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RTW presents Oriki Omi Oddara
Award Winning & Exciting
Afro-Cuban Dance Company
at Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Theatre w 46th St New York City
March, 2007
Senator Hillary Clinton
greets RTW Artistic Associates
Rick Montalvo, left, and
Hank Wagner, right, at reception
in New York City
 Students at PS752Q
Join in an Indian Pow Wow
and Dance to the Beat
of Native American
Drums & Chants
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Long Island City, October 17, 2006 - For Immediate Release
InCollaboration Returns to Live Production After Three-Year Absence
InCollaboration, Inc. also widely known as the Readers Theatre Workshop, a 23-years young, Queens touring theatre group, is pleased to announce the resumption, after a three-year hiatus imposed by budgetary cuts and production losses, of its presentation of live theatre pieces for young audiences.
According to Robert McInnes, the Company's Managing Director, "While the new production plans will, of course, include a return to our renowned and award-winning original musical theatre productions, we will also be featuring, for the first time, the presentation of more serious, dramatic pieces, using mostly one actor, one-act pieces featuring the giants of history and some less well-known heroes and heroines of our own and times past, as part of our History, Civics and Social Studies Arts-in-the-Schools related series".
Among the historical characters the Company plans to bring to life in its series of one-act, biographical moments-from -history plays, are such diverse spirits as:
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In "Twilight of the Khemet" Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, loses Caesar, finds Antony, calls her Council to War, loses the war to Rome, and dies of a snakebite, all in Alexandria, circa 36 to 30 B.C.; |
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"Frankly, Ben" - Ben Franklin in Philadelphia; a bittersweet look at Franklin after the "Eagle" has flown, circa 1776; |
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"Dear John": Intelligent, outspoken and opinionated, Abigail Adams, in Boston, sends more than one "Dear John" letter to her husband, future president John Adams, in Philadelphia 1774-1776; |
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"Crossing Over": Martin Luther King, Jr., from Washington to Memphis; from having a Washington "Dream" to standing "on the (Memphis) Mountaintop" c1963-1968); |
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"Jumpin' Jack Flash", recreates the fight of the century between the then reigning Black heavyweight boxing champ, Jack Johnson, and his opponent, Jim Jeffries, the so-called "Great White Hope", c1910-1913; |
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Visionary genius John Augustus Roebling has "A Bridge for Sale", to the Cities of Brooklyn and New York, circa 1867-1869 but first he must overcome the opposition of the hostile and skeptical (and maybe a bit jealous?) John McKeed, New York City's Chief Civil Engineer; |
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In "Her Heart's a' Fire", fugitive slave, early activist, and later, Civil War spy for the Union, Harriet Tubman, builds and runs the Underground Railroad circa 1850-1860; |
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In "E Pluribus Unum" labor leader and social change activist Cesar Chavez rises to the top, starts a movement, forms a union and changes history in the California grape and lettuce fields, circa 1970; |
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and many, many others in an ongoing series. |
Concluded Mr. McInnes, "We are very excited about this association of like-minded artists and look forward to working closely with everyone involved to make this series a thrilling and successful reality for all concerned".
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