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The Watsons (serialized, Facebook Live Reading)

The Watsons (serialized, Facebook Live Reading)08jul7:00 pm7:00 pm

Event Details

The Watsons
by Laura Wade
directed by Eric Tucker
Serialized Wednesdays, July 8, 15, 22 and 29 at 7PM
Produced by The Nora at Central Square Theater

A third of the way through The Watsons, based on Jane Austen’s unfinished novel, the characters discover they are… characters and not “real.” As they wrestle with a world turned topsy turvy and debate their right for self-determination, rebelling against a controlling playwright who has invaded their world, they embrace the people they want to be, not who society (and literature) has dictated.

Laura Wade’s existential comedy The Watsons produced by The Nora at Central Square Theater and is directed by Bedlam Artistic Director Eric Tucker. Featured in the cast are Dria Brown, Tucker, Lee Mikeska Gardner, Debra Wise, with a cameo from Emmy winner Gordon Clapp and a cast Zooming to you from several East Coast cities.

The Watsons will air on Wednesdays, July 8, 15, 22 and 29 at 7pm. If you miss one, it will be available for four consecutive days after it has been aired. This is a benefit reading with all proceeds going to our artists and The Welcome Project, working to build the collective power of immigrants.

We wish to express our gratitude to the Performers’ Unions:

ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION
AMERICAN GUILD OF MUSICAL ARTISTS
AMERICAN GUILD OF VARIETY ARTISTS
SAG-AFTRA

through Theatre Authority, Inc. for their cooperation in permitting the Artists to appear on this program.

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Speakers for this event

  • David Keohane

    David Keohane

  • Debra Wise

    Debra Wise

    Debra Wise (Director) (she/her) launched Underground Railway Theater in 1978 in Oberlin, Ohio with founding Artistic Director Wes Sanders, who recently completed a digital book documenting URT’s decades as a touring company (URTheaterEbook.com). URT created over 30 new works in the activist and collaborative spirit of its namesake, and venues ranging from Lincoln Center to colleges to community centers; titles included Sanctuary – The Spirit of Harriet Tubman, Home is Where, InTOXICating and The Christopher Columbus Follies. URT also received multiple commissions from the BSO to create shadow puppet spectacles which toured to orchestras across the country (Firebird, Creation of the World, Tempest). Wise specialized in interdisciplinary and site-specific work, collaborating with Boston’s Museum of Science (Aging Puzzle), New Center for Arts and Culture (Jewish Women and Their Salons), the Mary Baker Eddy Library, the MFA and the ICA (Art InterACTions), the Cambridge Arts Council (theater in dialogue with public art). In 2007, URT co-founded Central Square Theater with The Nora Theatre Company, and for 15 years Wise helmed Underground Railway in its first theater home. With playwrights Alan Brody and Jon Lipsky, as well as physicist/author Alan Lightman, she co-founded Catalyst Collaborative@MIT, CST’s science theater partnership with MIT, of which Ada and the Engine is a part. She also led partnerships with Mount Auburn Cemetery (Our Town) and the National Park Service (Roots of Liberty – The Haitian Revolution and the American Civil War, featuring actors, dancers, puppeteers, musicians, and guest artists Danny Glover and Edwidge Danticat). Under Wise’s leadership URT won several Elliot Norton awards including The Convert, Constellations, and Bedlam’s St. Joan. Acting appearances on the CST stage include The Half-Life of Marie Curie, Vanity Fair, Homebody, Copenhagen, Brundibar & But the Giraffe!, The Other Place, Distracted, The How and the Why, Einstein’s Dreams, From Orchids to Octopi: An Evolutionary Love Story, Yesterday Happened: Remembering H.M., Breaking the Code, Arabian Nights and A Christmas Memory. Appearances on other stages include Mistero Buffo (Poets’ Theatre); A Boston Marriage and Orson’s Shadow (New Repertory Theatre); Brooklyn Boy and People Places and Things (SpeakEasy Stage Co.); Doll’s House II and Escaped Alone (The Gamm Theatre); and Chosen Child (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre); in NYC, The Haggadah (The Public, with Julie Taymor). Her work as a playwright includes States of Grace, inspired by the work of Grace Paley; and Alice’s Adventures Underground, after Lewis Carroll. Wise left her Artistic Director position in 2022, and now serves as Program Director of Catalyst Collaborative@MIT. Upcoming projects include the Oberlin Wellington Rescue Theater Project in Ohio; the audiobook narration for Gregory Maguire’s Oracle of Maracoor; and being part of the acting ensemble for Angels in America at Central Square Theater in 2023.

    URL https://www.centralsquaretheater.org/people/debra-wise/#.Xrx9P8YpA0o

  • Eric Tucker

    Eric Tucker

  • Gordon Clapp

    Gordon Clapp

  • Jonah Cramer

    Jonah Cramer

  • Judy Molner

    Judy Molner

  • Lee Mikeska Gardner

    Lee Mikeska Gardner

  • Regina Aquino

    Regina Aquino

  • Samantha Nixon

    Samantha Nixon