 "Redundancy"
by Mark Nowak of Minneapolis, Minnesota
About the Play:
In the objectivist tradition of Peter Weiss
(-Discourse on Vietnam-) and Charles Reznikoff (-Testimony: The United
States-), "Redundancy" lays bare the facts of second-wave
(post-NAFTA) deindustrialization across America.
"The text of the play is culled verbatim
from the pages of the newsletter Plant Closing News,"
explains the playwright.
"'Redundancy' is intended to reminds us that the forces
that brought a city like Buffalo to its knees in the 1980s have
not disappeared in the new millennium--they have simply expanded to engulf the
entire country, the entire continent, and," he continues, "if
the pending Free Trade Area of the Americas agreement passes, the entire
hemisphere from the Northwest Territories to the tip of Patagonia."
About the Play's Production History:
Our rendition is the world debut of "Redundancy."
 About the Playwright:
A Buffalo native who currently resides in
Minneapolis, MN, Mark Nowak is
the author of "Revenants,"
"Shut Up Shut Down"
(afterword by Amiri Baraka), and co-editor (with Diane Glancy) of "Visit
Teepee Town: Native Writings after the Detours", all from Coffee
House Press. He is the editor of the journal
Xco: Cross Cultural Poetics and founder of the
Union of Radical Workers and Writers.
His
verse play "Capitalization" (about Reagan's firing of
striking PATCO workers) won a development grant from the Stage Left Theatre in
Chicago, where it premiered in 2004; another verse play about a Teamster
organizer, "Francine Michalek Drives Bread", premiered at UAW
Local 879 in St. Paul, Minnesota, in March 2003.
About our Rendition:
The third offering in our ongoing nightly showcase, "sUBVERsIVE
sHORTs," "Redundancy" features the following cast
& crew:
Rick Lattimer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director
Sarah Orloff* . . "Famous TV News Anchor"
Donald Gallo . "F-500 Corporate Executive"
Jeannine Giffear* . . . . . . "Laid-off Worker"
Joe Weins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Revolutionary"
* = indicates members of the Subversive Theatre Collective
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