tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20522161287003809532024-03-14T05:27:46.782-04:00Gabrielle MaiselsMy new website is at www.gabriellemaisels.com -- there's a link below to the right if you'd like to check out all the current excitement.Gabrielle Maiselshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04381693786540096601noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2052216128700380953.post-36324819468849894862011-09-14T11:21:00.000-04:002011-09-14T11:21:08.429-04:00It's a mystery.<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:DocumentProperties> <o:Template>Normal.dotm</o:Template> <o:Revision>0</o:Revision> <o:TotalTime>0</o:TotalTime> <o:Pages>1</o:Pages> <o:Words>426</o:Words> <o:Characters>2430</o:Characters> <o:Company>Christopher Newport University</o:Company> <o:Lines>20</o:Lines> <o:Paragraphs>4</o:Paragraphs> <o:CharactersWithSpaces>2984</o:CharactersWithSpaces> <o:Version>12.0</o:Version> </o:DocumentProperties> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing> <w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing> <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:DontAutofitConstrainedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> </w:Compatibility> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="276"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]> <style>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><u><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001691/"><span>Philip Henslowe</span></a>:</u> Mr. Fennyman, allow me to explain about the theatre business. The natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. <span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><br />
</span><u><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0929489/"><span>Hugh Fennyman</span></a></u>: So what do we do? <span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><br />
</span><u><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001691/"><span>Philip Henslowe</span></a></u>: Nothing. Strangely enough, it all turns out well. <span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><br />
</span><u><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0929489/"><span>Hugh Fennyman</span></a>:</u> How? <span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><br />
</span><u><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001691/"><span>Philip Henslowe</span></a>:</u> I don't know. It's a mystery. <span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> .........................</o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">This is one of my favorite scenes from Shakespeare in Love. Mostly because over and over again it proves true. This summer has taught me an immense amount about the actual mechanisms of getting a play produced. And that’s within a festival setting. I’m sure if you’re truly starting from scratch, the obstacles seem even more insurmountable.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Watching Gabrielle work and create the characters that she plays throughout <a href="http://www.ticketweb.com/snl/Search.action?query=Bongani">Bongani</a> was a mesmerizing experience. I’ve never watched an actor create such full, complex, characters through improv. She paired the character improv sessions with actual writing sessions to nail down the story and work out the details of the plot. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">What was so fascinating about seeing the play in the development stage, was that there are so many possibilities for how the story could unfold. There was so much that was explored and then cut from the final product. We saw about at least 10 different versions of Bongani’s story – there were so many different ways his relationship with Corrine could succeed and fail. How on earth could you pick? <span> </span>How do you decide which betrayal hurts the most? Which moments of sexual tension to include? Each one pulls at your heart in a different way. You get enormously attached to the characters and want to do justice to their story. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">While all of this wonderful creativity was happening there was also the flurry of activity that came with the actual production side. There were training sessions with the Fringe, venue day, one too-short tech session for the whole run, email glitches, ticket sales, last minute prop acquisitions, getting programs in a hurry and I could keep going but I won’t. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">With the stress of the last minute things and the scurry to fix things (including the light board for opening night), the anxiety was building, it seemed certain that something was about to happen to derail the show. How on earth would this come together? </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
<span> </span>And then it did.<span> </span>When disaster seemed ready to strike, when it seemed like none of the details would fall into place in time, they did. I'm still not sure how we managed to accomplish everything in time. The show came together.<span> </span>Gabrielle gave amazing performances. When the audience came out of the theatre, lamenting the fact that they had to leave Bongani’s world, and raving about the journey they just went on, all of the worries from before seemed trivial. <span> </span>Because suddenly they were. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Hannah Vaughn is an actor who joined the Bongani team this summer as production coordinator. She tweets for @Bonganitheplay. You can follow her own acting tweets @hanbmb and her blog at dateslikethis.tumblr.com.</span></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><!