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Project: Turnpike origins
17 Apr 2012 by Maureen / No Comments
“Four years ago last May, I was at an event with many good folks who are involved in ending or combatting homelessness in Connecticut. I met a person who was talking about the plight of young women brought to the USA with prospects for working to send money home, only to discover they had been sold into a sex trafficking business, which is thriving in CT.”
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HartBeat announces new play workshop
06 Apr 2012 by Maureen / No Comments
HartBeat Tackles Human Sexual Exploitation on Berlin Turnpike in Staged Reading of Project: Turnpike
HartBeat will perform a staged reading of their newest play in development, Project: Turnpike at 7:30pm on Wednesday, April 25th at Capitol Community College. Free for students, $5 for the public.
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Hartford Courant says: “The play is sharply-focused, dynamically staged and wonderfully and clearly acted.”
17 Oct 2011 by Maureen / No Comments
Read all of Frank Rizzo’s 10/15/11 Courant article, “‘Flipside’ Shows the Personal Stories of Hartford Drug Scene.
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Back by overwhelming demand: new shows of Flipside!
16 Oct 2011 by Maureen / 2 Comments
It’s the play that was called “real, relevant, raw” and had you singing “on the flipside of things” for days. If you didn’t get a ticket before it sold out, here’s your chance to get in and see it for yourself.
Back by overwhelming demand, Flipside returns with a limited run on Thursday – Saturday nights from October 13th – 29th on the ground floor of The Hollander building at 410 Asylum Street, downtown Hartford.
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See you BACK on the Flipside
07 Oct 2011 by Coffey / No Comments
This past spring, I had the rare pleasure of being invited to document the behind-the-scenes drama that went into building a main-stage play. HartBeat Ensemble extended an opportunity to me to blog the experiences of them finally bringing their play, Flipside to fruition, on a larger scale. For about 6 months, the creative undertaking allowed me to be able to tell a “day job” to kick rocks and I got to see what truly makes actors tick; Their methods, their frustrations, their elation whenever they would experience a nervous breakthrough… It was like reality television…
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