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The Wolves & A 24-Decade History of Popular Music at Powerhouse

by Frances Marion Platt
August 29, 2016
in Art & Music, Stage & Screen
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Playwright Sarah DeLappe (winner of the inaugural Relentless Award, in honor of Philip Seymour Hoff man) comes to Powerhouse with The Wolves, a black comedy about the privilege and pain of nine American girls who just want to score some goals.
Playwright Sarah DeLappe (winner of the inaugural Relentless Award, in honor of Philip
Seymour Hoff man) comes to Powerhouse with The Wolves, a black comedy about the
privilege and pain of nine American girls who just want to score some goals.

Last year, in honor of recently deceased actor extraordinaire Phillip Seymour Hoffman, the American Playwriting Foundation inaugurated a competition called the Relentless Award – funded, interestingly, with the settlement from a libel suit by Hoffman and Foundation founder David Bar Katz against the National Enquirer. With a $45,000 purse, it’s the largest annual cash prize awarded to a playwright in recognition of a new play. The judges for 2015 included some heavyweight playwrights, including Eric Bogosian, Thomas Bradshaw, Lynn Nottage, John Ortiz, Jonathan Marc Sherman and Lucy Thurber. Two emerging playwrights shared the first year’s top prize, one of them being Sarah DeLappe for The Wolves.

Set for an August 29 world premiere via Playwrights’ Realm at the Duke on 42nd Street in New York City, under the direction of Lila Neugebauer (Wayside Motor Inn, 4000 Miles, Kill Floor), The Wolves is generating lots of buzz on account of the fact that it provides nine juicy roles for young actresses. It takes place during a warmup session for a girls’ indoor soccer team, whose conversation quickly spins beyond their will to win in a suburban sports match to the conflicts of the larger world.

This brand-new black comedy gets its final workshop performances before the “official” premiere at Vassar and New York Stage and Film’s Powerhouse Theater beginning this Thursday. Shows begin at 8 p.m. on July 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30, at 7 p.m. on July 24 and at 2 p.m. on July 23, 24, 30 and 31. Post-show discussions with the playwright and director will follow the evening show on Tuesday, July 26 and the Saturday matinée on July 30. Tickets to The Wolves cost $40 each.

Also on the Powerhouse schedule this weekend will be two performances of three excerpts from Taylor Mac’s multi-year opus-in-progress, A 24-Decade History of Popular Music. Described as “Part-concert, part-ritual, all-fabulous,” the wildly ambitious project charts the history of popular music in America from the nation’s founding to the present day, one decade per hour. Performances beginning at 8 p.m. this Friday and Saturday, July 22 and 23 in the Vogelstein Center for Drama and Film’s Martel Theater will cover the decades 1836-1846, 1856-1866 and 1876-1886. The entire first half of the performance cycle will be presented from noon to midnight on Saturday, July 30. Tickets cost $30 for the three-decade chunk or $50 for next weekend’s 12-hour marathon.

Powerhouse’s summer season is also home base for a Theater Training Company, who put on performances at the new Environmental Cooperative at the Vassar Barns in the Vassar Farm and Ecological Preserve, for free. A production of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, reimagined as a music-infused vaudevillian romp, directed by Andrew Willis-Woodward, will be performed beginning at 6:30 p.m. this Friday, Saturday and Sunday, July 22 to 24.

For more info on these and other Powerhouse Theater 2016 offerings, call the box office at (845) 437-5599 or visit https://powerhouse.vassar.edu. The Vassar College campus is located at 124 Raymond Avenue in Poughkeepsie.

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Frances Marion Platt

Frances Marion Platt has been a feature writer (and copyeditor) for Ulster Publishing since 1994, under both her own name and the nom de plume Zhemyna Jurate. Her reporting beats include Gardiner and Rosendale, the arts and a bit of local history. In 2011 she took up Syd M’s mantle as film reviewer for Alm@nac Weekly, and she hopes to return to doing more of that as HV1 recovers from the shock of COVID-19. A Queens native, Platt moved to New Paltz in 1971 to earn a BA in English and minor in Linguistics at SUNY. Her first writing/editing gig was with the Ulster County Artist magazine. In the 1980s she was assistant editor of The Independent Film and Video Monthly for five years, attended Heartwood Owner/Builder School, designed and built a timberframe house in Gardiner. Her son Evan Pallor was born in 1995. Alternating with her journalism career, she spent many years doing development work – mainly grantwriting – for a variety of not-for-profit organizations, including six years at Scenic Hudson. She currently lives in Kingston.

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