Anna Rak News

Owl & Pussycat Theatre Company presents Dreaming of Sexual Healing, Sort Of... written by Theo Salter, directed by Anna Rak, video editing by Jami Burrows, starring Ashley Ford, Adam Dorsey, Christine Lane, Sean Dillingham and Spencer Irwin, premiered this weekend at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival virtual series, Online@theSpaceUK.

Los Angeles based, Owl & Pussycat Theatre Company will present two worldwide premieres with Online@theSpaceUK, an Edinburgh Fringe Virtual Play Festival this August: Front Window premieres Aug 15th and Dreaming of Sexual Healing, Sort Of... premieres Aug 22nd.

On Sunday, May 31st, 2020, Owl & Pussycat Theatre Co. and Eastern Bridge Theatre Troupe present the first ever Virtual Edition of The Crossover Series with a free workshop performance of a new play written specifically for the live-streaming platform, DREAMING OF SEXUAL HEALING, SORT OF by Theo Salter, directed by Anna Rak, featuring performances by Adam Dorsey, Ashley Ford, Christine Lane, Sean Dillingham & Spencer Irwin - streamed Live on Facebook.

On March 8th, 2020, Owl & Pussycat Theatre Co. and Eastern Bridge Theatre Troupe present the first edition of The Crossover Series with a free play reading of Ashes, Ashes by Kevin Christopher Snipes, featuring performances by Anna Rak, Ashley Ford, Jose Infante, Vinn Sander and directed by Karen Louisa Linton - Molly Malone's Pub, 575 S. Fairfax Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90036 at 4:30pm.

After successfully producing their first two monthly events, Eastern Bridge Theatre Troupe is back with their Third Edition of 'Foreign Voices are Us'. 'Be Celebrated, Not Tolerated - A Reading of Short Plays' will be a collection of plays, music, and stories centered around celebrating our differences. Spend your Saturday laughing, crying, and sharing in a community where our differences bring us together and help us thrive.

Eastern Bridge continues in the telling of otherwise unheard stories with both a new board of directors and an exciting monthly series. Anna Rak is joined by new members Kanja Grobler (Co-Artistic Director) and Irina Bravo (Director of Design and Marketing) to lead the Troupe into a successful new season - a goal that, no matter how diverse its parts, brings these individuals together with unified purpose.

Returning for this special performance after it marked Eastern Bridge's New York debut, The Story of Two Poets is the theatrical adaptation of Listy na wyczerpanym papierze ( The Letters on Depleted Paper ), a collection of love letters and poems written during what can only be described as a fairy-tale romance which began in 1964. Osiecka, who wrote the lyrics for many of Poland's most popular songs and Przybora, who created the notable Elderly Gentlemen's Cabaret, sent many secret correspondences to each other over the course of their two-year romance; this would have remained a secret, had their children not discovered their letters. In 2010, Agata Passent and Kot Przybora published Listy na wyczerpanym papierze and gave new life to this beautiful relationship that Eastern Bridge now presents to audiences.

Do you ever think about how much of this life is planned, sculpted by human hands to go the way we desire it to? How, no matter what we have been taught or the values we hold dear to our hearts, there will always be something beyond our reach that we cannot control - something we cannot ever predict will happen? Factor in the variables of chance, fate, human error and the like, and life begins to go slightly off the course we may have imagined it to follow. Once a child leaves the arms of a loving mother to venture out into the world, it is a chance taken as to what will happen next. In what is both alarming and exciting, the possibilities life will give to us are infinite - they do not follow a guidebook, and as values are tested and tried is when the 'self' is truly formed. This is the wonderful lesson that STRINGS teaches its audience so well.

Written by Anna Rak and Palmyra Mattner, and under the direction of Kira Kull, STRINGS will soon take the stage at the Access Theatre in Tribeca for its New York premiere; the show also marks EBTT's second NY production. A theater troupe of unique origins and aspirations, Eastern Bridge strives to bring together the voices, experiences and talents of those who are culturally or ethically different, but collaborate for the purpose of providing a unique theatrical experience. By giving expression to these foreign voices, the cast, creative team and theater-goers alike now have this special opportunity to bring what is different together to share in the purity of a mother's love.