Ryan Tracy's ALL ABOUT MARRIAGE In Page to Stage at Dixon Place, 5/23

The Page To Stage reading series at Dixon Place (NYC) will present an excerpt of ALL ABOUT MARRIAGE, the latest play by RYAN TRACY on May 23, 2011 at 7:30pm. Featuring Mikéah Ernest Jennings (The Shipment; Bellona, Destroyer of Cities), William Dixon Popp (Monodramas at New York City Opera; OTHER WORLDS), and Michelle Mola (Rumble Ghost). The reading is $10 and also features "I'm Miserable But Change Scares Me" by Maxwell and Milo Cramer. For more information, please visit www.dixonplace.org. 

All About Marriage is an epic play on how our lives, friendships and families are interconnect by our marriage practices and beliefs, and how the persistence of legal discrimination within the institution of marriage undermines human relationships. The play opens with a Prelude, where a young couple W (Michelle Mola) and M (William Dixon Popp) ironically convince themselves to fast-forward from one-night stand to the wedding altar. Then, Act I, Scene 1 - "Prenuptial" opens with Abbie (Mola), a young, liberal 30-something on the day of her wedding, which is being held at a community center in her suburban hometown. She is being attended by gay and "gay married" best friend Bennie (Mikéah Ernest Jennings), who is acting as a dutiful Co-Maid of Honor. When Abbie casually admits that she never really wanted to get married, she and Bennie enter into a conversation about the realities of marriage, and the differences between societal and familial expectations for straight and gay friends.

The reading of All About Marriage will be directed by Ryan Tracy.

ABOUT RYAN TRACY
Ryan Tracy is a writer, performer and composer. As a theater artist, he has presented work at The Brick, Dixon Place and Abrons Arts Center. His theater works include Ian & Ethan: A Love Play (in progress), All About Marriage, and OTHER WORLDS: A play in two parts, inspired by Sarah Schulman's "Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences. His music and opera (Collective Opera Company) have been performed at venues throughout New York, including The Kitchen, Park Avenue Armory, Dance Theater Workshop, PS122, La MaMa, Danspace, and Cornell University. Ryan has written music criticism for the Orange County Register. He is a contributor to The New York Press, and has been published by the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review. In 2007, Ryan foundedcountercritic.com, an alternative forum for contemporary arts criticism. Last year, he was one of eight writing fellows to participate in the Performa 09 biennial. Ryan has fulfilled residencies at Yaddo and the Edward Albee Foundation.

(Photo credit: Queralt Jorba; by Michael Hart)

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