DRAMATIC READERS THEATER

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A compelling blend of theater, literature, and music, Gemini Ink’s Dramatic Readers Theater (DRT) productions feature professional actors interpreting literary works in a reading format, often accompanied by original music. DRT was part of the origin of Gemini Ink. Since then we have built an avid audience for the form in San Antonio, offering several performances each year in collaboration with area museums, libraries, colleges, and community organizations. All DRT performances are free and open to the public.

Recent DRT host/sponsors include San Antonio College, San Antonio Museum of Art, the University of Texas at San Antonio, and the Witte Museum. Generally, host/sponsors commission a DRT production to complement their activities, such as the upcoming fall 2009 production at the Southwest School of Art and Craft to help interpret a camera obscura exhibition by Massachusetts photographer Abelardo Morell.

Events

Gemini Ink and the San Antonio Museum of Art present Writers Respond to Art, an event which presents three San Antonio writers, Norma Cantú, Barbara Renaud Gonzalez, and Derek Delgado, in a reading of their original responses to the museum’s incredible Latin American Art collections. Come early, view the artworks, and create your own sense of the collection before hearing the writers’ unique perspective.

SAMA thanks the M.E. Hart Foundation, and Gemini Ink is grateful to the Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation for helping make this event possible.

When: Tuesday, Nov. 9, 6:30pm
Where: San Antonio Museum of Art, 200 W. Jones Ave.
Free and Open the the Public

Dramatic Readers Theater:
Entre Nosotros/Among Ourselves: South Texas and the Mexican Revolution of 1910

Rarely accessible primary and secondary sources, along with seminal texts such as San Antonio historian Anita Brenner’s The Wind That Swept Mexico, will dramatically enlarge our understanding of how we — South Texans and Mexicans engaging our porous and violent border — helped make the revolutionary history that shaped modern Mexico. Music of the period will support the actors. This production complements the Witte Museum’s exhibition: 1910: A Revolution Across Borders on view Sept. 16, 2010 – Jan. 16, 2011
When: Sunday, November 21, 4 pm
Where: Witte Museum, 3801 Broadway, San Antonio TX 78209
Free and open to the public

In Repertory:

Black & Blue: Four Hundred Years of Struggle and Transcendence

The traditional opening event for Black History Month in San Antonio, Black and Blue was written and compiled by the late San Antonio playwright, Sterling Houston. The performance pairs traditional jazz and blues with original writing and readings of historical documents from the American slavery era, including public postings offering rewards for runaway slaves, excerpts from letters and journals by both slaves and slave owners, and a San Antonio ordinance defining punishment for slaves caught out after curfew. This hour-long vision of the African-American odyssey, performed by a quartet of professional actors and jazz musicians brings history to life.

Gemini Ink’s Black and Blue: 400 Years of Struggle and Transcendence has become the traditional launch event for Black History Month in San Antonio. In 2009 the celebratory performance was held on February 2 at San Antonio College’s McAllister Auditorium. Photo by Gloria Ferniz. Copyright 2009 San Antonio Express-News.

Click here for a web-based study guide to complement Black and Blue: 400 Years of Struggle and Transcendence. (Because of the intense nature of some material, parental discretion is advised.)