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IRONDALE ENSEMBLE  

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 Alice. . .Alice. . .Alice!         In Pursuit Of Freedom         Murrow's Boys

IRONDALE ENSEMBLE
Alice. . .Alice. . .Alice!

Synopsis:
Irondale Ensemble presents alice. . .alice. . .aLICE!, an original, environmental excursion performance piece, based on the beloved Lewis Carroll classic, alice in Wonderland. The audience follows the ensemble down the rabbit hole into Wonderland-the nooks, crannies, recesses, and lofts of the Irondale Center and its historic 19th century building. This unique, adventurous performance exploration will be vastly different from other theatrical presentations and the audience is encouraged to wear comfortable clothing, don't let the stairs, attics, and over-crofts keep you away! Get ready to enter a strange and wonderful world that the general public seldom sees with the Irondale company as your guide.
- nytheatre.com

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IRONDALE ENSEMBLE
In Pursuit Of Freedom

Synopsis:
The Irondale Ensemble presents a new play, In Pursuit of Freedom, an original work devised by the ensemble and developed as part of the borough s first public history project to explore the abolitionist movement in Brooklyn. The whole project, also known as In Pursuit of Freedom, will bring to life this fascinating abolition story while teasing out the relevance of the subject for contemporary audiences. at Irondale, In Pursuit of Freedom will explore the tension between Brooklyn s phenomenal growth during the nineteenth century based on its intricate ties to slavery, and the moral imperative towards anti-slavery activism by a small group of residents. Set in the tumultuous decade prior to the Civil War, In Pursuit of Freedom will blend real and fictional characters, who were all committed Brooklynites. The play will explore a time in this borough s history when free African-Americans charted a course of self-determination in order to address the everyday injustices of racism, threats of illegal kidnapping, voter discrimination, and a profound lack of legal and political equality. It was also a time when ordinary men and women, black and white, became abolitionists, in order to end slavery even as their city s wealth depended on the Southern economy. The play will tell new stories about familiar abolitionists and recover activists who have been underrepresented by mainstream narratives. Ultimately, the play will be a venue for exploring American notions of freedom and engage with the ongoing debates of how we define freedom today. In Pursuit of Freedom project draws on the resources and capacities of two other leading Brooklyn cultural organizations, Brooklyn Historical Society and Weeksville Heritage Center. In Fall 2013, all three organizations will unveil permanent exhibitions as part of an ambitious, historical and educational project, that will complement and add to the experience of seeing the play. The drama of the abolitionist movement is manifest in the physical environment. Many communities still meet in churches that were centers of resistance. Buildings that were once were abolitionists homes or meeting venues abound. The waterfront is still littered with the warehouses and other buildings that were essential for exchange and trade with the slave holding states. at twenty of these sites highly visible markers will be erected as permanent reminders of the history of the location to passers by. Elements of these exciting exhibitions will be displayed throughout the historic Irondale Center to offer glimpses of what In Pursuit of Freedom will become as the project moves through into 2013.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Irondale Center
85 S. Oxford Street, 2nd floor, Brooklyn, NY 11217    26 Apr 2012

Organisations:
Irondale Theatre Project

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IRONDALE ENSEMBLE
Murrow's Boys

Synopsis:
"I'm standing on a rooftop looking out over London." With these words Edward R. Murrow and the daring band of journalists he gathered made broadcast history during the Blitz. Murrow and the "boys" (which included one girl) literally created the field of broadcast journalism by bringing the story of World War II home to Americans. The Irondale Ensemble's new devised theater piece uses the words and deeds of these intrepid reporters to investigate the questions: Is news important today, where do we get it and why should it matter? This is the Edward R. Murrow before Goodnight and Good Luckbefore the historic showdown with Joseph McCarthy. This is the story of Murrow, Shirer, Collingwood, Sevareid, Hottelet, Smith, and others like them for whom the need to get intelligent information and analysis of world events was not just a career, it was an adventure.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Irondale Center
85 S. Oxford Street, 2nd floor, Brooklyn, NY 11217    06 may 2011

Organisations:
Irondale Theatre Project

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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