Part 2: Dreaming Beyond Conflict—Pop Up Performances at The Gathering on Friday 10 May 2019
Channel: HowlRound Theatre Commons
Date: 2019-05-10

Dreaming Beyond Conflict: Theatres of Aspiration—A Suite of Pop-Up Performances
11 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4) / 15:00 - 16:45 UTC +0 / 4 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. BST (London, UTC +1)

David J. Diamond (Moderator), Artist, Activist, La MaMa Umbria International; Combatants for Peace 

11:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.  Pop-Up Performance: Excerpt from Rituals of Signs and Transformations, by Sa’dallah Wannous
Translated and Directed by Robert Myers, Playwright/Professor, American University of Beirut
Performed by Maboud Ebrahimzadeh and Heather Raffo

11:40 a.m.-12:00 p.m.  Pop-Up Performance: Excerpts from The Admission and The Scream and the Silence, by Motti Lerner

Performed by Marty Lodge

12:00-12:20 Pop-Up Performance: Excerpt from My Brief Affair With Miri Regev: A Response to Shame– by Ari Roth, Artistic Director, Mosaic Theater Company of DC

Performed by Julie-Ann Elliott

Discussion, Moderated by David J. Diamond, Q & A with Actors, Writers and Directors of Above Pop-Ups
12:20 p.m. - 12:45 p.m.                        

As part of the inaugural CrossCurrents festival, The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. presents The Gathering livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv from Wednesday 8 May to Saturday 11 May 2019.

The Lab brings together more than 200 visionary artists from more than 40 countries to celebrate and highlight how their innovative work harnesses the power of performance to address the pressing challenges of our world.
https://howlround.com/happenings/livestreaming-gathering-crosscurrents-festival