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Paul Surovell
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Username: Paulsurovell
Post Number: 538
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 5:37 am: | 
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Two One-Woman Plays
at Burgdorff Cultural Center, Maplewood NJ
Saturday February 18th 8:00 pm
(1) WARNING SIGNS: Created and performed by Maggie Surovell
Maggie Surovell, a 1998 graduate of Columbia High School, returns to Maplewood on Saturday, February 18th, to perform her one-woman play, "Warning Signs," at the Burgdorff Cultural Center on Durand Road in Maplewood. The play is being presented as part of a special event of the Underground Concert Series that will also feature a second one-woman play, "Unveiled," by Michele Cuomo. The show starts at 8:00 pm and tickets are $15.00. Tickets can be purchased online at
http://www.undergroundconcerts.com/surovell.php
or in Maplewood Center at Classic Design Framing - Robin Hutchins Gallery - Pen & Jen's and Here's To the Arts Cafe. Call Underground Concert Series at 973-762-0119 for information.
Warning Signs is a humorous, coming-of-age story about a Jewish/ Socialist/ Vegetarian/ Feminist named Maggie. Growing up in a household with a politically left father and a feminist mother wasn't always easy for Maggie, but it did help prepare her to deal with the realities of war and peace, racism, religion, vegetarian-haters, sexism, and of course, her extremely big hair. Throughout the piece, Maggie finds herself forced to choose between fitting-in with her friends or standing up for her beliefs, and she often makes surprising discoveries that will both shock and delight audiences. Warning Signs features a long cast of characters, including a guest appearance by G.W. Bush.
Maggie Surovell grew up in Maplewood, NJ and currently lives in New York City. She received her MFA in Acting from the University of Georgia last May and holds a BA in Theater from Temple University. Maggie has performed the roles of Gwendolen in The Importance of Being Ernest, Mae in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Viola in Twelfth Night, Sooze in SubUrbia and Adelaide in the 1998 Columbia High School production of Guys and Dolls. She has been performing Warning Signs in various theaters around New York City and is currently appearing as Young Morgaine in the production of Avalon at the Looking Glass Theater. She is an Assistant Fitzmaurice voice teacher and gives private voice lessons in Maplewood and New York City.
(2) UNVEILED: Written, Acted and Directed by Michelle Cuomo
The second play presented on February 18th at the Burgdorff, is "Unveiled," by Michele Cuomo, which takes us somewhere in Afghanistan where a woman uses books as bricks, since she cannot read; somewhere in N.Y. where a woman subjects herself to torturous beauty rituals because she needs to feel attractive and somewhere in Pakistan, where a merchant tries to understand the strange American woman who wants to buy a burqua.
Unveiled is a non linear, multidisciplinary and tragi-comic look at Michele's search to understand the world. It chronicles Michele's research for the play Phaedra for a production she directed, and her futile attempts to costume it the way she would have liked. She discovers that in today's world, performing Greek tragedy might not be enough to explain the human condition.
Michele Cuomo received a PSC CUNY research grant to create Unveiled as a member of the theatre faculty of the City University of New York at Queensborough. She also teaches and vocal coaches at Marymount Manhattan College. Her original performance work, which has been presented across the United States and in Europe, includes Visible Vessels, Cut Open, Nothing About Love, The Red Bitter Flood, 20 Ophelias and White Woods. She most recently performed the role of Olga in The Three Sisters at LaMama and multiple roles in The Other Wiseman for The Modern Theatre of Myth in Berlin.
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jamie
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Username: Jamie
Post Number: 433
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 11:17 am: |
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I'm very glad to be producing this show. I caught Maggie's play in December - it's great! I'm happy to bring it to her hometown.
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jasper
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Username: Jasper
Post Number: 390
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, February 18, 2006 - 11:51 pm: |
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Thanks Jamie. Maggie was fabulous and it's wonderful to bring the talent home and see it right here in our own backyard. |
doulamomma
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Username: Doulamomma
Post Number: 1068
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 12:31 am: |
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I was blown away by Maggie Surovell - I can only imagine how proud Paul & Judi are...what a great night! Great job bringing it to the series Jamie
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Joan
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Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 7021
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 8:02 am: |
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The house was absolutely packed. Jamie even had to add additional seating before the performance could begin. The word had clearly spread well in advance about how good Maggie's performance was going to be. IMHO, it easily exceeded these high expectations.
Congratulations to Maggie on a wonderful performance and on developing a script which really rang true.
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