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Lucrece
Wednesday, April 25, 2007 8pm
at
The McKinney Avenue Contemporary
3120 McKinney Ave
Dallas, TX 75204
Free, but donations accepted
An event for Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Sponsors: The Dallas County Sexual Assault Coalition and
the McKinney Avenue Contemporary
Donations will benefit the Dallas County Sexual Assault Coalition,
which brings together law enforcement, social service agencies, and
concerned community members to work towards creating a more
coordinated community effort to address sexual assault.
Based on William Shakespeare's "The Rape Of Lucrece"
In co-production with Shakespeare Dallas
Emily Scott Banks
Emily is excited to be a founding member of VOX, and looks forward to this new
partnership. Since returning to North Texas a few years ago, Emily has played
major roles at many area theatres. Most recently, she was honored to play
Dr. Emma Brookner in The Normal Heart at Uptown Players. For
WaterTower Theatre, she originated the role of Sarah in A Country Life,
for which she was nominated for both Rabin and Column Awards, and played Lotty
in Enchanted April. Other roles include The Angel in
Angels In America –Perestroika for Risk Theatre Group; Paulina in
A Winter’s Tale and Audrey in As You Like It for Shakespeare
Dallas, the latter for which she was also nominated for a Column Award. She has
played major roles at Stage West, Circle Theatre, Dallas Children’s Theatre, State
Theatre of Austin, and Houston Theatre Festival. She received her B.F.A. in
Acting from The University of Texas at Austin’s acting conservatory, and
continued her professional training with the professional actor training program
at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA, where Emily is now a Teacher Trainee.
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Mary Lang Fournier
Mary Lang Fournier is a graduate of Texas State University, BFA acting.
She has been seen locally as Queen Elizabeth in Shakespeare Dallas’
Richard III, Twyla in Bootstraps' Sunny and Eddy,
Alexa in Theatre Arlington's As Bees in Honey Drown.
She was a company member of Esther's Folies in Austin for 5 years.
Some of her favorite roles include: Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet,
all of the women in Jeffry!, Kate in Dancing at Lughnasa,
and Edmund in King Lear. She is a proud member of ProjectX
and has done numerous productions there.
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David Goodwin
David has been working in Dallas theater for nearly a decade, receiving DFW
Critics' Forum Awards for his work as an actor ( Road at Kitchen Dog Theater),
playwright ( Barbette with Bill Lengfelder and Last One Nighter on the Death Trail
with Christina Vela) and puppeteer ( Gorey Stories and Dainty Shapes and Hairy Apes ,
both with Our Endeavors Theater Collective.) David is an
Artistic Associate with Kitchen Dog Theater and a teaching artist with
Junior Players. The youth educational play he co-authored with Christina Vela,
Around the World with Blackbrows the Pirate is now in it's third blockbuster
year, performing at cafetoriums across the DFW Metroplex.
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Valerie Hauss-Smith
A native of France, Valerie was a founding member of La Chimere Theatre Company
in Alsace where she performed original plays
both in French and German. She is delighted to now be a part of VOX.
She obtained her BFA at the University Of Strasbourg and came to the
United States where she studied voice and the English classics.
Valerie has performed on stages in Europe, the North East, and Texas;
her American credits include Beline in The Hypochondriac,
Carlotta in Cherry Orchard, Beatrice in
Much Ado About Nothing, Kristine Linde in
A Doll’s House, Eliante in The Misanthrope,
Olivia in Twelfth Night, Rosaline in
Love’s Labour’s Lost, Dromio Of Syracuse in
Comedy Of Errors and Andrea the Anchorwoman in
Mark Medoff’s world premier of Gunfighter: A Gulf War Chronicle.
She is now the Director of Education & Training for Shakespeare Dallas
where she develops educational programs for students from elementary
to college level.
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Anastasia Munoz
Anastasia has just moved back to her hometown of Dallas after receiving her B.A. in Theatre from
the University of Alabama. Her Dallas credits include Feste in Theatre Fusion’s
Twelfth Night and Hanna in Kitchen Dog’s New Works Festival Skin in Flames.
She is thrilled to work with VOX and Shakespeare Dallas on such a powerful and pertinent piece.
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Matt Tomlanovich
Originally from Michigan, Matt has lived, worked and studied in LA,
New York and London and now Dallas. He has a BGS from Oakland University,
An MFA in Acting from California Institute of the Arts and a Masters of Arts
in Vocal Studies from the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.
He has trained with Catherine Fitzmaurice, Cicely Berry, Dudley Knight,
Edna Sharpe, Frankie Armstrong, and Gillyanne Kayes among others.
He has taught voice and acting at SMU, Cal-Arts, The Actor Training Program
at the University of Utah, University of North Texas, Quad C, University of
Texas Dallas, and in London at the East 15 Acting School and Central School
of Speech and Drama. As a voice, text and dialect-coach Matt has worked in
London, New York and here in Dallas. Matt runs a voice and articulation
consulting company for individuals and businesses called Speaking For Success
working privately and in giving workshops with people who use there voice to
make a living. As an actor and director Matt has worked Off, and Off Off-Broadway,
in LA, Europe and numerous regional theatres.
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Keith Kubal
Keith is excited to be making his debut appearance with VOX. Keith was most
recently honored to appear as Capt. Philip Lombard in Ten Little Indians
at ICT MainStage. Other roles include Ray Dolenz in Proposals at
the Rotunda Theatre Series, Tom Bryce in The Unvarnished Truth at
ICT MainStage, and Camillo in The Winter’s Tale for Bucket Productions.
Keith holds a BFA in Theater from Adelphi University, New York, and is a graduate
of the British/American Drama Academy at Oxford, England. In addition to his
numerous stage credits, Keith has worked in film, video, and done voice work,
produced, directed, and sings. Keith is also involved in theater behind the
scenes by serving on the Boards of the Beardsley Living Theater, ICT and
The Column Awards Advisory Board.
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VOX in partnership with Shakespeare Dallas is devising "Lucrece" through
voice methodology rather than traditional theatrical means. Our attention
will be on how the language of this very mature piece can affect audiences
through sound. Unlike his much earlier and lighter Epic Poem,
"Venus and Adonis", "The Rape of Lucrece" reflects the richer language of
Shakespeare's later works. It explores dark and profound questions of the
nature of rape, violence, shame and empowerment echoing themes dramatized
in "Measure for Measure" and "Troilus and Cressida".
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Lucrece Ensemble
Emily Scott Banks
Mary Lang Fournier
David Goodwin
Valerie Hauss-Smith
Anastasia Munoz
Matt Tomlanovich
Keith Kubal
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The Story
The story takes place in ancient Rome: the head of the Tarquins
falls in lust with one of his Generals' wife after observing her.
Under the pretence of visiting her with news of her husband on
the war front, he tells her to submit to him or die in shame at
his hand: he will kill her and one of her male servants, who he
will place next to her nude, dead body, and then tell her husband
that he found the pair together and so killed them to avenge his
honor. Rather than leave her children motherless and husband
shamed she submits to his rape. She then contemplates her decision
and decides not to keep it secret. Ultimately, there is a public
uprising inspired by Lucrece and this violent act ends the rule
of the Tarquins and the founding of the Republic in Rome.
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