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Forum Theatre is a non-profit theatre company based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 2003, Forum produces three shows per season and is in residence at the H Street Playhouse. Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D The H Street Playhouse is a black-box theater and gallery located in the Atlas District in Northeast Washington D The company focuses on plays that feature innovative storytelling and theatricality. Forum productions also tend to deal with topics that lend themselves to discussions that the theatre hosts in the lobby, post-show. The Washington Post has hailed the company as "gutsy", "daring" and a company who produces in a "nonlinear theatrical style that is underrepresented on local stages" [1]

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History

Forum was founded in 2003 by Kelly Bartnik, Michael Dove, Paul Frydrychowski, and Mark Wright who thought that theatre could be more affecting, provocative, and relevant with a multimedia approach. The Washington Post is the largest and most circulated Newspaper in Washington D Instead of using a single performance method, Forum would explore diverse storytelling styles and artistic media to create unique performances. The roots of the company came from the founders’ combined backgrounds in film, dance/movement, music, visual art, and theatre. In that year, Forum Theatre (then known as Forum Theatre & Dance) began in Washington, D. C. , a city chosen for its emergence as a major theatre community.

From day one, Forum sought not only to create distinctive work, but also to bring new or seldom-performed plays to Washington, using the shows as a springboard for artistic expression and discussion. The company’s first productions were a collection of Samuel Beckett short plays and a movement and video piece called All Things Seen, based on Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit. Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989 was an Irish Writer, Dramatist and poet Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (21 June 1905 &ndash 15 April 1980 commonly known simply as Jean-Paul Sartre (ʒɑ̃ pol saʁtʁə was a French No Exit is a 1944 existentialist play by Jean-Paul Sartre, originally published in French as Huis Clos Audiences and critics took immediate notice: the “extreme theatricality” of the pieces caused one critic to remark that Forum was a “refreshing addition” to the DC theatre scene. [1]

In the past three years, the acclaim increased as audiences followed the company from venue to venue. Forum performed at the Arena Stage at 14th & T Streets, Warehouse Theater, Church Street Theater, The University of Maryland, The Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, and Round House Silver Spring before taking up residence at the H Street Playhouse in historic northeast DC in June 2007. The University of Maryland College Park (often referred to as The University of Maryland UMD, UMCP or simply Maryland) is a public research ----The Round House ( is the oldest building still standing in Western Australia. The H Street Playhouse is a black-box theater and gallery located in the Atlas District in Northeast Washington D Forum's varied production history includes the world premieres of Israeli playwright Ami Dayan’s UpShot and a new translation of The Gas Heart commissioned by the company, along with the DC premieres of Hamletmachine, Václav Havel's The Memorandum, Kid-Simple: A Radio Play in the Flesh, Caryl Churchill’s The Skriker, and Don DeLillo's Valparaiso. Le Cœur à gaz ( French for "The Gas Heart" or "The Gas-Operated Heart" was a 1920 French-language play by Romanian born Hamletmachine (in German, Die Hamletmaschine) is a postmodernist drama by East German playwright and theatre director Heiner Václav Havel, GCB, CC, ( (born October 5, 1936) is a Czech Playwright Writer and Politician Caryl Churchill (born 3 September 1938) is an English Dramatist known for her use of non- naturalistic techniques and Feminist The Skriker is a 1994 play by Caryl Churchill, telling the story of an ‘ancient fairy’ who leaves her underworld lair in search of human contact and greater human Don DeLillo (born November 20 1936 is an American author best known for his Novels which paint detailed portraits of American life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries Valparaiso is Don DeLillo 's second play in which a man suddenly becomes famous following a mistake in the itinerary of an ordinary business trip which takes him to

In October 2006, Forum founded and produced (with Solas Nua) the DC Samuel Beckett Centenary Festival to celebrate the writer’s work and impact on contemporary art. The festival, which took place in several DC venues, included two weeks of theatre productions, film screenings, expert panel discussions, academic symposia, book clubs, downloadable radio play podcasts, and the international touring production of Waiting for Godot by Ireland’s Gate Theatre. Waiting for Godot is a play by Samuel Beckett, in which two characters wait for someone named Godot who never arrives The Gate Theatre, in Dublin, was founded in 1928 by Hilton Edwards and Micheál MacLiammoir, initially using the Abbey Theatre 's Peacock studio The festival was sponsored by the Embassy of Ireland, The University of Maryland, and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The University of Maryland College Park (often referred to as The University of Maryland UMD, UMCP or simply Maryland) is a public research The John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (on the building itself called the John F

Today, Forum is a dedicated group of 16 performers, technicians, and theater administrators, supported by a 13-member board. For its 2007–08 season, the company will produce Jean Anouilh's Antigone, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot by Stephen Adly Guirgis, and Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss. Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh (ʒɑ̃ anwi June 23, 1910 &ndash October 3, 1987) was a French Dramatist. Jean Anouilh 's play Antigone is a Tragedy inspired by Greek mythology and the play of the same name ( Antigone, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is a 2005 play by Stephen Adly Guirgis, which imagines lawyers battling Judas ' right to go to Heaven in Purgatory Stephen Adly Guirgis is a playwright screenwriter and actor He has been a member of New York City's LAByrinth Company since 1994 The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade (Die Verfolgung und Peter Ulrich Weiss ( November 8, 1916 – May 10, 1982) was a German Writer, painter, and Artist In addition, the launch of OpenForum this fall will further expand Forum's mission to create distinctive, inclusive theatrical experiences for its audiences.

Production history

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2006-2007

2007-2008

Company members

References

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See also

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