he will update you about:
the GIGANTIC Premier hosted by GENART
and filming SALT directed by Philip Noyce
rehearsals in Trenton for a new play.
Month: March 2009
Erica Berg reading of “Take What is Yours” at NYTW 3/23
Take What Is Yours
Created and Performed by Erica Berg & Paula McGonagle
Written by Erica Berg
Directed by Sarna Lapine
Date: March 23, 2009
Time: 3pm – 5pm
What: New York Theatre Workshop’s “Mondays @ 3” Series
The reading will be followed by a feedback session to benefit the artistic development of the piece, moderated by Linda Chapman. **Please RSVP as space is limited.
Take What Is Yours is a duet for theatre based on the work of suffragists Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, who saw to it that American women got the right to vote in 1919. The text is composed entirely from original source material (essays, speeches, articles, letters), and tells Alice and Lucy’s remarkable and surprisingly-unknown story, in their own words. Utterly devoted to the cause, they went from lobbying and demonstrating, to arrest and imprisonment, to hunger-striking and force-feedings, and to the eventual release from prison and vindication in the passage of the national amendment.
Erica Berg & Paula McGonagle received a development grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and further developed the piece through a residency at Naropa University.
A bit about us:
Amelia Workman cast in Young Jean Lee’s King Lear
Erica is currently starring as Antigone in Ripe Time’s “Fire Throws” at 3LD
“… the haunting Erica Berg… imbued with an intense calmness, instantly captivates…” – Theatermania
“… marvelously intense… the mature and clearer-eyed Berg… bracingly unapologetic” – Talkin’ Broadway
“… the impressive Erica Berg… creates an extra mythic distance…” -Backstage
“Erica Berg leads the production with disciplined calm… as the omniscient Antigone…” – Off Off Online
“…visually stunning adaptation… an Antigone who wonders if her political defiance was worth all the bloodshed…” – Time Out