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Circle Mirror Transformation
Circle Mirror Transformation is a play by Annie Baker, centered on drama classes at a community center in Vermont. The play opened Off-Broadway in 2009 and received the Obie Award for Best New American Play.
In Shirley, Vermont, Marty, an acting teacher, holds an Adult Creative Drama class at the local community center. The people who sign up for the class are Schultz, a recently divorced carpenter; Lauren, a reserved high school junior; Theresa, a former actor; and Marty's husband James. Marty takes the students through various acting and dramatic exercises; they act like trees, beds and baseball gloves. In one exercise, they act as one another and tell their life stories. As a possible romance begins each of the group slowly reveal themselves. In a final exercise, Lauren imagines herself meeting Schultz in 10 years and they tell each other what has transpired.
Circle Mirror Transformation premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons on 13 October 2009 and closed on 31 January 2010. Directed by Sam Gold, the cast featured Reed Birney (Schultz), Tracee Chimo (Lauren), Peter Friedman (James), Deirdre O'Connell (Marty) and Heidi Schreck (Theresa).
The play received Obie Awards for Best New American Play (sharing it with Baker's The Aliens) Performance, Ensemble and Directing (Sam Gold).
The play was nominated for the Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Play and Outstanding Director of a Play, and the cast was awarded a special Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Ensemble Performances.
It received its European premiere in a Royal Court Theatre production at the Rose Lipman Building in De Beauvoir Town, London from 5 July to 3 August 2013, directed by James Macdonald and with a cast consisting of Toby Jones (Schultz), Imelda Staunton (Marty), Shannon Tarbet (Lauren), Danny Webb (James) and Fenella Woolgar (Theresa).
In October 2021, Old Hamptonians Amateur Dramatic Society presented the first amateur production in the UK.
Circle Mirror Transformation was developed at the Sundance Institute in 2008, directed by Sam Gold and the New York Theatre Workshop, with additional support from the Sundance Institute Time Warner Storytelling Fellowship.
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Circle Mirror Transformation
Circle Mirror Transformation is a play by Annie Baker, centered on drama classes at a community center in Vermont. The play opened Off-Broadway in 2009 and received the Obie Award for Best New American Play.
In Shirley, Vermont, Marty, an acting teacher, holds an Adult Creative Drama class at the local community center. The people who sign up for the class are Schultz, a recently divorced carpenter; Lauren, a reserved high school junior; Theresa, a former actor; and Marty's husband James. Marty takes the students through various acting and dramatic exercises; they act like trees, beds and baseball gloves. In one exercise, they act as one another and tell their life stories. As a possible romance begins each of the group slowly reveal themselves. In a final exercise, Lauren imagines herself meeting Schultz in 10 years and they tell each other what has transpired.
Circle Mirror Transformation premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons on 13 October 2009 and closed on 31 January 2010. Directed by Sam Gold, the cast featured Reed Birney (Schultz), Tracee Chimo (Lauren), Peter Friedman (James), Deirdre O'Connell (Marty) and Heidi Schreck (Theresa).
The play received Obie Awards for Best New American Play (sharing it with Baker's The Aliens) Performance, Ensemble and Directing (Sam Gold).
The play was nominated for the Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Play and Outstanding Director of a Play, and the cast was awarded a special Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Ensemble Performances.
It received its European premiere in a Royal Court Theatre production at the Rose Lipman Building in De Beauvoir Town, London from 5 July to 3 August 2013, directed by James Macdonald and with a cast consisting of Toby Jones (Schultz), Imelda Staunton (Marty), Shannon Tarbet (Lauren), Danny Webb (James) and Fenella Woolgar (Theresa).
In October 2021, Old Hamptonians Amateur Dramatic Society presented the first amateur production in the UK.
Circle Mirror Transformation was developed at the Sundance Institute in 2008, directed by Sam Gold and the New York Theatre Workshop, with additional support from the Sundance Institute Time Warner Storytelling Fellowship.