Armistice Onstage
(...is healthy for children & other living things.)
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5  stage productions
directed by Randall Stuart:
Rebuking War & Proposing Peace

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​A LOVELY DAY is an adaptation (with songs) of playwright Michel de Ghelderode's classic farce Pantagleize. Expanding on the play's inherent Dadaism & commedia dell 'arte influences, this ensemble piece takes us through one terribly important day. This stylized retelling reminds us that we are very much where we were 100 years ago. Something must be done about that...so grab your vegetables.
JOHNNY JOHNSON is the extraordinary seldom-produced musical by Paul Green & Kurt Weill. As first produced by the socially-conscious Federal Theatre, and set during WWI, it marches through the minds of the peace-loving enthusiasts who are committed to singing Johnny's Song: "We know there's something still, of good beyond such ill​...kind heart and love, forgiving wrong."
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​BURY THE DEAD is Irwin Shaw's 1937 masterful allegory in which the dead take a definitive stand, and rise-up against the bloodshed. Set in "the second year of the war that is to begin tomorrow" the soldiers return home, where their families are faced with what a society must really do when useless battle looses all
​of its urgency, and destructive animus loses any of its reason.
LETTERS FROM A BIRD
is an unlikely epic based on a true story:
a campaign of hope, and a nest full of
courage. If we've ever wondered what one person with a typewriter might do to bring about Peace, this noteworthy collection
of correspondences offers a unique
​course of action.
Fellows, follow that fledgling!
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LYSISTRATA: HER THREEFOLD PLAN is an adaptation of Euripides' Greek comedy Lysistrata, commissioned in 2003 for a worldwide act of dissent by tens-of-thousands of artists on all of our planet's continents. This award-winning version entitled ​Her Threefold Plan was presented
​in Berkeley, California and featured an ensemble of 100 performers.