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A Very Nice Panel on 'Dionysus'​

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Campbell O'Hare, Actor and Wilma HotHouse Company Member, reads from the role of Arsinoe in Kate Tarker's "Dionysus Was Such A Nice Man."Campbell O'Hare, Actor and Wilma HotHouse Company Member, reads from the role of Arsinoe in Kate Tarker's "Dionysus Was Such A Nice Man."
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Photo of Leo Sweeney by Matt Saunders, used with permission from Wilma Theater

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Kate Tarker: "it's celebrating and accepting and railing against ... and laugh-crying about our most uncontrollable urges, which are part of what makes us human...."
Thursday, April 18, 2019  |  5:30 to 7 p.m.
Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, 6th Floor
Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, University of Pennsylvania
3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia

Free and open to the public​
​​Wilma Theater
Producer Mari Shaw
​and
​
The Philadelphia Avant-Garde Studies Consortium (PASC)
are pleased to present

"A Very Nice Panel on Dionysus,"
​

Readings from Kate Tarker's "Dionysus Was Such A Nice Man"
​
by members of the Wilma HotHouse Company,
and panel discussion with the playwright


Commissioned by Wilma Theater, the play's world premiere is
 April 23 through May 12, 2019.
Directed by 
Dominique Serrand
(For information and tickets to the play, visit
Wilma Theater's website here.)
 
Program included:

Playwright: Kate Tarker

Panel Moderator: Mari Shaw    

Panelists and discussion:
​
Walter Bilderback
, Dramaturg/Literary Manager, Wilma Theater
​John Heon, Co-Director, PASC
Neil Kutner, Interim Managing Director, Wilma Theater
 

Rosemary Malague, Program Director & Senior Lecturer in Theatre Arts, University of Pennsylvania 
Jessica Rizzo, Writer, Director and Dramaturg
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More About 'Dionysus Was Such A Nice Man'

Kate Tarker published a blog about the process of writing "Dionysus Was Such A Nice Man," commissioned by Wilma Theater
through the 
Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation’s Woman Playwrights Commissioning Program.
"They gave me deadlines for the blog, but not the play," says Kate.

Among our favorite lines from Kate's blog is,
​"...w
ould I rather someday win an Obie, or an Obscenity Charge? And I kind of think, Obscenity Charge has more potential."
 Read on, here.

Dramaturg Jessica Rizzo interviewed Kate Tarker for www.artblog.org, the award-winning
​Philadelphia-based online publication and community founded in 2003; both the text and the audio are here.  

More About Wilma Theater's HotHouse Company

The Philadelphia Avant-Garde Studies Consortium would like to thank the following for their generous support, financial and in kind: 
​
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
David McKnight,
PASC Co-Director and 
Director of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Kislak Center
William Noel, Associate Vice Provost for Special Collections & External Strategic Partnerships, 
Director of the Kislak Center & the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies
Elizabeth Bates, Director, Operations, Kislak Center
Aleta Arthurs, Manager, Meetings & Special Programs, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
John Heon, PASC Co-Director
Neil Kutner, Interim Managing Director, Wilma Theater
Shawn Stone, Marketing Director, Wilma Theater
Mari Shaw, Producer, Former Chair and Board Member Emeritus, Wilma Theater​
Blanka Zizka, Artistic Director, Wilma Theater
Walter Bilderback, Dramaturg/Literary Manager, Wilma Theater
Frank Nardi, Jr., Actor and Wilma HotHouse Company Member
Campbell O'Hare, Actor and Wilma HotHouse Company Member
Emily Brewton Schilling, James E. Brewton Foundation

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  • Home | About
  • Projects | Events
    • Upcoming >
      • Past recommended events
    • Avant Green
    • Absurd
    • Illuminating the 'Invisible City' | November 2019
    • A very nice panel on 'Dionysus' | April 2019
    • The 'Vivifying Current of Science' | December 2018
    • Apolitical, My Ars! | December 2017
    • RE: ACT | March 2017
    • Re: Actions | December 2016
    • Locating the Avant-Garde | October 2015
    • Philadelphia à la Pataphysique | March 2014
  • Interviews | Blog
    • Metafiction by Matt Madden | October 2021
    • Matt Madden's EX LIBRIS | September 2021
    • Slought Statement | March 2020
    • Black Women Make Art by Janyce Denise Glasper
    • Charles Bernstein wins Bollingen Prize
    • Cheryl Harper interview by John Heon
    • Slought Post-Election Statement
    • A Necessary Luxury by Tina Brock
    • Jim Brewton by Emily Schilling
    • Workshop Series at Princeton
    • Welcome to PASC
  • Partners | Presenters
  • Calls for Papers
  • Contact us