Department of Theater Studies to Present Three Movements
Durham, N.C. - The Theater Studies Department at Duke University will present the premiere of Three Movements by Martin Zimmerman Feb. 8 - 11, 2007 at Sheafer Theater on the Duke campus in Durham, N.C.
Zimmerman wrote the play for his senior honors thesis. Recent Duke graduate Marshall Botvinick will direct Three Movements . Duke faculty member Jay O'Berski will play the lead role in the play. Students Madeleine Lambert and Anne Sandefur will also appear.
Zimmerman's play is a fictional work inspired in part by the life of the famed ballet choreographer George Balanchine. It follows the efforts of a choreographer (also named George) and his relationship with his wife, Sonia, who was one of his greatest dancers.
Zimmerman has been working on this play for more than a year. He wrote a first draft at the end of 2005 and developed it over the spring and during a fellowship with New York Stage and Film at the Powerhouse New Work Festival last summer.
He is also currently working on developing several other plays and is in the process of writing a libretto for a collaboration on an opera with George Lam, who is a graduate student in Music Composition at Duke. The opera is being developed in conjunction with the American Opera Project.
He is planning on pursuing playwriting in the future and has applied to several graduate programs in dramatic writing. Zimmerman has the full confidence of the Theater Studies faculty. Department Chair John Clum says simply, "Martin Zimmerman is the most gifted and dedicated playwriting student we have had at Duke."
Three Movements
Sheafer Theater
Feb. 8-10 at 8 pm
Feb. 11 at 2 pm
Tickets $5 general admission, $3 students and senior citizens
Tickets sold at the doorwww.duke.edu/web/theaterstudies.
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