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| For Immediate Release: November 8, 2006 |
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Diverse City Theater Presents Acclaimed Canadian Playwright Rahul Varma's COUNTER OFFENCE on Monday, November 13th at 7PM NEW YORK -- Diverse City Theater Company ("DCT") announces a reading presentation of Rahul Varma's play, "Counter Offence" directed by Brian Rhinehart, as part of its Green Room Series ("GRS") 2006, on Monday, November 13th at 7PM at the New Georges located at 520 8th Avenue, 3rd Floor, in New York City. Launched in 2005, GRS is DCT's annual reading festival of new works that tackle cultural diversity by emerging playwrights. Translated into French and Italian, "Counter Offence" has been produced in Canada and Italy and will make its New York debut presentation in DCT's reading series. DCT is a non-profit theater developing and producing organization based in New York City and the producer of the acclaimed festival of one-acts at Theatre Row, FOUR PLAYS: The Equality Playwrights Festival, in August 2006. Set in Montreal at present time and filled with characters of South Asian, Black, Iranian, White Anglo and Francophone backgrounds, "Counter Offence" is a play about the collision of moral and cultural values: the struggle to end violence against women comes in conflict with the struggle to end racism. Of "Counter Offence," Gaetan Charlebois of the Montreal Mirror, wrote: "... Varma tackles all the hot button issues here and does it with no little amount of imagination, intellectual brilliance and beauty." Rahul Varma has been awarded two Juror's Awards at the Quebec Drama Festival and the Montreal English Critics Circle Award for intercultural theatre. Among his other produced plays are "Trading Injuries," "No Man's Land," and "Land Where Trees Talk." He is Artistic Director of Teesri Duniya Theatre of Montreal, Canada. Equally well-known as a journalist, he writes passionately about writers of colour, especially South Asian Canadian writers, and Canadian literature of the South Asian diaspora. In addition to "Counter Offence," Varma, who writes in Hindi and English, has just written his most current play, "Bhopal," translated into French by Paul Lefebvre, produced in Montreal and Quebec City this year. Brian Rhinehart, director of the reading is a member of the 2006 Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, and was Resident Artist at the Kraine Theater from 2003 to 2005. In 2001 he was named Best Director of the New York International Fringe Festival for Einstein's Dreams, and in 1998 he was awarded Best Director for "Escape Artist" in the "Drop Your Shorts: Short Play Festival," at the Trilogy Theatre. Rhinehart holds an MFA in directing from The Actors Studio Drama School and a PhD from the University of Florida. Suggested donation: $10. |
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Diverse City Theater Company
Diverse City Theater Co. Inc., is an independent not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization-run by artist playwrights, directors and actors - that focuses on promoting diversity and multiculturalism in the theater arts. Its mission is to commission, develop and produce original plays that explore and examine diversity issues in our national culture thereby creating multiculturally fluent theater audiences, as well as advocate the non-traditional casting of actors. Formed in 2003, Diverse City Theater Co., Inc. is based in New York City. For more information, visit the organization's website at www.diversecitytheater.org. |
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