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June 16, 2008 – The Midtown International
Theatre Festival will include award-winning playwright Monica Bauer's latest
work, THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF KHALID AMIR. This fast-paced political
satire is being directed by Craig J. George (the off-Broadway play Alfred
Kinsey: A Love Story) and features Amir Darvish (who played Freddie Mercury
in the off-Broadway hit Mercury) leading a cast of seven. Performances will be at the Workshop
Theater Mainstage, located at 312 West 36th Street. Performances will begin on Tuesday, July 15th and will continue through Sunday,
August 3rd.
About The
Play
The Mad
Burka Army from the tiny Gulf nation of Abed has burka-ed the Statue of
Liberty, and is on a rampage across the USA, burka-ing statues of Greek nymphs
and billboards of Angelina Jolie. Suspicion lands on mild-mannered, musical
theater loving Abedian professor Khalid Amir. Fueled by the ravings of local
television idiot Barry Overdrive, the Governor leans hard on the president of
the college, the sexy French former track coach Lucille Ferret, to hunt down the
now-missing Amir. President Ferret also
fires a fiery Latina defender of Khalid, Juanita Juarez. The head of the
Political Science department, former 60’s radical Norm Yablonsky, calls a
faculty strike in support of Khalid and Juanita, which causes his love affair
with the college president to come to an abrupt halt. Meanwhile, Agent Stewart
of the FBI stalks them all, because Khalid’s name has shown up on numerous
watch lists: “Israeli intelligence, Interpol, Google.”
Will Norm
Yablonsky rediscover his 60’s-fueled courage to “fight the power” one more time
and save his friends? What sexy secret is Juanita Juarez hiding under her
burka? Can Khalid use a secret love affair from his own past to save the day?
And what happens when Agent Stewart shoots off his own thumb? Find out at the
Midtown International Theater Festival’s production of THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF KHALID AMIR.
About The Cast and Creative Team
The cast for THE HIGHER
EDUCATION OF KHALID AMIR includes
Joan Barber (Broadway credits include MAN OF LA MANCHA opposite Raul Julia,
FOLLIES, THE SOUND OF MUSIC, and many others), Amir Darvish (Off-Broadway's Mercury:
The Afterlife & Times of a Rock God, playing the lead singer of Queen;
his many television and film credits include Charlie Wilson’s War and Sex
and the City, and also the smash-hit video game "Grand Theft Auto
IV"), Alexander
Elisa (The Classical Theatre of Harlem's
Black Nativity at The Duke on 42nd Street), Amanda Duarte (Old
Money for Theatreworks, also "Law & Order: Criminal Intent"),
John Fico (the premiere of A. R. Gurney’s Screen Play directed by Jim
Simpson at the Flea), Norm Golden
("Guiding Light", "Law &
Order: Criminal Intent"), and Tyler
Hollinger (Fools In Love at BAM,
"All My Children", and the film "Before The Devil Knows You're
Dead").
The design team will be Andis Gjoni
(Sets), Elliot Lanes (Lighting and Sound Design)
and Irma Escobar (Costumes).
Craig J. George, who
most recently staged The Taming of the Shrew at the Duke on 42nd
Street, will direct.
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The Midtown International Theatre Festival presents THE
HIGHER EDUCATION OF KHALID AMIR
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About the Author
Monica Bauer is a
graduate of Brown and Yale, and was the 2005 Teaching Fellow in the Graduate
Playwriting Program at Boston University.
She has studied playwriting with Kate Snodgrass, Gary Garrison, and
Craig Lucas. Awards include third place in New Works for Young Women (The
Maternal Instinct), and the Audience Favorite Award at Short Attention Span
PlayFest (My Trip to the State Pen). Her plays have been produced in
Denver, Boston, Cambridge, Atlanta, San Diego, Providence, and New York. Her
short play, Two Men Walked Into a Bar, was a semifinalist in this year’s
Turnip/American Globe Theater 15 Minute Play Festival. Her self-esteem comedy, The
Diet Monologues, has been published by JAC Publications. Diet
Monologues: The Musical will be seen in a staged reading at the York
Theater’s Developmental Series for New Musicals. She was invited to both the
Great Plains Theater Conference and the Kennedy Center Summer Playwriting
Intensive in 2007. Her play about race, jazz, and Nebraska (My Occasion of
Sin) was developed through the support of the Hixson-Lied Foundation at
Nebraska Repertory Theater. She is a proud member of ASCAP and The Dramatists
Guild.
THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF KHALID AMIR will play the following schedule:
Tuesday, July 15th at 8:30pm
Friday, July 18th at 6:00pm
Sunday, July 20th at 7:30pm
Saturday, July 26th at 12:30pm
Saturday, August 2nd at 2:30pm
Sunday, August 3rd at 12:00pm
Tickets will be $18.00 for all performances. Tickets may be purchased by calling TicketCentral at 212-279-4200, or online at TicketCentral.com.
Part of The Midtown
International Theatre Festival
At the Workshop Theater
Mainstage, 312 West 36th Street
TICKETS: $18 ($15 for students and seniors)
Call 212-279-4200, or order
online at TicketCentral.com
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