Participating Artists: Theatre
ALL THEATRE EVENTS WILL BE PERFORMED AT NADINE BAUM STUDIOS
Ceramic Cow Productions
This hilarious, Fayetteville-based theatre troupe produces the wildly popular Dupont, Mississippi series, most recently presenting, Pearl's Sixth Wedding. If you missed this grand event, check their website for dates of repeat performances at, http://ceramiccowllc.tripod.com. Ceramic Cow won the inaugural 2005 Fayetteville Arts Festival 24-Hour Play Festival as well as the Fayetteville Arts Festival 24-Hour Play Festival in 2007. Company co-founders Julie Gabel and Mark Landon Smith have produced, directed and acted nationally for stage, television and film. "moo!" They will be performing, Pearl's of Wisdom, at noon on Saturday, September 6th. Ticket price $10.
TheatreSquared
With Moonlight and Magnolias, by Ron Hutchinson, TheatreSquared enters its third year of bringing the latest in contemporary live theatre to Northwest Arkansas. In its two-year residency at the Walton Art Center's Nadine Baum Studios, T2 has produced nine plays, from the brilliantly comic Bad Dates to the heart-rending world premiere of My Father's War. Each time, T2 has brought together local professionals with guest artists from around the country to produce its brand of exceptional theatre -- theatre that's as entertaining as it is life provoking. TheatreSquared will be performing Moonlight & Magnolias, by Ron Hutchinson, on September 5th and 6th at 8pm & September 7th at 2pm. Ticket prices $22 / $18 for seniors.
Arkansas Playwrights Workshop
Open to everyone in the community, this group is dedicated to nurturing new plays and playwrights, helping to foster new works for the American stage while providing a safe place for writers to work on their craft. In residence at the Fayetteville Public Library since 2003, APW is directed by Robert Ford, Artistic Director for TheatreSquared. This team of writers is presenting readings of original plays at the arts festival at 2pm on Saturday, September 6th. For information about the Arkansas Playwrights Workshop, contact Bob Ford at, bob@theatresquared.org Ticket price $7.
National Writing Project
The National Writing Project is the premier effort to improve writing in America. NWP is a nationwide nonprofit education organization that promotes K-16 teacher training programs in the effective teaching of writing. This professional development program, for teachers, helps improve their writing skills, and in turn, helping to develop those amongst their students. The project serves more than 100,000 teachers at approximately 200 sites, and has served over 2 million teachers and administrators since its inception 1974. Local educators meet at the UofA for 4 weeks at a summer invitational and write in a variety of genres to discover the writer within. We are fortunate to have a site here in Northwest Arkansas at the UofA. A few of the writers from this project will be reading short pieces of their works on Saturday, September 6th. At 3:45pm. For more information, please visit their website at, http://www.nwp.org. This is a free event.
24-Hour Play Festival
One of the most popular events of the Fayetteville Arts Festival, the 24-Hour Play Festival challenges even the most seasoned actors, directors and playwrights. The concept is quite simple: each team is given very specific guidelines and 24 hours to create a fully produced 10 minute play before they present to a live audience. Good, bad or ugly - all of the plays are performed to the delight of the audience. This exciting event will take place on Sunday, September 7th, at 6pm. Ticket price $10.
Splash Theatre
The 2008 Fayetteville Arts Festival adds a new element to the exciting weekend line up. This years new offering is Splash Theatre! TheatreSquared and Ceramic Cow Productions will present an exhibition performance of Splash Theatre in which there are two teams - one from TheatreSquared and one from Ceramic Cow. TheatreSquared will write a 10 minute script for the Ceramic Cow team and vice versa. Two actors from each company will receive the script written for them a month in advance, however neither actor knows who will be their acting partner. There are no rehearsals. The actors memorize their lines independently and only discover who their fellow actor is the moment the curtain goes up at the performance! This is a free (and exciting) event.