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New Traditions Theatre is accepting submissions for a December 2007 production.

Submission Guidelines:

* Only unproduced works will be accepted.
* Plays must have a female or other underrepresented populations 
as the protagonist or work with colorblind casting in all
 lead roles.
* Plays that have had staged readings are eligible.
* No adaptations, musicals, or children's plays.
* Cast size maximum: 10.
* Length: 120 minutes maximum, 60 minutes minimum.
* Settings should be simple or suggested.
* Playwrights may make multiple submissions.
* Scripts must be postmarked by September 4, 2007.

Please submit a cover letter, a synopsis, and a resume along with
 two copies of the play. Cover sheet of play should have
 title, author, author's address, author's telephone number, and
 author's e-mail address (if available).


Selected plays may be presented for 8 performances in December 2007.
 Playwrights will receive a small stipend.


Plays should be submitted to 
Thomas King, 
1430-C Ida St.
 Durham, NC 27705. For more information, 
contact us at newtraditionstheatre@gmail.com.
 

NEW TRADITIONS THEATRE PRESENTS A STAGED READING OF ALICE CHILDRESS'
WINE IN THE WILDERNESS.

Directed by Thomas "TeKay" King and Thaddaeus Edwards

As a race riot rages in the streets of Harlem, an African-American artist
attempting to portray three faces of African-American womanhood meets a
woman who forces him to reexamine his beliefs.

Featuring: Barbette Hunter, C Delton Streeter, Geraud Stauton, 
Leigh L. Holmes, TeKay and Thaddaeus Edwards.

What: A staged reading of Alice Childress' Wine in the Wilderness

Where: Manbites Dog Theater 703 Foster St. Durham, N.C.

When: Saturday, August 4th at 8pm

Tickets: No advance reservations. Door sales only.Pay what you can, $5 minimum.

How: Directions and phone number: www.manbitesdogtheater.org

exactly as before.

New Traditions Theatre is a collective of predominately African-American artists committed to developing and performing theatrical works.

Common Ground Theatre in association with New Traditions Theatre presents:
365 Plays/365 Days & The America Play by Suzan-lori Parks

DATE: May 31, June 1, 2, 7, 8, 9 at 7:30 pm
June 3 (365 Plays/Days only)-2:00 pm, (The America Play only)-5:00 pm
Common Ground Theatre, 4815B Hillsborough Road, Durham.
TICKETS: (919) 698-3870, $14-general, $12-students and seniors

Contact New Traditions Theatre at newtraditionstheatre[at]gmail.com.

ABOUT THE PLAYS

The America Play

A powerful and provocative theater piece ruminating on identity, roots, father/son relationships, story-telling and American history. What is it like to have your identity as an African-American constructed and defined by that which is absent. Is history fact, fiction or who was able to get the story on paper first?

Directed by TeKay (Thomas King), co-Artistic Director of NTT. Featuring Lester Hill, Jasme' Kelly, and Steven Rausch.

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365 Plays/365 Days

On November 13, 2002, Suzan-lori Parks got an idea to write a play a day for a year. She began that very day, finishing one year later. The resulting play cycle, called 365 Days/365 Plays, is a daily meditation on an artistic life.

Capitalizing on the artistic and creative success of 2006's all-Black production of Anton Chekov's The Cherry Orchard, several noted Triangle-area artists banded together to create a new theatre company.

Working on the theme “exactly as before,” the company fosters to recast mainstream theatre in non-traditional ways--the norm instead of the exception.

In association with the Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern, the company revealed its name at a reading of Ibsen's A Doll's House at Manbites Dog Theater in Durham. New Traditions Theatre was born.

Founding company members include nine actors familiar to the Triangle: Thaddaeus Edwards, Leigh Holmes, Barbette Hunter, Byron Jennings, TeKay (Thomas King), Chaunesti Lyon, Jackie Marriott, Geraud Staton and LaMark Wright.