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“Sleep Rock Thy Brain” will premiere in the 37th annual Humana Festival of New American Plays
in March 2013 joining a prestigious catalog of work that
Actors Theater has launched into the American Theater repertoire
conceived by Actors Theater artistic staff members, Amy Attaway and Sarah Lunie,
The projects been developed in partnership with The University of Louisville,
The University of Louisville Department of Theater Arts, University of Louisville School of Medicine,
ZFX Flying Effects and Jefferson County Public Schools.
We’re really delighted to partner with one of Louisville’s most prestigious groups,
the Humana Festival of New American Plays which is produced by Actors Theater of Louisville.
This is the first time that the University has partnered with Actors but we’ve been looking
for a while about a project that we could do together and we hope that this will be the first of many more.
We’re also thrilled to partner with ZFX, without whom this project would never fly, that was a joke, um.
Another partner is Lincoln Elementary school and UofL has a long history of working with
JCPS to improve the lives and education of our students.
This is another great example of how we partner in the community.
This play “Sleep Rock Thy Brain” was written by three talented playwrights who
were smart enough to reach out and collaborate with our doctors at the Sleep Center at UofL’s School of Medicine.
From now until the play opens in 2013, our UofL Theater students will be watching the process of the play,
the rehearsals and everything with the, involving a top flight play, and this, of course, is
how a metropolitan partnership works we have a sleep center, they do research on sleep,
that research can get translated in an artistic representation, that can not only be performed by Actors
but gives our students the opportunity to also perform the play and work
with the talented professionals who are already out in the field.
It’s our job to get the audience to believe what they’re seeing,
when we fly people the first thing they say is ‘I can see the harnesses, I can see the cable ,’ well,
of course you can people can’t really fly, but we have to get that out of their mind quickly
and have them get to the pretend place that the director and the choreographer and the playwrights have in their mind,
so our jobs as artists, we’re not just to vendor, but our job as an artist is to take
that vision out of their minds and put it on stage and get people to believable fast.