--EndFragment-->Gabrielle Maiselshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04381693786540096601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2052216128700380953.post-13234924919342072692011-09-14T10:22:00.002-04:002011-09-14T10:22:20.321-04:00Reviews<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:DocumentProperties> <o:Template>Normal.dotm</o:Template> <o:Revision>0</o:Revision> <o:TotalTime>0</o:TotalTime> <o:Pages>1</o:Pages> <o:Words>180</o:Words> <o:Characters>1026</o:Characters> <o:Company>Christopher Newport University</o:Company> <o:Lines>8</o:Lines> <o:Paragraphs>2</o:Paragraphs> <o:CharactersWithSpaces>1260</o:CharactersWithSpaces> <o:Version>12.0</o:Version> </o:DocumentProperties> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing> <w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing> <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:DontAutofitConstrainedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> </w:Compatibility> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="276"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]> <style>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">We are very lucky to have had some wonderful reviews of the FringeNYC performances this past August. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">August Schulenburg of NYtheatre.com wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“…this piercingly political play never sacrifices the characters’ complexity or agency in exposing the rottenness of the apartheid system.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“This lovingly detailed yet epic story somehow fits in Maisels’s single body…”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">This bracingly unsentimental play does justice to the complexities of love and identity under the pressures of injustice.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">HYreviews.com raves:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“Writer/performer Gabrielle Maisels delivered the best one person show of the festival… Maisels picks and enacts key scenes of their lives with such care that by the end the story will hit you like a hammer to the heart.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“She brings each character to full life in a fraction of a second…”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“…she's so emotionally giving that you can't help but respond in kind.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“…one of the finest solo performers I've ever been lucky enough to experience.”</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">And Dan Bacalzo of theatremania.com wrote,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“The writer/performer does not present any easy solutions to the lingering racism within the country, but instead chooses to create layered characters in a complex situation.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“…the show's bittersweet conclusion packs a powerful punch.”</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><!--EndFragment-->Gabrielle Maiselshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04381693786540096601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2052216128700380953.post-85314993045223551892011-08-30T13:09:00.000-04:002011-08-30T13:09:15.616-04:00We made the Encore Series!!Whew. After being crushed by having our last two shows in the Fringe cancelled by Hurricane Irene, we then got the thrilling news that we'd been selected for the Encore Series, so we have four more shows this month! We'll be at the lovely Soho Playhouse. So nice.<br />
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Here are all the basics. More fun info to come!<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">BONGANI @ The Fringe Encore Series</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Sat. Sept 17, 4:30pm</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Sun Sept 18, 5:00pm</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mon Sept 19, 8:00 pm</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Wed Sept 21, 8:00pm</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #2c2c2c; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Tickets and Info:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://www.fringenyc.org/index.php/component/content/article/9-shows/180-encoreseries">http://www.fringenyc.org/-encoreseries</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><!--EndFragment-->Gabrielle Maiselshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04381693786540096601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2052216128700380953.post-79526517114495115742011-08-25T03:24:00.000-04:002011-08-25T03:24:17.375-04:00A rave review...<a href="http://www.nytheatre.com/showpage.aspx?s=bong12927">http://www.nytheatre.com/showpage.aspx?s=bong12927</a>Gabrielle Maiselshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04381693786540096601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2052216128700380953.post-63151771151320780122011-08-19T10:04:00.000-04:002011-08-19T10:04:57.837-04:00Actual blogging<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">Hmm. Maybe I'll use this as an actual blog. As I was posting this on FB a few minutes ago: </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">Thank you to wonderful audiences yesterday. This morning I am...stunned, grateful, happy, excited...feeling all the energy of that special bond forged in the theatre; I'm up there in a glow of light, being inhabited by all these powerful souls, and seeing a sea of open, active faces in the audience around me -- traveling with me, laughing, crying, communing. I kind of can't believe that I get to do this.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">I thought: I have so much more to write. It's pouring out of me now. I can't write a novel on Facebook, and then I went "Oh, duh. That's what a blog is for." </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">Though now that I'm typing I realize I'm so tired I can hardly see straight. But I just need to gush about how beautiful yesterday was. Show Business. It's a weird thing. But that "still you wouldn't trade it for a sack of gold" is because there is magic in being surrounded by humans breathing WITH you. It's a crazy, beautiful experience. And somehow, this show, this week, I'm feeling it more acutely than ever before. It's been a profound and sometimes harrowing journey creating this piece...and suddenly it flies...and I'm just soaring with it, feeling a little like I was shot out of a cannon. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">More later. So grateful, content and thrilled this morning. </span>Gabrielle Maiselshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04381693786540096601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2052216128700380953.post-89215634519570830532011-08-11T10:56:00.000-04:002011-08-11T10:56:07.787-04:00AAAAAAGH!Mounting a solo show is crazy.<br />
