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Round House Theatre Announces Silver Spring Series 2010/11
Theatre, dance, and music by Montgomery County and DC metro area groups & artists at Round House Theatre Silver Spring
Happenstance Theater, with Mark Jaster & Sabrina Mandell
Contradiction Dance • theHegira • ClanceyWorks Dance Company
Forum Theatre returns as theatre company-in-residence,
with Contradiction Dance as dance company-in-residence
(SILVER SPRING, MD) Round House Theatre announces the return of its popular Silver Spring Series to its black box theatre in downtown Silver Spring. In Silver Spring Series 2010/11, Round House presents an eclectic, affordable lineup of theatre, dance, and music programs by dynamic groups and artists from across Montgomery County and the DC metropolitan area.
“Round House Theatre Silver Spring has something different happening every day – performances, rehearsals, classes, and other activities. This intimate, flexible space has proven to be a perfect location for the dynamic lineup of performances in our Silver Spring Series. In the Silver Spring Series, Round House uses its resources to encourage and further the work of artists from across the area. We want to share their work – and the excitement of live theatre – with the entire community,” said Blake Robison, Round House Theatre’s Producing Artistic Director.
Tickets for performances in the Silver Spring Series are $15 ($10 for Round House subscribers, senior citizens, patrons age 30 and under, and groups of 10 or more). Tickets are available by calling Round House Theatre at 240.644.1100 or online at roundhousetheatre.org.
Performances are at Round House Theatre Silver Spring, 8641 Colesville Road (next to the AFI Silver Theatre). The Silver Spring station on Metro’s red line is approximately three blocks away. The restaurants and attractions of downtown Silver Spring are around the corner.
Silver Spring Series 2010/11, presented by Round House Theatre
Round House’s Silver Spring Series presents
Cabaret Macabre
By Happenstance Theater
With Mark Jaster and Sabrina Mandell
October 29 & 30 at 8pm, October 31 at 2pm, November 4 – 6 at 8pm, November 7, 2010 at 2pm
Pay-What-You-Can performance Nov. 4. PWYC tickets available 1 hour before the show at the box office in Silver Spring. Cash/exact change only. 2 tickets per person.
Inspired by Amphigorey, this dark little Cabaret will bring out the Victorian Gothic in us all. A Dickensian romp through the damp cobbled alleys of poetry, variety, and song.
Round House’s Silver Spring Series presents
Living, Breathing, Human Organism
By Contradiction Dance
November 19 & 20, 2010 at 8pm
Living, Breathing, Human Organism? explores how we have lost touch. Our preoccupation with our thoughts leads us to detach from both our physical self and that self within the environment. Despite this, our daily lives play out in a menagerie of animalistic tendencies that are telling in both dark and humorous ways.
Round House’s Silver Spring Series presents
Lyme Park
By theHegira
January 7 & 8 at 8pm, January 9 at 2pm, January 13 – 15 at 8pm, January 16, 2011 at 2pm
Pay-What-You-Can performance Jan. 7. PWYC tickets available 1 hour before the show at the box office in Silver Spring. Cash/exact change only. 2 tickets per person.
Lyme Park, written by playwright, actress, and choreographer Nandita Shenoy, is an Austonian Romance of an Indian nature inspired by Jane Austen’s “Northanger Abbey”.
Round House’s Silver Spring Series presents
Embracing the “AND”
By ClancyWorks Dance Company
April 15 & 16, 2011 at 8pm
ClancyWorks Dance Company, one of Maryland’s most uniquely innovative modern dance companies, premieres Embracing the “AND” at RHT Silver Spring. In a world where we are often asked to choose or define things between this Or that (body or mind, black or white, cooperation or competition, self or other, liberal or conservative); Clancy’s choreography probes the nature of polar dichotomies in an attempt to seek a reconciliatory AND.
Round House’s Silver Spring Series presents
The Disorder of Things
By Contradiction Dance
April 22 & 23, 2011 at 8pm
In the black and white world of cultural, medical, and religious institutions, there is little room for individuality. Through dance, theatre, spoken word and live music, The Disorder of Things celebrates the shades of grey.
Other Round House Performances and Programs in Silver Spring
Round House presents The Sarah Metzger Memorial Play 2011
Androcles and the Lion
By Aurand Harris
March 25 at 7:30pm, March 26 at 3pm, April 1 & 2 at 7:30pm, April 3, 2011 at 3pm
Androcles and the Lion is a prize-winning, popular play the whole family will enjoy. In Commedia tradition, a group of strolling players set up their stage and give a performance. Using authentic staging and stock characters of Commedia – the miserly Pantalone, the bragging Captain, the romantic Lovers, the trickster Arlinquin, plus an endearing Lion – Aesop’s fable becomes a colorful theatrical experience.
The Sarah Metzger Memorial Play provides high school students from Montgomery County and the DC area the resources and guidance to mount a theatrical production at Round House under the mentorship of professional theatre artists and practitioners.
Round House presents
Heyday Players Performance
April 11, 2011 – Free
The Heyday Players, our performance troupe of senior actors, are dedicated to enriching the lives of senior citizens by channeling their tremendous spirit, talent, and life experience into theatrical performance and community engagement.
Other performances and programs coming to Round House Theatre Silver Spring and the Education Center
In addition to the shows in the Silver Spring Series, Round House’s facilities in Silver Spring will host a wide range of performances and activities during the 2010/11 season.
Forum Theatre thrilled Silver Spring audiences in Fall 2009 with its Helen Hayes Award-winning production of Angels in America and returned in early 2010 with Amazons and Their Men. Forum returns to Round House Theatre Silver Spring in 2010/11 as theatre company-in-residence with three new productions: Scorched by Wajdi Mouawad, translated by Linda Gaboriau (September 30 – October 23, 2010); One Flea Spare by Naomi Wallace (February 17 – March 12, 2011); bobrauschenbergamerica by Charles Mee (June 2 – 25, 2011). For more information, visit www.forumtd.org/.
In addition to performing at the black box in the Silver Spring Series, Contradiction Dance (Round House’s dance company-in-residence) will again be holding classes at Round House’s Education Center on nearby Wayne Avenue. For information about Contradiction Dance, click www.contradictiondance.com/.
Round House’s artistic and community partners – including ArtStream’s Silver Spring Inclusive Company, Lumina Studio Theatre, and the AFI/Discovery Documentary Film Festival – will be using Round House Theatre Silver Spring for their performances. LANGO will be using the Education Center for its programs once again this year.
Round House’s Education Center is located at 925 Wayne Avenue in downtown Silver Spring. For information about the wide range of education and outreach activities offered by Round House at the Education Center and throughout Montgomery County and the metro area, visit roundhousetheatre.org/education.
