{"id":17244,"date":"2021-07-19T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/?p=17244"},"modified":"2021-07-16T10:16:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T14:16:23","slug":"pure-theatre-returning-to-live-performances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/pure-theatre-returning-to-live-performances\/","title":{"rendered":"PURE Theatre Returning to Live Performances"},"content":{"rendered":"

From our friends at PURE Theatre…<\/em><\/p>\n

After more than a year of producing theatre virtually, PURE Theatre will return to live performances for the company\u2019s 19th season.<\/p>\n

Performances in the 2021-2022 season will take place at multiple locations throughout Charleston, including the Dock Street Theatre, Battery Gadsden Cultural Center on Sullivan\u2019s Island, and the company\u2019s home venue, the new Cannon Street Arts Center.<\/p>\n

PURE\u2019s 19th season bears the tagline \u201cEmergence\u201d and celebrates stories of coming into view. \u201cWhen I think of what it means to emerge,\u201d says Sharon Graci, PURE Theatre\u2019s co-founding Artistic Director, \u201cI see images of something or someone, coming out of the darkness into the light. I see rubble and debris being muscled away so that the process of becoming can flourish. To emerge means to rise up, to come forth, to be more of what you are meant to be. It\u2019s inspiration and aspiration, it\u2019s hope and promise, and it\u2019s commitment and bravery all rolled into one simple verb.\u201d<\/p>\n

Season 19: Emergence shines a light on five diverse stories that explore the process of becoming. From a small town on the New Jersey shore confronting difference and hate, to a global exploration of the illegal ivory trade, from a Union fort during the Civil War, to a parlor in Ireland, to a valuable piece of real estate with dirty origins in a small Southern city, each of the plays in Season 19 feature stories of our struggles against the darkness so that we might emerge into the light.<\/p>\n

PURE\u2019s Season 19: Emergence kicks off in September\/October 2021 with The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey<\/b><\/i> by James Lecesne (cofounder of The Trevor Project). Featuring PURE Core Ensemble member David Mandel, The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey <\/b><\/i>is an uplifting story of all the tiny ways that one human being inspires an entire community to seek their highest selves. \u201cA superlative solo show,\u201d PURE\u2019s production will be the South Carolina Premiere and will \u201cleave you beaming with joy\u201d (New York Times<\/i>).<\/p>\n

November\/December brings another Southeast Regional Premiere, the play Little Gem <\/b><\/i>by Elaine Murphy. Amber, Lorraine, and Kay, three generations of North Dublin women, find themselves suddenly facing the unexpected. The play moves through a year in their life to discover the beauty, complexity, and necessity of family. Winner of the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Little Gem<\/b><\/i> tells \u201ca slice-of-life story through interwoven, interlocking monologues\u201d (New York Times<\/i>).<\/p>\n

The second half of PURE Theatre\u2019s 19th season will feature two additional Regional Premiere productions and one World Premiere. Ben Butler<\/b><\/i> <\/b>by Richard Strand opens 2022 with the brilliantly comic story of what ensues when a runaway slave demands sanctuary at a Union Army garrison and the General in charge is faced with a moral quandary: follow the letter of the law, or make a game-changing move that could alter the course of American history? \u201cPart comedy, part historical drama and part biography, often all at once\u2026 Just call it splendid\u2026\u201d (New York Times<\/i>).<\/p>\n

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage\u2019s Mlima\u2019s Tale <\/b><\/i>will run in March 2022. The play follows the story of a magnificent elephant trapped by the underground international ivory market. As he follows a trail littered by a history of greed, Mlima takes us on a journey through memory, fear, tradition, and the penumbra between want and need. Mlima\u2019s Tale<\/b><\/i> \u201cis yet another towering American drama.\u201d (NY Stage Review). \u201cEighty straight minutes of searing brilliance…makes a strong argument for plausible deniability as a luxury far greater than ivory, afforded to only the most privileged\u201d (TheaterMania.com<\/i>).<\/p>\n

Rounding out the season in April\/May 2022 is the World Premiere of Honoria Quietly Drawing Strength from Her Truth<\/b><\/i>, by playwright and screenwriter Clifton Campbell. A social activist, a Vietnam vet, and a progressive theatre artist are each eager to tell their stories to the world. Who among them will be deemed worthy of a valuable piece of property donated by an affluent Southern family with its own complicated past? Honoria Quietly Drawing Strength from Her Truth<\/b><\/i> is a lurching, lyrical exploration of our failures to connect, a culture of disparate voices fighting to be heard, and the spaces we create to tell our stories.<\/p>\n

Patrons and ticket buyers should visit PURE Theatre\u2019s website at www.puretheatre.org<\/u><\/a> for additional information on Season 19: Emergence<\/b>. Information on purchasing season passes as well as individual tickets is also available on PURE\u2019s website, social media platforms, and via PURE Theatre\u2019s box office at 843-723-4444, Monday-Friday from 10 am to 6 pm.<\/p>\n

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From our friends at PURE Theatre… After more than a year of producing theatre virtually, PURE Theatre will return to live performances<\/p>\n

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