En Garde Arts is thrilled to announce Uncommon Voices, a new developmental series at The Commons Cafe in Brooklyn. Each month, experience a new intergenerational work focused on social change and art activism—followed by a facilitated conversation with the artists.
Monday, August 5th @ 7:30 pm
Threshold
Written and Performed by Amy Brenneman
Directed by Sabrina Peck
Threshold tells the highly personal story of Amy’s life juggling the roles of caregiver to her mother, mother to her disabled daughter and her working life as an actress.
Monday, September 9th
Balboa Is Not Drowning
Written by Kevin R. Free
Directed by Zhailon Levingston
Performed by TONY-winner André De Shields (Hadestown)
1997 – In the middle of Pittsburgh’s Hill District, right around the corner from the new Millennium, near the end of a Century Cycle, Balboa Douglas has something to say from his deathbed to his sometime lover, Joe. A queer exploration into August Wilson’s Century Cycle.
Monday, October 7th
Soldier Girls
Written by Em Weinstein
Using real letters and a collage of history and music, Soldier Girls examines the untold story of the queer female soldiers of the U.S. Army’s newly formed Women’s Army Corps in World War II.
Thursday, October 10th (added performance)
In the Hudson Valley: A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction
by Miranda Rose Hall Developed by LubDub Theatre Company
An evening of interactive, interspecies storytelling, this new work-in-progress asks–through story, song, and movement–how to be a human in an era of man-made extinction.Featuring Nadine Malouf
Monday, November 17th
If You Lived With Me You’d Be Home By Now
Written by Annabelle Gurwitch
