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Curio T eatre continues 10th Anniversary Season with William Shakespeare’s Othello February 12-March 14


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urio Theatre Company kicks off 2015 with an intimate and in-


your-face version of William Shakespeare’s Othello.


Directed by Dan Hodge (co-founding artistic director of The Philadelphia Artists’ Collective), this version of Othello will be raw. Hodge’s


vision for the show will be intimate and without spec- tacle. He is letting the actors and Shakespeare’s words showcase this epic classic of jealousy, passion, ambition, and betrayal. This astonish- ing epic of sweeping pas- sions and murderous ambi- tion is a thrilling meditation on the power of love and the destructiveness of suspicion, all triggered by one of litera- ture’s most seductively ma- nipulative villains: Iago. “Doing Othello in a small- er space is a gift, because it allows us to strip away the sense of grandeur that can distance us from the play and we can engage with the characters as people. This is Shakespeare’s most do- mestic tragedy, and it is a true pleasure to invest in the subtle human elements that make it resonate with us to- day,” said Hodge about his ideas for this production. Brian McCann is cast as Iago with Steven Wright playing Othello. Isa St. Clair is cast as Desdemona. Paul Kuhn is playing Roderigo, Eric Scotolati is playing Cassio, Steve Carpenter is


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Culture and Community at 4740 Baltimore Avenue, Philadelphia. This partner- ship provides Curio with a performance venue and classrooms within the Cal- vary Center as well as offi ce


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Controversy over remains of Native American athlete Jim T orpe subject of play reading, panel discussion February 12


Featuring from left to right Steve Wright as Othello and Brian McCann as Iago. Photo by Kyle Cassidy


playing Duke/Montano, and Bob Weick is playing Srabantio. Rachel Gluck is cast as Emilia and Colleen Hughes is Bianca. The set is designed by Curio Theatre Company Artistic Director Paul Kuhn. Tim Martin is designing the lights. Dan Ison is the Sound Designer. Aetna Gal- lagher is Costume Designer. Kathleen Soltan is the Stage Manager.


The show runs February


12-March 14 at Curio’s Cor- ner Stage. Performances are Thursdays, Fridays, and Sat- urdays, at 8 p.m. Opening Night is Friday, February 20 at 8 p.m. The show will be performed at Curio’s home space at the Calvary Center for Culture and Community, 4740 Baltimore Avenue. Tickets cost $15-$25 and


are available online at www. curiotheatrecompany.org or by phone at 215-525-1350. About Curio Theatre Company We are currently ap-


proaching our 10th season of plays, and 10th year of the- atre school operation. The Company was founded by professional artists and ad- ministrators who met at the Hedgerow Theatre in Rose Valley, PA, over the past 15 years and incorporated as a non-profi t organization in October 2004. After touring locally and internationally for several years, the Com- pany began a search for a permanent home. In January 2005, Curio Theatre Com- pany joined in partnership with the Calvary Center for


Renowned Native American writ- ers and activists Suzan Harjo, Mary Kathryn Nagle join with theater director Matt Pfeiff er to present “My Father’s Bones” at the Penn Museum


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he Penn Museum will host a staged read- ing of “My Father’s Bones”, a short play by Na- tive American writers and activists Suzan Shown Harjo and Mary Kathryn Nagle, on Thursday, February 12, 5:30 pm. The play recounts the ongoing struggle of three sons to recover the remains of their father—the unequaled Olympian Jim Thorpe—from the Borough of Jim Thorpe, Pennsylva- nia, for reburial with his relatives on Sac and Fox Na- tion land in Oklahoma. The free program, sponsored by the Penn Cultural Heri- tage Center of the Penn Museum and presented in conjunction with the Mu- seum’s Native American Voices exhibition, will con- clude with a panel discus- sion and reception. The fi rst version of the play was selected as a fi nalist for the 2013 Von Marie Atchley Excellence in Playwriting Award and per- formed in Los Angeles. This revision is staged by Phila- delphia-based director Matt Pfeiff er, recently nominated for the 2014 Barrymore Award for Outstanding Di- rection of Play, for “Down Past Passyunk” at InterAct Theater Company in Phila- delphia.


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Following the play there will be a panel discussion about repatriation and the use of the Native American Graves Protection and Re- patriation Act (NAGPRA) as the legal basis to return Thorpe’s remains to his ancestral home. Represen- tatives of the Borough of Jim Thorpe and of the Sac and Fox Nation have been invited. Panelists include tribal representatives of the Sac and Fox Nation, At- torney John Echohawk, and Suzan Shown Harjo. Penn


Jim Thorpe at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden. Public domain image.


Cultural Heritage Center Director Richard Leventhal will moderate.


The play will be viewable online via HowlRound’s livestream at http:// howlround.com/tv. To participate in the talkback after the performance, use Twitter hashtag #newplay, #MyFathersBones and/or #JimThorpe and direct your questions @HowlRound.


Background


On October 23, 2014, the U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia determined that NAGPRA does not apply to the requested re- patriation. The Sac and Fox Nation, Thorpe’s sons Bill and Richard, the National Congress of American In- dians (NCAI), and Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell have all petitioned the Court, requesting that the Third Circuit reconsider the case en banc. Their petitions remain pending.


Jim Thorpe was an en-


rolled citizen of the Sac and Fox Nation and winner of several Olympic gold medals. He passed away in 1953, and the Sac and Fox Nation honored him with a traditional burial in accor- dance with his last wishes. Ordinarily these ceremonies last four days, but on the fourth day his third wife,


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