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August Schulenburg's new play, The Lesser Seductions of History, follows ten characters through each year of the 1960's.

August Schulenburg's new play, The Lesser Seductions of History, follows ten characters through each year of the 1960's.

August Schulenburg's new play, The Lesser Seductions of History, follows ten characters through each year of the 1960's.

Flux's 2009/10 season, 'A Season of Give and Take' begins with Adam Szymkowicz's PRETTY THEFT, a play about ballerinas, boxes and the dangers of beauty. After losing her father, Allegra falls under the wing of bad girl Suzy, only to find an unexpected friendship with Joe, an autistic savant. When things between them take a violent turn, Allegra and Suzy escape on a cross-country trip. The girls end up befriending Marco, a mysterious thief who claims he cannot be caught. Newest Flux member Angela Astle stages this unsettling play from the critically acclaimed playwright of Nerve, Food for Fish and Incendiary.

Flux's 2009/10 season, 'A Season of Give and Take' begins with Adam Szymkowicz's PRETTY THEFT, a play about ballerinas, boxes and the dangers of beauty. After losing her father, Allegra falls under the wing of bad girl Suzy, only to find an unexpected friendship with Joe, an autistic savant. When things between them take a violent turn, Allegra and Suzy escape on a cross-country trip. The girls end up befriending Marco, a mysterious thief who claims he cannot be caught. Newest Flux member Angela Astle stages this unsettling play from the critically acclaimed playwright of Nerve, Food for Fish and Incendiary.

Following the success of their last season where they were named one of nytheatre.com's 'People of the Year', Flux Theatre Ensemble will produce 3 plays in its 2009/10 season. Last year, Flux's A Midsummer Night's Dream was a Backstage Magazine 'pick' and was called 'immediately accessible and thematically adventurous' by Theatermania. For their New York Fringe production of Other Bodies, Heather Cohn won a Fringe Excellence Award for Outstanding Direction and Flux's ambitious Angel Eaters Trilogy received accolades from critics for being 'wildly ambitious', 'a veritable festival of theatre' and 'a model for other brave artists and production companies.'

The New York International Fringe Festival, The Strollers, and Madeline Walter will present the New York premiere of Madeline Walter's Mary Brigit Poppleton is Writing a Memoir from Friday, August 10th through Sunday, August 26th.

FLUX Theatre Ensemble will present The Dream Project, an exploration of Pedro Calderón de la Barca's La Vida es Sueño through a series of staged readings of adaptations of Calderón's masterpiece