Providing realistic scenarios and welcome advice on how to. Were all living the family dynamic, as parents, as children, as siblings, uncles and aunts. Detroit is a fresh, offbeat look at what happens when we dare to open ourselves up to something new. Dramatists play service, one of the premier playlicensing and theatrical publishing agencies in the world, was formed in 1936 to foster national opportunities for playwrights by publishing affordable editions of their plays and handling the performance rights to these works. She is the recipient of the 2008 alpert award for the arts in theater and the 2011 steinberg playwright award. Detroit runs through oct 28, 2012 only at playwrights horizons, new york.
Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Detroit is melodrama about couples near the edge, and one. The play won the obie award for best new american play in 20. The once houseproud and active burb is divided between the haves, the have nots and the never hadseveryone clinging to their houses as if to a life raft.
Apocalyptic, strange and wonderfully entertaining, lisa damour s hide town, created with company members from infernal bridegroom productions, is everything experimental theater should be. Sep 15, 2014 cap t artistic director mark pickell was lucky enough to speak with pulitzer prize nominated playwright lisa damour about her play detroit. Lisa damours detroit lacks horsepower by michael feingold. She recently premiered terrible things, a dancetheater piece created with katie pearl and choreographer emily johnson, at ps122 in new york. The best way to fight with a teenager the new york times. Damour draws on decades of experience and the latest research to reveal the seven distinctand absolutely normaldevelopmental transitions that turn girls into grownups, including parting with childhood, contending with adult authority, entering the romantic world, and caring for herself. At motherlode, lead writer and editor kj dellantonia invites contributors and commenters to explore how our families affect our lives, and how the news affects our familiesand all families. Scenes from detroit at playwrights horizons youtube. Detroit, with amy ryan and david schwimmer the new york times. Lisa damour directs the center for research on girls at laurel school, maintains a private psychotherapy practice, consults to schools nationally, is a clinical instructor at case western reserve university, and serves on the board of the eating disorders network. She shares a little about its origin, how its changed, and what it is like having her next play produced on broadway. With rich characterizations that unearth the desperation in all human beings when it comes to financial stability and surviving, this production is a. Its as if a big idea was slapped on top of a roiling personal and social drama.
Detroit by lisa damour overdrive rakuten overdrive. Cap t artistic director mark pickell was lucky enough to speak with pulitzer prize nominated playwright lisa damour about her play detroit. Other recent projects include swimming cities of switchback sea a performance for a fleet of seven handmade boats on. Lisa damour is a playwright, performer, and former carnival queen from new orleans. Possible comedic monologues sodom and gomorrah hell scribd. Detroit received its new york city premiere at playwrights horizons, opening on august 24, 2012. Lisa damour writes plays for theater and creates sitespecific performances. Hyde park theatre 511 w43rd st recently laid off, ben starts an ebusiness from his suburban home while his. Mar 22, 2015 while the playwright lisa damour prepares her airline highway for new york, shes developing milton, a show based on interviews with residents of american towns. Pearldamours work has been presented at ps122, here arts center and the walker arts center and the kitchen, among others. Welcome to well family, well s new home for news about parenting, child health and relationships plus advice from our experts to help every family. He especially loves to play it when his guests include people from different facets of his liferelative strangers to each other who might need an icebreaker in order to really. Therefore detroit is a definitely stageable play, fun to act, entertaining and, as any good play should be, not easily adapted to film or television. The street names in lisa damours play detroit sound sunny and full of promise, but the reality is dark and scary for the inhabitants of this firstring motor city suburb.
Scenes feature darren pettie, amy ryan, and sarah sokolovic. As a current student on this bumpy collegiate pathway, i stumbled upon course hero, where i can find study resources for nearly all my courses, get online help from tutors 247, and even share my old projects, papers, and lecture notes with other students. In lisa damours play detroit, a pulitzer prize finalist at playwrights horizons, a couple who fear they are sliding out of their economic class meet a. Detroit by lisa damour directed by anne marie cummings assistant director chris dell corporate sponsor the fraternal order of eagles the fraternal order of eagles, an international nonprofit organization, unites fraternal ly in the spirit of liberty, truth, justice, and equality, to make human life more desirable. Feb 09, 2016 ruminations and reminiscences of an authornow in his 70sabout fatherhood, writing, and death. Detroit received its world premiere at steppenwolf theatre. With detroit, playwright lisa damour wins acclaim by. In a first ring suburb outside a midsize american city, ben and mary fire up the grill to welcome the new neighbors whove moved into the longempty house. Detroit, with amy ryan and david schwimmer the new. Lisa damour juggles airline highway and milton, a tale. This area premier of lisa damours detroit falls on the recent news of the city of detroit declaring bankruptcy and is the perfect examination of the nations current economic crisis. Pettie, ryan, schwimmer, and sokolovic get neighborly. Join us to talk about education, child care, mealtime, sports, technology, the workfamily balance and. New york times best selling author damour pulls back the curtain on the teenage years and shows why your teens erratic and confusing behavior is actually healthy, necessary, and natural.
