 by Carolyn Gage The Emma Goldman Theatre Brigade, a radical feminist theatre group, is at it again - implementing their innovative lottery system to insure theatrical equality. They each draw the role they will play out of a hat each night before the show, but tonight there's a critic in the audience and t he sisterhood is put to the test when some of them don't draw the role they want. What follows is the trial of five women accused of denying Anastasia Romanov, the infamous daughter of Tsar Nicholas, of her identity where the audience becomes judge and jury. They rule on objections during the course of the play, creating a new show with every performance. A courtroom drama based on history wrapped in a backstage farce with a healthy dose of audience participation thrown in for good measure, The Anastasia Trials in the Court of Women presents a profoundly engaging excursion into the interactions of women who are survivors and abusers. Open: 12/03/08
Close: 12/14/08
Schedule:
Wednesdays - Saturdays 8PM, Sundays 3PM | Theater: Roy Arias Theaters - Off-Off Broadway Th
Address: 300 W. 43rd Street 5th Floor
New York, NY 10036
Google Maps | Cost:$18 General
Buy Tickets Online  or Call: SmartTix at 212-868-4444 |
|  | Theater: Titus Andronicus; Phare Play Productions: Office Hours; The Tempest; Fifi, Effie and the Donut Lady; Ensemble Studio Theater: Bluff and Berlin '45; Barrow Group Studios: Punchline; Theater-Studio: The Greatest Love; Instant Shakespeare Company: Othello, Hamlet, the entire cycle of history plays, The Vagina Monologues; Love Creek: Beyond the Horizon; Sauce for the Goose, Women of the Wild West, No Plums, 3 Widows and a Corpse, In a Wicked Mood. Television: Lipstick Jungle; Parco, P.I.; One Life to Live. Film: P.J.; Dance Salsa; numerous short films. Corporate trainer with Performance of a Lifetime. |  | Molly Church is a graduate of the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School. After taking a small hiatus from the theater, she is thrilled to be back on stage again and working alongside Christine and with such a tremendous group of actors. Some favorite roles include Judy in Callback, Caddie in Snake in Fridge and Helena in an all-female production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. She has also been featured in a handful of independent films, most recently Group Therapy and The Super Amazing Movie. And she is proud to have been cast in her first television show, working alongside Denis Leary in Rescue Me. Molly would like to thank her family and friends for their continuing support. |  | Ashley Diane Currie is ecstatic to be playing a woman again. She was educated at The Atlantic Acting Conservatory, where their use of common sense and vulgarity made her feel quite at home. She's studied with Scott Zigler, William H Macy and David Mamet. Her favorite roles have included Natasha in Make Believe (her most recent role), Cassius in Julius Caesar and Josephine in the short film The Duel with Elwood Gentry Productions, official selection Secret City Film Festival 2008. She has also acted with the sketch comedy groups spurn and Mind Bleach. Love to Mom, Dad, brothers David and Bryan, and everyone else who makes her smile. Remember, folks, don't throw flowers, just throw money! |
|  | Dianna Lora was born in Harlem raised in the Bronx and now is kickin' it old school back in Harlem. She graduated with a B.F.A from Ithaca College and is a proud Mercersburg Academy graduate. Her proudest moments were playing Princess Puffer in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Queen Margaret in Richard III, and a stint as a saucy maid at the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire where she learned high falling and swashbuckling. Dianna would like to thank her friends and family for their endless love and support! iSin Ti Soy Nada! |
|  | Recent theater credits include Gloves Off! Nabokov Vs. Wilson(Dolly) and The Visit (Ensemble) Payomet Performing Arts Center, Truro MA. 37 Stones or the Man who was a Quarry (Erin) Working Mans Clothes productions, NYC. A Boy's Life (Karen) The Zipper Factory, NYC. Gloves Off! (Dolly) and Left at the Harbor (Daughter) The W.H.A.T. Theater, Wellfleet MA. Film credits include A Woman Called Job (Cathy) One Brick Films. All the Queens Women (Nightshade) NYC. Currently a finalist for the Actors Studio. MFA The New School for Drama. Through Compassion, strength comes. Peace. |  | Brooklyn Scalzo is thrilled to continue her love affair with Phare Play. Brook has directed Dance at Bataan, The Food Chain, The Lady and the Clarinet, The Raft and is co-directing Phare Play's Pants on Fire. Some of her favorite acting credits include Sideman, Sweet Charity, Anything Goes, Romeo and Juliet, Parallel Lives, The Dumb Waiter, The Beaux Stratagem and Charlotte's Web. Proud member of Actor's Equity. She would like to thank Chris and her family and friends. |  | Sara began her professional career at the School of American Ballet, performing at the New York State Theater. While attending Smith College and graduating with a degree in Literature she performed throughout the Pioneer Valley with various companies and The Ohio Dance Theater. Upon returning to New York and hanging up her dancing shoes, she has studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, The Neighborhood Playhouse and The Matthew Corozine Studio. Favorite roles include Bonnie Jean in Brigadoon with the Heights Players, Babe in Crimes of the Heart, Valerie in Imagining Brad with the Matthew Corozine Players, and Julie in Pizza Man with Little Hibiscus Productions. She also originated the role of Mia in On The Rocks written by Dina Laura. She can be seen in several movies including Center Stage, Mona Lisa Smile, The Forgotten, as well as many student and independent films. |  | Nora is excited to be in her first show with Little Hibiscus Productions and to be working with director, Christine Vinh Weems again! You may have seen her in other NYC productions with the Summer Strawberry One-Act Festival (Francine in Jump! - Top 4 Finalist), Phare Play, Queens Players/Secret Theatre and Reality Aside Theatre. Previous regional productions include a staged radio play of Trip To Bountiful (as Thelma, costarring Tammy Grimes and Joel Vig), The Rainmaker (Lizzie), You Can't Take It With You (Essie), Steel Magnolias (Annelle Dupuy), Lend Me A Tenor (Maggie) and Toxic Avenger: The Musical (Sara). www.noravetter.com |  | Lexi recently performed in The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public and Around The World In A Bad Mood at the Duplex in NYC. She also performed with New York's Ziegfeld Club in the production, Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolic of 2008. A native Oklahoman, she performed in the 2007 centennial production of Oklahoma! at Lyric Theatre starring Kelli O'Hara. Favorite credits include: A Chorus Line (Val), Grease (Marty), Sweet Charity (Nickie), 42nd Street (Anytime Annie), Once Upon A Mattress (Winnifred), & A Midsummer Night's Dream (Titania). Lexi currently performs on Spirit Harbor Cruises out of Chelsea Piers & also enjoys performing for the troupes with the USO of Metropolitan New York. | |
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