{"id":127397,"date":"2020-10-02T10:37:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T16:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=127397"},"modified":"2020-10-30T11:07:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T17:07:22","slug":"house-arrest-a-play-by-anna-deavere-smith-will-run-virtually-oct-22-nov-1-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=127397","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHouse Arrest,\u201d a play by Anna Deavere Smith, will run virtually Oct. 22-Nov. 1, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cYou can be the most powerful person in the world… The price is that everybody is going to know everything you do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2000, Anna Deavere Smith debuted her documentary theatre piece \u201cHouse Arrest<\/a>: A Search for Character in and Around the White House, past and present.\u201d Smith created the work from historical source materials and verbatim interviews with people ranging from Studs Terkel to Anita Hill to ask how the American presidency has changed during the last 200 years and in more recent years, what roles race, gender and celebrity have played in these dynamics. Now during the 2020 presidential election, Theatreworks is bringing her investigation to life\u2014streaming Oct. 22 through Nov. 1, 2020 as part of national Arts Month. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To bring this work to life, eight directors are working with a 16 actor cast, all rehearsing individual monologues virtually over Zoom. Theatreworks then safely filmed the actors at the Ent Center for the Arts, and edit them together into a single, streamable theatre event which speaks to the heart of leadership and power in this country. The play features more than 40 characters, from Thomas Jefferson through Bill Clinton, and an array of both Washington insiders and folks from outside the beltway. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During those same two weeks, Theatreworks will offer a companion piece of original monologues drawn from interviews UCCS students are holding with Pikes Peak regional elected officials and election insiders. Theatreworks will also share virtual panel discussions and scholar chats about elections, arts and the American presidency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Artistic Director Caitlin Lowans shares that \u201cthe national dialogue about leadership is one of the most important conversations to have this fall. Theatreworks is so excited that our first, fully produced streaming event offers such a rich jumping off point for investigating what each of us seeks in our leaders\u2014and how they rise or fall under the close gaze of the public eye. We couldn\u2019t be luckier in the team of artists we\u2019ve assembled to bring Anna Deavere Smith\u2019s world to life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n