Originally produced by chicagos steppenwolf theatre, lisa damours detroit made its uk premiere at the national theatre, london, in may 2012. Oct 15, 20 detroit is a fresh, offbeat look at what happens when we dare to open ourselves up to something new. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the. Damour draws on decades of experience and the latest research to reveal the seven developmental stages that turn adolescents into. In a firstring suburb just outside a city that might be detroit, ben and mary see sudden signs of life at the deserted house next door and invite their new. Damour can write excellent and funny dialogue as well as craft interesting, realistic characters. The play premiered at the steppenwolf theatre company in chicago in 2010 and subsequently ran offbroadway at playwrights horizons in fall 2012. Sep 19, 2012 in lisa damours play detroit, a pulitzer prize finalist at playwrights horizons, a couple who fear they are sliding out of their economic class meet a couple who have other problems. Steppenwolfs detroit headed to broadwaythe renowned steppenwolf theatre is making another trip to broadway. In the 201516 season, her play airline highway will be produced at steppenwolf, directed by joe mantello, and then transfer to manhattan theater clubs broadway stage. Its a fantasy moment, sure, but the womans screams as she yanks the plant free sound painfully true. With katie pearl, she is coartistic director of pearldamour, a company that makes collaborative, often sitespecific performances.
While the playwright lisa damour prepares her airline highway for new york, shes developing milton, a show based on interviews with residents of american towns. How going back to simpler times can help teens destress. I teach playwriting, collaboration, workshops on interdisciplinary performance and serve as a mentor to individual playwrights and groups looking to devise their own work. Possible comedic monologues detroit by lisa damour sharon. Damour directs laurel schools center for research on girls, maintains a private. Sep 18, 20 the street names in lisa damours play detroit sound sunny and full of promise, but the reality is dark and scary for the inhabitants of this firstring motor city suburb. Under pressure confronting the epidemic of stress and anxiety in girls by lisa damour hardcover, 288 pages, published 2019 by ballantine books isbn. Lisa damour is a playwright and interdisciplinary artist. Guiding teenage girls through the seven transitions into adulthood in hand, raising teens is just a bit less frightening. Lisa damour guides parents through teen turbulence in. Lisa damour is a psychologist, bestselling author, monthly new york times columnist, and regular contributor to cbs news she blends years of experience with the latest research developments to provide sound, practical guidance to children and adolescents as well as their parents, teachers, and advocates.
Join facebook to connect with lisa damour and others you may know. Three days and nights in what might be the last saloon on the edge of an arctic texas. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Lisa damour s play detroit is a dark metaphor for the disintegration of american society. Untangled guiding teenage girls through the seven transitions into adulthood by lisa damour. Sep 19, 2012 lisa damours detroit lacks horsepower by michael feingold.
Lisa damours detroit lacks horsepower the village voice. Lisa damour on detroit my brother chris, the quintessential charming new orleans host, has a game he often starts at parties after downing an oldfashioned or two. Lisa damours play detroit is a dark metaphor for the disintegration of american society. Her play detroit was a finalist for the pulitzer prize for drama. Psychologist and cbs news contributor lisa damour takes an indepth look at the research on teen stress in her latest new york times article, when a. The broadwaybound play, detroit, by lisa damour, is on the list of finalists for the 33rd annual awards. The acting is very good, and annie kauffmans direction is sharp and gritty, but this script sometimes appears almost like a tv melodrama. Hyde park theatre 511 w43rd st recently laid off, ben starts an ebusiness from his suburban home while his wife, mary, keeps up with the joneses. It was a finalist for the pulitzer and susan smith blackburn prizes.
Her book is grounded in the most uptodate research yet reads as a practical and heartfelt guide. About halfway through lisa damour s the cataract, we see a woman pull an iris out of her eye. Not the eyeball iris, mind you, but the flower, longstemmed and purple. It was a finalist for the pulitzer and susan smith blackburn. The writer she is bears little resemblance to the lisa damour who, since the joyful noise for detroit, has garnered acclaim and major prizes a. Dps offers an extensive list of titles that includes many of the most significant plays of the past century. The once houseproud and active burb is divided between the haves, the have nots and the never hadseveryone clinging to their houses as if to. Detroit is melodrama about couples near the edge, and. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading detroit. She is the author of numerous academic papers and chapters related to education and child development. In lisa damour s play detroit, a pulitzer prize finalist at playwrights horizons, a couple who fear they are sliding out of their economic class meet a couple who have other problems. Thoughtful and funny, the oneact speeds across a futuristic.
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