Programs
Expanding the Canon: a play reading circle
The next Expanding the Canon play reading circle will focus on the works of Latiné playwrights and their experience, and will begin in January 2025. Jorge Donoso, a Colombian born, New York City-based performer and community organizer will curate the list of plays to be read and provide a dramaturgical packet for each of the five plays as a resource for reading, study, and conversation. Participants read the play and materials on their own and gather once a month over Zoom to discuss. Participation in this program is FREE.
Playwrights featured in this circle include Nilo Cruz, Matthew López, Karen Zacarías, Lin Manual Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes, and Vero Villalobos.
theatre KAPOW launched Expanding the Canon: a play reading circle in January 2021 to expand our familiarity with the works of Black, Indigenous, and global majority playwrights. We simply must do the work to change “the canon.” Becoming familiar with these works is one small thing that we can do to move toward the equity we want to see in the world. Previous circles have focused on works by contemporary Black playwrights, Asian American playwrights, Native playwrights and playwrights highlighting the Disabled voice.
Open Training
Training is open to everyone 16 and older, with any level of experience or none. Participants should come comfortably dressed to move (no jeans). Arrive 15 minutes early to check in and stretch.
Open trainings are USUALLY held on the 3rd Saturday of every month and are pay what-you-will.
Sessions take place in different locations, so please check each month carefully.
December Open Training
How do you follow a script that can’t be repeated? A solo performance that can’t be done alone?
Join Director Emma Cahoon and Company members Peter Josephson and Carey Cahoon for a morning of creating and finding Every Brilliant Thing.
January Open Training
How do you follow a script that can’t be repeated? A solo performance that can’t be done alone?
Join Director Emma Cahoon and Company members Peter Josephson and Carey Cahoon for a morning of creating and finding Every Brilliant Thing.
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December 2024 Open Training
tKAPOW Studio 66 Hanover Street Suite 101, Manchester, NH, United StatesHow do you follow a script that can't be repeated? A solo performance that can’t be done alone? Join Director Emma Cahoon and Company members Peter Josephson and Carey Cahoon for a morning of creating and finding Every Brilliant Thing.
January 2025 Open Training
tKAPOW Studio 66 Hanover Street Suite 101, Manchester, NH, United StatesHow do you follow a script that can't be repeated? A solo performance that can’t be done alone? Join Director Emma Cahoon and Company members Peter Josephson and Carey Cahoon for a morning of creating and finding Every Brilliant Thing.
ARTiculate Playreading Series
Hear the play, see the art, talk about it.
Hear new or rarely produced plays that relate to special exhibitions at the Currier Museum of Art or objects or artists in the museum’s permanent collection. After each of the readings, stay for a conversation led by local experts in the fields of fine art, dramatic literature, or societal conditions. Following each reading and discussion, visit the galleries to view related artwork.
The Rembrandt
A play about the permanence of art and the impermanence of life…
In this comedic drama, playwright Jessica Dickey paints shimmering portraits of Rembrandt, Homer, and those who protect the art we cherish.
The play opens in a modern-day art museum where three individuals yearn to experience first-hand the wonder and glory of Rembrandt’s work. When a museum guard decides to touch a famous Rembrandt painting, a remarkable journey across the ages ensues. Spanning centuries of human experience, Jessica Dickey’s play movingly explores the power of creative expression and the sacrifices we make in the pursuit of love and beauty. The Rembrandt reminds us that though our beliefs may die with the sound of our voice, it’s the love we share—and the art that love inspires—that finds eternity.
Run time 1 hr 30 minutes
Sunday, January 19 at 2 pm
Ticket info coming soon
Bauer
Love. Art. Defiance. The visceral and visual true story of forgotten modern artist Rudolf Bauer, struggling with his fading place in the history of art as his paintings are removed from the walls of the Guggenheim Museum.
“Based on the true story of Rudolf Bauer, a forgotten abstract painter once arrested by the Nazis for his “degenerate” art, who gave up painting after signing an exclusive contract with Solomon Guggenheim. When the Baroness Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen—his ex-lover and former agent, who convinced him to make the deal—shows up at his New Jersey home to convince Bauer to paint again, this “beautifully written play… goes deep in [an] exploration of greed’s effect on love and art.” (The New York Times)
Bauer is the imagined confrontation between famed modernist painter Rudolf Bauer, his wife Louise, and Hilla Rebay, Bauer’s longtime lover. Delving into the now near-forgotten feud between Bauer, his benefactor Solomon Guggenheim, and Rebay, the woman who introduced them, Bauer throws into relief an unresolved art controversy. With his life’s work procured by the Guggenheim Foundation, Bauer believed that the museum in New York was being built to house his creations. However, the Guggenheim opened without a single Bauer on display. What happened to his paintings? Was this the perceived betrayal that caused Bauer to set down his brushes and never paint again? Celebrated playwright Lauren Gunderson, winner of a Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award and a Susan Smith Blackburn Prize finalist, tackles this scandalous story of the controversial artist whom the Nazis once jailed for “degenerate art”, and who is considered by many art historians and critics to have had a major impact on modern artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.
Run time: 1 hr 30 minutes
Sunday, May 4 at 2 pm
Ticket info coming soon
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ARTiculate (The Rembrandt)
Currier Museum of Art 150 Ash St., Manchester, NH, United StatesIn this comedic drama, playwright Jessica Dickey paints shimmering portraits of Rembrandt, Homer, and those who protect the art we cherish.
ARTiculate (Bauer)
Currier Museum of Art 150 Ash St., Manchester, NH, United StatesIn this comedic drama, playwright Jessica Dickey paints shimmering portraits of Rembrandt, Homer, and those who protect the art we cherish.
