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Futura
The National Asian American Theater Company presents Futura, a play in which a rogue professor sets out to avenge her missing husband - and the lost art of ink on paper - by conducting a dangerous lesson on typography.
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Can a font change the future? On her first day back at the University, a rogue Professor sets out to avenge her missing husband - and the lost art of ink on paper - by conducting a dangerous lesson on typography. When the Professor's lecture jumps the rails, we peer into a near future where desperate people search for the tangible in an ever more virtual age.
futura
With: Edward Hajj, Mia Katigbak, Angela Lin, Christopher Larkin
Set: David Morris
Costumes: Olivera Gajic
Lights: Raquel Davis
Projections: Tal Yarden
Sound: Matt Hubbs
Dramaturg: Vanessa Banta
Stage Manager: Irena Cumbow
Directed by Liz Diamond
Written by Jordan Harrison
October 26 - November 13, 2010
Previews: October 23, 25
Mondays - Saturdays, 7:00; Saturdays, 3:00
Produced by special arrangement with The Theatre@ Boston Court, Pasadena, CA and Portland Center Stage, Portland, OR. FUTURA was developed by NAATCO & New Dramatists as part of New Dramatists' Full Stage NYC, a program made possible by New York City's Theater Subdistrict Council and Time Warner.
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