Fefu and her Friends, by Maria Irene Fornes November 12, 2010

Tin Lily Productions presents Maria Irene Fornes’ play, Fefu and her Friends, at the Center for Performance Research (www.cprnyc.org) 361 Manhattan Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Performances will run November 12-December 5: every Friday and Saturday evening at 8pm and Sunday matinee at 2pm; excluding the Thanksgiving weekend.

**** Fefu and her friends is an intelligent, dynamic and unsettling exploration of feminism, social expectation and individual empowerment. Tin lily has set the majority of the play in the round and then splits, according to Fornes’ alternative staging, the middle of the play into four scenes in four separate spaces occurring at the same time. The audience is an activated voyeur in the events of play. As the play begins in 1935, eight women arrive to rehearse for an educational fundraiser, but the events of the day digress and the play becomes a character study of women on the verge of either self awareness or martyrdom. Tin Lily is excited to present Fornes’s unique and challenging experience.****

(The play is directed by Jillian Johnson and the cast of Fefu features Tai Verley, Cait Bliss, Annie Branson, Sasha Kaye, Katie Middleton, Katie Stults, Kyle June Williams, and Nora Jane Williams. Stage Manger is Jessica Mason. Costumes are designed by Izzy Fields and lighting designed by Allison Carney.)

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