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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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Three new “Flipside” videos
30 Sep 2011 by Maureen / No Comments
We’ve put up on our YouTube channel three new videos from the Spring performances of Flipside. Check out audience favorites like Cindy Martinez’s moving performance of the Tree of Life, Chinaza’s mind-blowing monologue on Wormholes, and Tanisha Duggan’s barn-storming “Bad Mother.”
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Flipside’s Teachable Moments…
12 May 2011 by Coffey / No Comments
… I’m simply waxing philosophic about how aware I’ve become since being commissioned to help work on relaying the behind-the-scenes action of Flipside. I came of age in the 80′s during the height of the Reagan administration’s “Just Say No” anti-drug campaign, so I’ve always had some semblance of knowledge about the War on Drugs campaign and its impact on communities however, since working with Flipside and having a glimpse into its whole process, it was never something at the forefront of my mind…
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