Brett Singer & Associates, LLC
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, PLEASE
Synapse Productions To Present
April
18, 2005
Synapse
Productions continues their fifth season with THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD. The
one-woman play by Mari Brown will be directed by Ms. Brown and David Travis (Animal
Farm, The God Botherers) and performed by Deanna Pacelli. Performances at Performance Space 122 (P.S.
122) will begin on Thursday, May 12th and will continue through
Sunday, May 29th.
Deanna Pacelli and Mari Brown moved to Smith Street
the year it became known as "Brooklyn's Restaurant Row." Being starving artists, they naturally
started bartending on the Row to make ends meet. They soon realized there was more to the Row – and the rapidly
gentrifying Carroll Gardens – than met the eye. Customers and neighbors gave them earfuls of opinions: many were
vehemently against the change, many were passionately for the change; everyone
had something to say. Mari and Deanna
knew they had a play on their hands.
Four years, dozens of interviews, and hundreds of
conversations later, THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD emerged – a one-woman
show based on the words and views of the people of Carroll Gardens, who offer
an insider's look at the phenomenon of gentrification in New York City.
In the play, a diverse array of residents –
including an Italian deli owner, a Latina teenager, a gay yuppie activist, a
hip-hop Deejay and an Asian nightclub owner – explain how a once Italian
working-class community went from “crack to baguettes” in less than a decade.
THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD was produced in 2003 at
Quench, a Carroll Gardens bar. Featured
on the cover of the Metro section of The New York Times on November 14th, 2003,
the first engagement of this show led Brooklyn Borough President Marty
Markowitz to declare December 13 “There Goes the Neighborhood Day!”
Deanna Pacelli (performer) is a graduate of New York
University's Experimental Theatre Wing. She has performed in various theatres
in Brooklyn and Manhattan as well as in Chicago and San Francisco. Mari Brown (playwright and co-director) is
the founder of Little Red Writing Group, a writers' collective which was
recently featured on ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, and written
about in the New York Observer and Forbes magazine. David Travis (co-director) has directed several shows for Synapse
Productions, including the American Premiere of The God Botherers by
Richard Bean, the Drama Desk Award-nominated Animal Farm (the Puppet
Musical), The Chicago Conspiracy Trial at the Culture Project and
his own multi-media retranslation of Euripides’ The Phoenician Women at
the Ohio Theater.
Synapse Productions, now in its fifth season, has
gained a reputation for producing challenging and provocative plays that
address contemporary cultural issues and get people talking. The New York Times
said of the Drama Desk Award-nominated Orwell Project: “There is nothing
more socially relevant on the boards in New York.”
THERE
GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD will begin performances on Thursday, May 12th
and will continue through Sunday, May 29th. Performances will be Thursdays through
Saturdays at 8:00pm, and Sundays at 5:00pm.
Tickets will be $15, $12 tickets for students and seniors are available
at the box office. Tickets may be
purchased by calling 212–477–5288, or online at www.synapseproductions.org. Photos will be available for download at www.brettsinger.com/clients/synapse05.html.
THERE
GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD
Written by Mari Brown
Performed by Deanna Pacelli
Directed by Mari Brown and
David Travis
At P.S. 122, 150 First
Avenue (at East 9th Street)
SCHEDULE: Thursdays through
Saturdays at 8:00pm, Sundays at 5:00pm
Thursday, May 12th
through Sunday, May 29th
TICKETS: $15,
$12 for students and seniors; Call 212–477–5288 or visit
www.synapseproductions.org
311 West 43rd Street, Suite #1107 phone: (212)307-7181
New York, NY 10036 Fax: (212)307-7178