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This will, one day, be more of a blog. But that will clearly be AFTER this show is mounted, so, in the meantime....<br />
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All the SHOW INFO is on the SCHEDULE tab.<br />
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Lots lots more info is on our Facebook page, which is <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Two-Girls-The-Play/108212747783?sk=info">Two-Girls-The-Play</a>...<br />
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Photos are about to be posted somewhere...here...I think I need a photo page?...Gabrielle Maiselshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04381693786540096601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2052216128700380953.post-45962002054109225402011-08-03T19:43:00.001-04:002011-08-03T19:44:26.044-04:00Monday's Bongani ReadingHi to all of you out there.<br />
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I'm Justin, stage manager for <i>Bongani</i>. On Monday night, I attended the latest semi-public reading of the show. I say "semi-public" because we had a very small, invited audience of friends and family-- about twenty people in total. It was pretty casual; we set up in a rehearsal studio in Midtown, with pizza and wine set up on a side table, and an air conditioner blasting throughout the evening.<br />
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I've been in contact by phone & email for the past month, but this was the first time I'd seen the show on its feet. It was also my first opportunity to meet Kate (our director) and Hannah (our production coordinator & liason to the festival) in person. And it was the first time I'd seen Gabrielle since we worked on <i>Two Girls</i> last year.<br />
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There were no props and not costumes, and she had a script in her hand for all but one scene. The show itself is not tech-heavy by any means, but the bare-bones performance we saw that night put the focus squarely on the text & the performance. Gabrielle told us to come and go as we pleased. One or two latecomers slipped in after the the reading began, but I don't think anybody left the room until it was finished, an hour and fifty minutes later. It will be shorter by the time we open.<br />
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We followed the reading with feedback and a Q&A from the audience. I think the intimate setting (and the wine) helped to get open and constructive responses. The characters, most of them, are familiar from <i>Two Girls</i>, but the story is new, and it is still being refined. So it was helpful to have a kind of 'peer review'. WE all appreciated the notes from Carol and Michael and everyone else (I do not know everybody's names).<br />
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I'm excited to help put together all the technical elements over the next two weeks, and to get this show ready for production. At the moment, I'm busy researching South African music and contacting local press. I will post again soon. And I promise that next time I will have pictures.<br />
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-JustinGabrielle Maiselshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04381693786540096601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2052216128700380953.post-58883747011402931802011-07-29T21:18:00.000-04:002011-07-29T21:18:20.852-04:00Bongani at FringeNYC 2011With August quickly approaching, preparation for <i>Bongani</i> at FringeNYC 2011 is kicking into high gear!<br />
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Some helpful information for those attending <i>Bongani</i> this August:<br />
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<b>Wonderful venue:</b> Manhattan Theatre Source, 177 MacDougal St (between 8th St and Waverly)<br />
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<b>Six amazing performance times:</b><br />
Thursday August 18 at 2:00 PM<br />
Thursday August 18 at 7:45 PM<br />
Tuesday August 23 at 8:45 PM<br />
Friday August 26 at 5:00 PM<br />
Saturday August 27 at 5:15 PM<br />
Sunday August 28 at 2:15 PM<br />
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<b>Tantalizingly cheap tickets </b>available online, over the phone or in person.<br />
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<b><i>Tickets are $15 in advance and $18 at the door.</i></b><br />
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To purchase tickets online, click <a href="http://www.ticketweb.com/snl/Search.action?query=Bongani">here</a>.<br />
To purchase tickets by phone, please call: 866-468-7619<br />
To purchase tickets in person, visit Fringe Central at 45 Bleecker St (at Lafayette).<br />
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Check out our nytheatre.com <a href="http://nytheatre.com/fnycpreview.aspx?s=12927">preview</a>!<br />
Check out our <a href="http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/bongani_183533/">page</a> on theatremania.com !<br />
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<a href="mailto:twogirlstheplay@gmail.com">Click here to be added to the Bongani Mailing List!</a><br />
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Also follow us on Twitter @bonganitheplay !Gabrielle Maiselshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04381693786540096601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2052216128700380953.post-33431837971584910022011-06-26T13:40:00.006-04:002011-07-26T19:51:11.409-04:00Here's the Link to the Fringe websiteLots more info to come, just getting there slowly.... <br />
