"The Arts are the
locale for a kind of guerilla warfare . . .
they're subtle so the Establishment gambles that they won't lead to anything
threatening.
But the Establishment often loses that gamble."
-Howard Zinn
2003
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Scrapbook
A melange of pictures from
our 2008 productions
Year: 2002
2003 2004
2005 2006
2007 2008
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The Gang's All Here!
The voluminous cast of our November/December production of THE DROP
HAMMER by our playhouse's very namesake -- Manny Fried as the second
production ever to be performed in our newly enshrined Manny Fried
Playhouse. Manny himself -- age 95 -- can be seen in the
bottom right of the photo.
The rest of the cast from left to right . . .
Top Row: Kevin Dennis*, Tim Eimiller, Marshall Maxwell*, Victor
Morales, Dave A. Hoffmann, Brian Zybala*, Tony Tyrpak*
Middle Row: Betsy Strother, Guy DeFedericis*, Robert
"Hodie" Hodas*, Anthony Giambrone, Dan Sterlace*, Erik
Eimiller, Jack Agugliaro*, stage manager Virginia Brannon*
Bottom Row: Leon S. Copeland, Jr.*, Director Kurt Schneiderman*,
Tom Izard*, Betsy Bittar, Playwright Manny Fried*. |
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Caught in the Middle!
Union Organizer Dave Sigmund (Tim Eimiller, center) pulls apart warring
Union President Stanley Gorski (Dave A. Hoffmann, left) and embattled
Financial Secretary Carl Morgan (Victor Morales, right) as accusations
fly out of control in Manny Fried's DROP
HAMMER at the Manny Fried Playhouse in November/December of
2008.
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The Faces Behind the
Characters:
In one of those rare beautiful moments where art, life, and world events
come together, Subversive Theatre had the opportunity to reprise
segments of our production of MY
NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE about the American Human Rights Activist
killed in the Gaza Strip for at a speech given by Rachel Corrie's real
life parents at the University at Buffalo in September of 2008.
Pictured left: Subversive Theatre's own Katie White* who played
Rachel in our rendition stands in between Craig and Cindy Corrie with
Subversive Theatre's Artistic Director Kurt Schneiderman* at their left. |
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Home At Last!
After six years of tumbleweed existence, Subversive Theatre at long last
established a home base founding the mighty "Manny Fried
Playhouse" out of a small warehouse space on the third
floor of North Buffalo's Great Arrow Building.
With our grand opening in September of 2008, we kicked off our
first-ever full season of plays with the Buffalo debut of Canadian
playwright Judith Thompson's PALACE
OF THE END starring Kelly Beuth* (left) as Abu Graib sadist
Lyndie England, Lawrence Rowswell* (center) as Britain's controversial
weapons inspector Dr. David Kelley, and Dana Block* (right) as the
persecuted Iraqi civil rights advocate Nehrjas Al Saffarh.
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Out There . . . And Then
Some!
Two fascist prison guards (mask-clad actresses Candice Kogut, left and
Mary Jayne Ertel, center right) drag wrongfully condemned muzzled prison
Pronos (Leonard Ziolkowski, center left) to his execution under the
haunting gaze of the unyielding warden (mask-clad Jessica Stuber*,
right) in our oh so experimental rendition of Fernando Arrabal's ...AND
THEY PUT HANDCUFFS ON THE FLOWERS. in the basement of the former
Kitchen Distribution Warehouse, July-August 2008, as part of the 2008
Buffalo "infringement" Festival. |
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Take This Job And Shove It!
Actors Moira Keenan (left), Jennifer Linch* (right), and Arianna Boykins
(center) make up just a few of the disgruntled employees of "Kenny's"
in our production of NICKEL
AND DIMED at the Alt Theatre in April-May of 2008.
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The Truth Will Out:
Actor Katie White* is deeply caught up in her e-mails reporting the
atrocities she witnessed in the Gaza Strip in MY
NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE at the Main Street Cabaret in March of
2008. |
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Overworked, Underpaid:
Actors Richard Lambert+ and Kate LoConti play the quintessential
struggling-to-get-by couple Joe & Edna in our Artie Award-winning rendition of Clifford Odets' WAITING
FOR LEFTY at the New Phoenix Theatre, Jan-Feb 2008.
Onlookers in the background from left to right: M. Joseph
Fratello, Rich Kraemer, and Hasheen DeBerry*.
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* = indicates members of the Subversive Theatre
Collective
+ = indicates members of the Actors' Equity Association
Year: 2002
2003 2004
2005 2006
2007 2008
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