{"id":34603,"date":"2016-10-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/play-by-theatre-chair-completes-successful-run-in-maine\/"},"modified":"2024-06-03T09:54:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T13:54:17","slug":"play-by-theatre-chair-completes-successful-run-in-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/news\/play-theatre-chair-completes-successful-run-maine\/","title":{"rendered":"Play by Theatre Chair Completes Successful Run in Maine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><em>Nina, <\/em>a play by Department of Theatre Chair Lynne Conner, has completed a successful run at the Theatre Project in Brunswick, Maine, opening the company\u2019s 45th anniversary season.<\/p>\n<p><em>Nina<\/em> focuses on the lives of two concentration camp survivors whose 50-year friendship is being challenged by the death of a daughter. Set in the mid-1980s, the action moves back and forth between the locker room of the Jewish Community Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the lawn of a summer retreat, as the two life-long friends struggle to understand their roles as mothers of \u201cAmerican\u201d children who have not suffered\u2014or so they believe. Ultimately, <em>Nina<\/em> is a journey into identity, loss, memory, and the power of female friendship.<\/p>\n<p><em>Nina<\/em> is the recipient of several awards, including the Gemini Theater New Play Festival competition, the Smith College New Play Festival competition, the Dorothy Silver Playwriting Award (finalist) and the Oglebay Institute Towngate Theatre Playwriting Contest (finalist). The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaterproject.com\/professional-ensemble\/\">Theatre Project production<\/a> ran September 22-October 2.<\/p>\n<p>Conner is an award-winning playwright whose plays and adaptations have been produced in theaters across the United States. Her play about Rachel Carson, <em>In the Garden of Live Flowers<\/em> (co-written with Attilio Favorini), won the 2002 Kennedy Center National Playwriting Award and an honorable mention prize in the 2002 Jane Chambers Playwriting Award contest and is published by Dramatic Publishing Company. In January 2013 Conner was awarded the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Region I award for Excellence for her original adaptation of <em>Lysistrata<\/em> at Colby College in Maine, where she was a professor and chair of the Theatre and Dance Department. <em>American Humbug<\/em> received a Creative Heights award from the Heinz Endowments in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>REVIEWS<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cA tightly observed collision between three vivid, touching and unique persons . . . a major play.\u201d Richard Sewell, founding Artistic Director, Theatre of Monmouth.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Lynne Conner\u2019s well-crafted characters and truly beautiful language rise up and compel you to become part of the story.\u201d Bess Welden, Portland Stage Company Associate Artist<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u201cA powerful reminder to me of the life-long pain so many of our nation&#8217;s citizens endure across generations to start anew in the face of such horrible loss.\u201d Lauren Sterling, Distinguished Policy Fellow, Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u201cA fascinating story well told and presented.\u201d Thomas Power, University of Southern Maine Department of Theatre<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nina, a play by Department of Theatre Chair Lynne Conner, has completed a successful run at the Theatre Project in Brunswick, Maine, opening the company\u2019s 45th anniversary season. 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