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<a href="http://www.fringenyc.org/basic_page.php?ltr=B#Bongan">Bongani at FringeNYC 2011</a><br />
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Exact dates will be announced later this month, but we have our theater, which is the FABULOUS Manhattan Theater Source, <a href="http://theatresource.org/who_we_are.php">http://theatresource.org</a><br />
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Also, the team is growing:<br />
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Director: The exquisite Kate Holland<br />
Production Coordinator: The peerless Hannah Vaughn<br />
Stage Manager: The inimitable Justin Cornell<br />
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more coming soon....Gabrielle Maiselshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04381693786540096601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2052216128700380953.post-90795123857782255582011-06-23T21:59:00.011-04:002011-06-24T17:19:53.317-04:00Check out our awesomesauce ad for the FringeNYC program!<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">written and performed by Gabrielle Maisels<br />
at the New York International Fringe Festival 2010</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.fringenyc.org/basic_page.php?ltr=T#TwoGir"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Two Girls @ FringeNYC</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
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A friendship blossoms and struggles in the "new" South Africa. Moving in time and place from Mandela's South Africa to Obama's America, two girls from very different worlds -- one black, one Jewish, take on the trauma that apartheid left behind.<br />
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Gabrielle Maisels, grandaughter of Advocate Isie Maisels, successful defender of Nelson Mandela in the 1956-61 Treason Trial, performs her remarkable one-woman play.<br />
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<b>Performances<br />
Thursday Aug 19 7:00 pm**<br />
Saturday August 21 3:15 pm<br />
Sunday August 22 2:00 pm<br />
Tuesday August 24 10:15 pm<br />
Wednesday August 25 4:00pm*</b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">** followed by opening night drinks; come join us!<br />
* followed by talk-back with writer/performer</span><br />
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Location:<br />
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Venue #2: The Connelly Theater<br />
220 East 4th St (between Avenues A and B)<br />
New York, NY 10009<br />
<i>(To get there: take the F train to 2nd Ave, walk north up 2nd Ave to East 4th Street, and turn right. The theatre will be on your right.)</i><br />
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Tickets are $15, and may be bought online or by phone.<br />
<a href="http://http://www.fringenyc.org/basic_page.php?ltr=T#TwoGir">Two Girls @ FringeNYC</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://http://www.fringenyc.org/basic_page.php?ltr=T#TwoGir"></a>866-468-7619<br />
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Watch a clip from last summer's sold-out run!<br />
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<a href="http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTPaEaPSjvo">Two Girls @ YouTube</a><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Director: Joey Brenneman * Assistant Director: Teff Nichols * Dramaturg: Audrey Rosenberg * Lighting Design: Marciel Greene * Stage Manager: Justin Cornell * Postcard Design: Juliana Kreinik</span></b></span></div>Gabrielle Maiselshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04381693786540096601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2052216128700380953.post-89166275936050949342010-08-07T23:38:00.001-04:002010-08-11T22:20:15.271-04:00Become a fan of Two Girls on Facebook<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Two Girls also has a Facebook page. You can become a fan </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-York-NY/Two-Girls-The-Play/108212747783"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">here</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v505/bigbadfluff/?action=view&current=TwoGirls_Image_2.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v505/bigbadfluff/TwoGirls_Image_2.jpg" border="0" /></a></div>Gabrielle Maiselshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04381693786540096601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2052216128700380953.post-439136758684379432010-08-07T23:12:00.000-04:002010-08-08T01:10:07.121-04:00Two Girls at the Fringe NYC Festival!I am excited to announce that <i>Two Girls</i> will be performed this August as part of this year's FringeNYC!<div><br /></div><div><i>Two Girls</i></div><div>Written and performed by Gabrielle Maisels</div><div>Directed by Joey Brenneman</div><div>Dates:</div><div>August 19th (Thursday) at 7:00 PM</div><div>August 21st (Saturday) at 3:15 PM</div><div>August 22nd (Sunday) at 2:00 PM</div><div>August 24th (Tuesday) at 10:15 PM</div><div>August 25th (Wednesday) at 4:00 PM</div><div>All performances are at the Connelly Theatre in the East Village, 220 East 4th St., New York, NY.</div><div>It's a limited run, so get your seats today!</div><div>You can buy tickets online at <a href="http://bit.ly/9UV8Sb">the Fringe site</a>.</div>Gabrielle Maiselshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04381693786540096601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2052216128700380953.post-41554002760470380972010-08-07T22:36:00.001-04:002011-06-23T20:44:59.619-04:00Check out this clip from the play<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This video clip is from our sold-out run at the 2009 Midtown International Theater Festival:</span></div><div><br />
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</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Like what you see? Come to one of our performances at the 2010 FringeNYC Festival!</span></div>Gabrielle Maiselshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04381693786540096601noreply@blogger.com0