WORLD PREMIERE
Throwaway/Runaway
An original play about teenage homelessness by ArtLab. Presented in conjunction with the Dialog: City Initiative
WHEN: Wednesday, August 27, 5:00 pm
WHERE: Air Forest Pavilion, located
behind the Denver Museum of Nature & Science in City Park.
Directed by: José Mercado with Craig Volk & Mona Lucero.
Craig Volk, award-winning playwright, guided the students in writing the screenplay and fashion designer Mona Lucero worked with youth in creating portraits that will be integrated in the set. Created from a summer of improvisation, research, interviews and rehearsals, Throwaway/Runaway is a collage of monologues and scenes written by ArtLab. Performed by the youth that created the stories, Throwaway/Runaway examines the lives of today's youth who have run away from home or have been forced out of a dysfunctional home. The substitutes youth find for the loss of family and the tragedies that often result in the search for those substitutes are explored. The world premiere of Throwaway/Runaway was June 21, 2008. The play had its first staged reading in November at the Webb Atrium, with emcee Mayor Hickenlooper.
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