PlayCo is proud to be joining theaters across the country and around the world in creating SHINSAI: THEATERS FOR JAPAN. Shinsai [SHEEN-sigh] means great quake in Japanese.
On Sunday, March 11, 2012, the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake in Japan, theaters nationwide will join together in solidarity with our fellow Japanese theater artists. A menu of 10-minute plays and songs have been donated by major American and Japanese artists such as Edward Albee, Naomi Iizuka, Yoji Sakate,and Stephen Sondheim for this one-day-only event. Each theater will craft their own event, drawing from the donated plays and from work generated by their own resident artists. Presenters will encourage their audiences to donate relief funds (any and all amounts) to the Japan Playwrights Association. The funds will then be disbursed to the Japanese theater community affected by the disaster.
We want YOU to be a part of this important event. To get started: (1) go to www.tcg.org/shinsai/ to register your interest, check out the FAQs, and read the plays; (2) blast this information to your community; and (3) create your own SHINSAI event in your theater/town/university. The event can be fully-staged in a proper theater, presented as a reading, performed in a lobby or public space—anything goes!
If you are interested in getting involved in this exciting event and have any questions at all, please email japan@tcg.org. We will sign you up for our alert list and make sure you are updated as we move forward. If you are looking for other theaters in your area to work with on an event, please inform us and we will do our best to help facilitate that collaboration.
SAVE THE DATE: On Saturday, January 14th @ 3pm we will be hosting an information session in the LuEsther Lounge at The Public Theater as part of the Under the Radar festival. If you are in the area, please join us to learn more about the event and how to take part.
Contributing artists include: Edward Albee, Fred Ebb, Philip Kan Gotanda, Richard Greenberg, John Guare, Oriza Hirata, Naomi Iizuka, Nen Ishihara, John Kander, Shoji Kokami, Tony Kushner, Toshiki Okada, Suzan-Lori Parks, Yoji Sakate, Kumiko Shinohara, Stephen Sondheim, Toshiro Suzue, Jeanine Tesori, John Weidman, and Doug Wright.
Participating organizations include: Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Atlantic Theater Company, Cooper Union, Dramatists Guild Fund, Japan Playwrights Association, Japan Society, Lincoln Center Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York Theatre Workshop, The Play Company, Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theater, The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, and Theatre Communications Group.
Looking forward to joining with you on March 11, 2012 for this very worthy cause!
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