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http://www.crossingtheblvd.org Booking Contact: info@earsay.org
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Denial of the Fittest is a one woman show that interweaves family secrets and public lies. Featuring a dozen characters in the person of actress performance artist Judith Sloan, this funny and haunting work traverses a Jewish family's taboos, nervous breakthroughs, nuclear meltdowns, beauty school and an ever-expanding hole in the ozone layer. It is a chronicle of memory and transformation, based on Judith's own coming to terms with the deaths of her father and grandmother when she was a young girl. Denial of the Fittest is a madcap look at the effects of whispers, silence and lies within a nuclear family and the nuclear secrets of a global family. Running time: one hour, twenty minutes. Workshop performances originally developed at La Mama ETC. It received critical acclaim at Edinburgh Fringe Festival and has been produced in theaters, universities and conferences throughout the USA and in Canada.
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Judith Sloan portrays a muckraking southern woman with a sharp ironic wit, riding a roller coaster through an incestuous Mississippi legal system made up of frightening, odd and quirky characters. A Tattle Tale, the story of a teenage runaway, turned deputy sheriff, turned whistleblower, bears witness to coming of age in the face of hypocrisy and lawlessness. Inspired by the true story of Andrea Gibbs, who in 1989, sworn to uphold the law, blew the whistle on her superior officers for the brutal treatment of juvenile offenders in detention centers and prisons in Mississippi. In 1993, her efforts culminated in federal investigations and closings of prisons that were deemed "barbaric and unfit for human habitation." Running time: one hour, fifteen minutes. Workshop performances originally developed at La Mama ETC. It premiered (1998) at Independent Performance Space at HERE, in New York, and has been produced in theaters, universities and conferences throughout the USA.
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This reading/performance features a selection of monologues from the first four books in the Portrait Series, which celebrate the riotous and heartfelt stories and perspectives of American eccentrics. "Lehrer's animated readings bring to life the sit-down comedians, stoop philosophers, and off-the-cuff poets who are the subjects of his acclaimed series: a retired dockworker, an ordained minister turned street poet and raconteur, a gifted musician struggling with manic depression, and an orphaned citizen of the world and renaissance man." In addition to performing selections from the books, I discuss my relationships with the subjects and my process writing and designing the books.
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Judith Sloan - who combines "fine acting that gives her performance depth and texture" (Variety), with "exquisite comic timing" (Indianapolis Star), "wickedly skewers stereotypes" (The Village Voice) - transforms into a myriad of characters in a full-length comic performance filled with laughter and tears. Judith's character-driven monologues reveal the hypocrisy that lies beneath our information-glutted lives. Working in the comedic tradition of Lily Tomlin and Whoopi Goldberg, her characters challenge common assumptions about war and peace, women, generational struggle, gay and heterosexual relationships, and the ties that bind friends and family. Her monologues in this show are peppered with up-to-the-minute commentary on world affairs. For booking info, email: info@earsay.org
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Performed by Judith Sloan. Written by Judith Sloan in collaboration with Warren Lehrer. Directed By Lehrer.
An hour length performance/reading. Also an hour-and-a-half performance/reading with Warren Lehrer and Judith Sloan.
