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COMING IN SPRING, 2009! A NEW PRODUCTION OF NIGHT SKY
to be produced off-Broadway by Power Productions/Stan Raiff in association with the National Aphasia Association and directed by Daniella Topol

Night Sky

NIGHT SKY is the drama of Anna, a brilliant astronomer who is struck by a car and rendered aphasic.
Her speech becomes a hodgepodge of disconnected words alternately poetic, funny, confusing and
profound. She and her family must fight through the black holes of her mind and journey into an
unfamiliar world and a new language. This is a work about the resiliency of the human spirit and the
universal need to find words for our deepest thoughts and feelings.

VARIETY: NIGHT SKY is a rare thing: a play with a mind. It is also about the mind as universe, where
language is internal astronomy. It shows us that more than hearts can be broken.

SUNDAY STAR, JOHANNESBURG: A mind lost in a black hole, groping for words in the spaces between stars,
struggling to communicate with "elephants on tongue" – a fascinating play, interweaving tragedy and emotion
with the enduring mystery of the cosmos.

For information about the play or upcoming production: Contact Robert Freedman at Robert Freedman Dramatic Agency, 212 840-5760 or RFreedmanagent@aol.com

NIGHT SKY will also be produced at Theatre Ontario, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, in February, 2009. www.imperialtheatre.net

FEATURED NEW PROJECT -- "SEVEN"

Recent performances in Deauville, France; Stockholm, Sweden; and Washington, D.C.

Seven award-winning playwrights — Paula Cizmar, Catherine Filloux, Gail Kriegel, Carol K. Mack, Ruth Margraff, Anna Deavere Smith, and Susan Yankowitz— have created a collaborative work for the theatre based upon personal interviews and oral histories of seven extraordinary women whose work benefits the citizens of their diverse cultures: Russia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Afghanistan, Guatemala, and Cambodia. The play is a testament to their extraordinary acts and common humanity in the face of injustice and violence. It had a world premiere in a staged reading that was directed by Evan Yionoulis at the 92nd St Y in New York. SEVEN was created with the support of Vital Voices Global Partnership (www.vitalvoices.org).

Susan Yankowitz has written about MUKHTAR MAI who was gang raped by four men in her native Pakistan and forced to walk home almost naked in retribution for an alleged 'honor crime.' Rather than commit suicide, Muktar decided to bring her rapists to justice and improve the condition of women by building schools in the poorest regions of her country. She has since become an international force for women's rights and education.

Access this link for a rave account of the evening on The Huffington Post by Marcia Yerman (www.huffingtonpost.com/marcia-g-yerman/world-premiere-of-seve_b_83951.html)

Access this link for an article about the Washington, DC performance on November 12th: “SEVEN’ Women in the Roles of a Dramatic Lifetime. "

Click to hear an interview with Susan Yankowitz, Carol Mack and Inez McCormack on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show or go to www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2008/01/18

For more information on this project, please go to www.seventheplay.com or contact rfreedmanagent@aol.com

CROSSWORD PUZZLE SURPRISE!

Look at the highlighted clues in the Times Literary Supplement puzzle of September 28, 2007 –
Click here to download the pdf version of the puzzle

And check out the solution!