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"I think the play is on
the amusing side and also
moving," says the New
York playwright. "It ques-
Performance Network launches its 2000-
tions the audience's ideas of
2001 season in a new theater located at 120
right and wrong, good and
E.
Huron, just a half block east of Main
bad. There is tremendous
Street
in downtown Ann Arbor.
conflict between two sis-
Located
within walking distance from
ters, and characters that
the
Kerrvtown
shopping district, the new
appear to be very altruistic
150-seat
theater
features wider, more com-
do things that are difficult
fortable
seats;
a
lobby
three times the size
not to judge in the context
of
the
old
one;
a
member
bar; convenient-
of the play. The audience
ly
located
restrooms;
rehearsal
hall; dress-
shifts constantly in think-
ing rooms; green room; offices and a grand
ing who is moral."
marquee on Huron.
Silver, who always had an
The company also is upgrading its equip-
interest in theater, tried
ment
and fixtures, including a larger, more
writing when he was 20,
effective
lighting system, sound system and
after deciding he would not
d
rapes.
be very marketable as an
After The Maiden's Prayer, the rest of the
actor. A student in the
season
includes:
Experimental Theatre
Wit, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by
Wing at New York
Margaret Edson that asks profound ques-
University, he started sub-
tions
about the value of "wit" in the face of
mitting plays after gradua-
life
and
death — Oct. 26-Nov. 19.
tion. A favorable review by
Fuddy
Meers, a comedy about a young
The New York Times helped
woman's
struggle to regain her fractured
get him noticed.
memory,
by David Lindsay-Abaire
Nov.
"I saw that most of the
30-Dec.
23.
plays produced were pretty
Maggie Rose, a new comedy about life in a
bad," he says. "If I could
trailer
park and the mysteries of the divine,
write one that was just
by
Kim
Carney — Feb. 1-March 4.
mediocre, [I was sure] I
Struggling
Truths, a play about the Chinese
could rise to the top, and
invasion
of
Tibet
and the family it tears
that's what I did."
apart,
by
Peter
Mellencamp
— March 15-
The playwright compares
April
8.
himself to the character
Art, the Tony Award-winning comedy
Paul in The Maiden's
about
modern art and friendship, by
Prayer. They share a ten-
Yasmina Reza — April 19-May 20.
dency to observe life
instead of participate in it.
"The germ of a play
ect, Silver likes to vegetate — smok-
comes from things I'm trying to fi g-
ing, watching television, walking his
ure out," he says. "When I get too
dog
and sticking to a diet. Once
frustrated or have questions about
extremely
overweight, he cut back
something, that's where the begin-
tremendously to lose 70 pounds and
ning of a play starts. For The
keep them off.
Maiden's Prayer, which is largely
"My goal is to keep doing what I'm
about unrequited love, the question
doing and survive doing it," says
was clear: How can I figure out how
Silver, who just completed a new
to have a life not being loved in
? ,,
play on commission for a theater
return
outside Los Angeles. "I think that
Ideas flesh out gradually for Silver,
everybody's career in the theater or
and he doesn't write until he knows a
the arts is cyclical, periods of popu-
fair amount about characters and
larity and periods without popularity.
their situations. He attributes his
My goal is to just stay afloat." ❑
love of language, words and educa-
tion to his Jewish background.
"I identify myself as a Jew, but I
1/4
don't practice very much," says,
The Maiden's Prayer will be per-
Silver, who brought Jewish characters
formed 8 p.m. Thursdays-
into The Food Chain, which starred
Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays,
Phyllis Newman and is about dog-
through Oct. 15, at the
eat-dog attitudes. "When the chips
Performance Network, 120 E.
are down in life, I rediscover my reli-
Huron, Ann Arbor. $ 14-$20.
gious training and background."
(734) 663-0681.
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