The Tank Presents Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act 9/10-12

The Tank: home for emerging arts presents www.thetanknyc.org Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act

Friday, September 10, 2010; 7:30pm
Saturday, September 11, 2010; 9:30pm
Sunday, September 12, 2010; 3:00pm
$10

Location: The Tank at 354 W. 45th Street, New York, NY 10036
A, C, E, to 42nd Street; 1, 2, 3, S, 7 to Time Square

About The Show
Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act, written by Athol Fugard, explores the true events that occurred under the Immorality Act No 23. It is the story of what happens when the hope of love is not an option because of the color of skin. Declarations are not allowed in public without identification cards. They only exist when the lights go out. Directed by Nora DeVeau-Rosen.
1957. Immorality Act No 23
An extension of the IMMORALITY ACT of 1927 and its amendment of 1950, which forbade extra-marital intercourse between Whites and non- Whites.. It ""makes it an offence for a white person to have intercourse with a black person. It is also an offence to entice, solicit, or importune another to commit any of these acts or to attempt to do so or to conspire with another to commit such acts. The maximum penalty for this offence is seven years' imprisonment

Nora DeVeau-Rosen (Director) is a co-founder of the Invalids Theater Co., Nora is a recent Bard College graduate. Presently, Nora is the curator and director of a collaborative Monthly Reading Series that has been held at New York Theatre Workshop and Imageries Studio. She is currently the Education Assistant and TheatreLink Coordinator at the Manhattan Theatre Club. Her past has collaborations include theatres such as New York Theatre Workshop, The Ontological-Hysteric Theatre, Voice & Vision, PearlD'Amour, Theater for the New City, T. Schreiber, Wax-Factory, The Henry Street Arts Settlement, and Nora's Playhouse.

About The Tank
Founded in 2003, The Tank is a non-profit arts presenter whose mission is to provide a welcoming, creative, collaborative, and affordable environment for artists and activists engaged in the pursuit of new ideas. Through a wide range of low-cost, high-concept arts and public affairs programming, The Tank seeks to cultivate a new generation of audience for live performance, civic discourse, and the work of emerging artists.