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Philip Suraci

PHILIP SURACI

  
Nationality:    USA
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Philip Suraci's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Philip Suraci's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Catch Her in the Lie         Generation (bu)Y         Lysistrata's Children

Catch Her in the Lie

Synopsis:
the play is an examination of hypocrisy from the perspective of our children. In a world filled with adults preaching one thing, but often doing another, how can young people find the best way to lead their lives? the play is a hilarious/perilous journey exploring truth, virtue, and madness. It will look at the contradictory behavior of adults - politicians, business leaders, athletes, artists, parents, and teachers - as viewed by teen youth. Among the inspirations for the project are the Catcher in the Rye and Dante'sthe Divine Comedy. the mission of theaterPeace is to create dialogue between youth and their elders, so Catch Her in the Lie will be performed for audiences of both students and adults. In the troupe's creative process, young actors examine, write and perform their views on a social issue; then writer/director Philip Suraci takes this as source material and writes an original piece on the theme. the play that results allows adults to listen as audience to the outcries of youth with a focus that only a Dramatic context can provide. the play's cast are young actors ages 9-18.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Theater for the New City
155 First Avenue, New York, NY 10009    08 May 2011

Organisations:
TheaterPeace

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama 65 min

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  8            Other:  -

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Generation (bu)Y

Synopsis:
Generation (bu)Y explains our slavery to marketing from the mouths of babes. Conceived and directed by Philip Suraci, written by Suraci and the cast, the play will be performed by an ensemble of 18 young actors (aged 11 to 13) plus three adult actors. It is meant to be played for an audience of adults and children over the age of ten. the intent of the production is to raise awareness of the effects marketing and advertising upon children. Generation (bu)Y examines strategies used by marketers such as the belittlement of parents and adults (parent/child alienation) and the exploitation of child needs of acceptance by peers. In the play, a 13 year-old girl is in crisis. She is suffering from anxiety and subject to angry outbursts at school. Her grades are suffering. Her mother has sent her to therapy. Through her sessions with her therapist, the audience comes to learn about the source of her distress: the pressure to conform to what she feels others wish her to be and her perceived inability to meet those expectations (as conveyed by her peers and media).
- nytheatre.com

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Genre:
55 min One Act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  large cast

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Lysistrata's Children

Synopsis:
Inspired by Aristophanes, Lysistrata's Children is an original work conceived by Philip Suraci and devised for and with the teenage cast. It explores issues of war and peace, violence and non-violence through the power dynamics of child/parent relationships. In Aristophanes's original, Athenian wives denied their husbands sex in order to persuade them to make peace. In Suraci's adaptation, children withhold love from their parents until they sign an oath of 'Victory over violence' and join the children's quest for peace. there is sly comedy in the children's manipulation of their parents' behavior and in the parents' responses to their children's demands
- press release

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  large cast

Further Reference:
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