THE ARCHITECTURE OF LOSS

By Julia Cho
Direction – Chay Yew

Set Design – Riccardo Hernandez
Costume Design – Linda Cho
Lighting Design – M.L. Geiger
Sound Design – Jill B.C. Du Boff
Production Stage Management – Timothy R. Semon

Cast (in alphabetical order):
Carmie…………………..Angel Desai
Catherine………..……..Mia Katigbak
Jay………………...……....Jason Lew
Richard.……….……...Will Marchetti
Tim………..….……Matthew Saldivar
Greg….………………...Victor Slezak
Rob; The Boy….………....Eric Wippo

Facility:
4th Street Theatre

Facility Address:
83 East 4th Street. Located between Bowery and Second Avenue in the East Village.

Prices:
All tickets, $20.00

Description:
As The Architecture of Loss begins, Greg unexpectedly returns to Tucson, to the family that he fled over a decade earlier. Greg's reunion does not go as he planned when he finds out that his young son, David, disappeared sometime after he left. With lost possibilities and unfulfilled expectations hovering in the intense August heat, Greg, his wife, Catherine, and their daughter, Carmie, re-live David's disappearance as events are colored through the conflicting memories of wife and daughter. Despite great loss, each day whispers with promises of hope in the face of incalculable loss and the arrival of a cooling rain.

Julia Cho has been a two-time NYTW Emerging Artist of Color Fellow and, along with director Chay Yew, has developed The Architecture of Loss at New York Theatre Workshop over several years.

Dates:
First preview, Friday, December 19, 2003; opening, Sunday, January 11, 2004;
final performance, Sunday, January 25, 2004

Performance schedule:
Tuesday - Friday, 7:30pm; Saturday, 1:30pm and 7:30pm; Sunday, 1:30pm

Exceptions:
Monday, December 22, special 7:30pm performance
Wednesday, December 24, no performance (Christmas eve)
Thursday, December 25, no performance (Christmas)
Sunday, December 28, special 7:30pm performance
Monday, December 29, special 7:30pm performance
Wednesday, December 31, no performance (New Year’s eve)

AfterWords (post-performance discussions):
Saturday, January 3, 1:30pm
Tuesday, January 6, 7:30pm
Wednesday, January 21, 7:30pm
Saturday, January 24, 7:30pm

Running time:
Approximately 90 minutes, no intermission

About the artists:
Julia Cho has developed her plays at New York Theatre Workshop, Seattle Repertory Theatre, The Sundance Theatre Lab, The Mark Taper Forum and South Coast Repertory. She has been a playwriting fellow at The Juilliard School and a recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts grant. Her play, 99 Histories, was featured in The Cherry Lane Alternative's Mentor Series and was also a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.

Chay Yew's directing credits include The Laramie Project (cited by Seattle Times, Seattle Post-Intelligencer and The Stranger's as one the best achievements in theatre of 2001; best director by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer), Red (Los Angeles Times' Top Ten Productions of 2001; nominated for the Ovation for Best Production of 2001), Golden Child (Los Angeles Times' and the New Times' Top Ten Productions of 2000), The House of Bernarda Alba, Sisters Matsumoto, Big Hunk O' Burnin' Love, A Beautiful Country and Rice Boy. Other directing credits include Alec Mapa's I Remember Mapa and Pointless, Margaret Cho's Mondo Cho, Sandra Tsing Loh's Depth Becomes Her, Brian Freeman's Civil Sex, James Sie's Talking With My Hands, Wei Jingsheng's The Courage To Stand Alone, David Schmader's Straight, Denise Uyehara's Maps Of Body And City and Home: Places Between Asia and America. He has directed for the Mark Taper Forum, Empty Space, East West Players, National Asian American Theatre Company, Singapore Repertory Theatre, Northwest Asian American Theatre, Highways Performance Space, Theatre Rhinoceros and


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