Brooklyn College Playwrights Present One-Acts at Theater in Manhattan

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November 30, 1999

Brooklyn College Playwrights Present One-Acts at Theater in Manhattan

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Brooklyn, N.Y. - Brooklyn College's prestigious graduate playwriting program will present an evening of one-acts, entitled American Fugue, on Friday, December 11, and Saturday, December 10, at NADA Theater, 167 Ludlow Street. Curtain is at 8 p.m. This marks the first time that students' work has been produced by the program.

The ten short plays include works by Janet Burnham and Susan Telcher, whose one-act plays were seen recently at the Raw Space in Manhattan. Also included is a piece by Michael Bradford, a writer who has been hailed by Carl Jaynes, general manager of the American Place Theatre, as a "really original voice for the African American experience."

The Brooklyn College graduate playwriting program was founded by the distinguished dramatist Jack Gelber, author of The Connection, and is now headed by playwright and novelist Carey Harrison, son of the late Sir Rex Harrison.

Professor Harrison has also written many scripts for the British television series Masterpiece Theatre.

"We are hopeful that this production will be the first of anannual tradition," said Harrison, professor of English at Brooklyn College.
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