If you're in the Albuquerque area, you might want to take advantage of Words Afire 2006, a festival of world premiere plays written by University of New Mexico students. Here's the info.:
7TH ANNUAL WORDS AFIRE at UNM HAS BECOME THE LARGEST NEW PLAY FESTIVAL IN THE SOUTHWEST
This year it's 21 plays in 21 days!
When: November 1st –21st.
Where: UNM’s Theatre X, Sol Arts (712 Central Ave. SE), VSA North Fourth Art Center (4904 4th Street NW), the National Hispanic Cultural Center (1701 4th St. NW) and The Blue Dragon Coffee House (1517 Girard Blvd NE) and the UNM Arts Garage, (1601 Central Ave. NE).
Tickets: Prices are $10 general admission for all tickets at all venues. Student tickets are $7 at all venues. All staged reading performances are free. For general information call the Words Afire hotline at: 277- 7331 or visit www.unm.edu/~theatre/td/
The Words Afire Festival features never seen before, world premiere plays including: full-length, one-act, and ten-minute plays, all written by MFA and undergraduate writers in the Robert Hartung Dramatic Writing Program at UNM. The Festival has produced 5 plays in the past five years that have won national playwriting awards from the Kennedy Center's American College Theater Festival. The mission of the Festival is to introduce and promote the voices of emerging writers to local and national theatre communities. Plays are world premiere productions written, directed, acted and designed by emerging student artists. On average more than 100 students participate in the festival each year.
For more on Words Afire, click here.
