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October 9 , 2007

Contact: Arts at Emory, Jessica Moore, 404-727-1687, jkmoore@emory.edu
365 Days/365 Plays: Danielle Mindess, dmindess@gmail.com, 404-433-6730

Theater Week at Emory Highlight is 365 Days/365 Plays “Walkabout” Production

In November of 2002, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Suzan-Lori Parks committed to writing one play each day for 365 consecutive days. When the work was completed, producer Bonnie Metzgar suggested that the play cycle should be performed and from that the idea of “365 Days/365 Plays,” a yearlong national festival, came into being. Since November of 2006 the plays have now been premiered in fourteen cities and communities around the country. More than 600 theaters in Atlanta, Chicago, New York City, Los Angeles, Colorado, Seattle, San Francisco, Austin, Greater Texas, Washington D.C., Minnesota, the Southeast, the Northeast and a university network have participated in the largest theater collaboration in U.S. history.

Almost a year later “365 Days/365 Plays” continues at Emory University, where the Playwriting Center of Theater Emory serves as a hub and organizer of the Atlanta festival along with the Alliance Theater. Emory’s Transforming Community Project will present week 49 of the play cycle on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2007 at 1:30 p.m. and 3 p.m. on Emory’s quadrangle. Week 50 will be presented by the actors of Theater Emory, Emory Theater Studies department and student theater groups, along with Emory alums throughout the campus from Monday, Oct. 22, 2007 through Saturday, Oct. 27, 2007. On Saturday, Oct. 27, the groups involved in the presentation of week 50 will come together for an evening of two-hour “walkabouts,” showcases that will move from one location to another nearby location as each of the week’s plays are presented in order. The event begins at the Schwartz Center at 4 p.m. and again at 6 p.m., with a reception to follow in the Schwartz Center, Theater Laboratory.

Emory’s Transforming Community Project, an initiative that explores Emory’s racial history, will involve cross-racial groups of staff, faculty, students, administrators and alumni to present their installment of “365 Days/365 Plays.” Theater at Emory will use “365 Days/365 Plays” as the centerpiece of their week highlighting Theater at Emory. The groups involved include: Theatre Emory, the Department of Theater Studies, Ad Hoc (student musical theater), Starving Artist Productions (student non-musical theater), Rathskellar (student improvisation troupe) and alumnae. Additionally each group will work with a non-theater organization or department on campus, creating a campus-wide cross pollination with the arts. For more information visit www.365days365plays.com.  or call 404-433-6730.

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EMORY’S TRANSFORMING COMMUNITIES PROJECT

Launched in 2005-06, the Transforming Community Project (TCP) seeks to mobilize individuals in every sector of Emory University to engage in creating a stronger campus community through the process of establishing a reflective, fact-based understanding of this institution’s racial history and current experiences of race. This history will be rooted in Emory’s involvement in African American enslavement, segregation, integration, and the world that blacks and whites created together in the South.

THEATER EMORY

Theater Emory is the producing organization of Emory University and is affiliated with the Department of Theater Studies. It is a member of the Atlanta Coalition of Performing Arts and operates under a season agreement with Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.

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