TERRE OUWEHAND PLAYS
PUBLISHED BY ARAN PRESS
NAKED LONGINGS
by Terre Ouwehand
Variable cast size. Full-length. Experimental. Set: area staging.
Grief, maturing, and personal transformation are the general focus of this
abstract play which is a portrait of the artist as a young archetype. First
produced at Center Stage, Santa Barbara, California. "Falling somewhere
between playwright Arthur Miller and post-modern performance art NAKED
LONGINGS is arguably the only experimental theatre being performed in
a Central Coast profes sional theatre venue. A unique experience" Bill
Anerson, The Santa Barbara Independent. "NAKED LONGINGS is
an ambitious worka dense, brooding mediation on the sufferings and lost
possibilities confronted in the painful rites of passage to self-realization
a mythic quest steeped in ritualistic imagery Ouwehand writes with undeniable
power and conviction, and her dialogue has a poetic, even hypnotic appeal"
Philip Brandes, Los Angeles Times/Ventura &The Santa Barbara News
Press. Book $4.50. Royalty $30-$20.
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THE STUDIO & ARE YOU STILL HERE?
by Terre Ouwehand
"The Studio"Cast: 6 women. One act. Set: a large art studio.
"Are You Still Here?" Cast: 2 senior men. One act. Set: a retirement
home. In THE STUDIO Georgia O'Keeffe, Mary Cassatt and Grandma Moses
are alive and lively in this orchestration of art
and life. With fellow painter, Romaine Brooks, sculptor Harriet Hosmer,
and basket-maker Dat-So -La-Lee, they share their personal storiesthe challenges,
surprises, the sorrows and triumphs of being an artist, and a woman, in
America's emerging modern culture. "Extremely rewarding and entertainingmaking
a delightful, perceptive experience from which one could and did, learn
and enjoy," Deborah Tufts, Curator of Education, Santa Barbara Museum
of Art. "Enchantingwell -wrought" Faculty Voice, Santa
Barbara City College. This collage of American women artists from 1850 to
1950 can be easily excerpted for shorter programming needs. In ARE YOU
STILL HERE? the ultimate question is bantered about by Charlie and Bert
as they engage daily in a ritual game of chess, in a retirement home. But
today their casual battle of wits opens to unexpected territory. Humorous
and poignant. A good companion piece for any program. Book $3.50. Royalty
$30 - $20. (both) $15 - $10 (individually).