The Angels' Suicide
Saturday, August 4 at 2:00pm
The Earl Hamner Playwrights Conference
presents
The Angel’s Suicide
by
Aurora Mateos,
trans. from Spanish by Rick Hite
Directed by Boomie Pedersen
Dramaturg: Robert Graham Small
Production Stage Manager: Guinn Baker
Technical Director: J. Taylor
CAST
Guard Robert Blumenstein
Aicha Jacquie Harvey
Woman Emma Givens
Ilan Steven Williams
Aurora Mateos (Paris, France) works at the UN (Paris) as an attorney of Sea Law. Her artistic mentors include renowned dramatists Fermín Cabal, Ernesto Caballero, Ignacio del Moral and Alan Ayckbourn. She has served as Editor of two magazines (Acento Andaluz and Malagavariaciones) and Director of the literature section of the Círculo de Bellas Artes of Málaga. She received the “Martin Recuerda Award” in 2006 for the “Angel´s Suicide” and the 2006 “Teatro Exprés Award” with “Algunas notas sobre la anormalidad”. Her published work includes a book of poetry, “El perfume de Babel” (Unicaja publisher, 2002) and several plays “El amigo de medianoche” (La Avispa Publisher, 2003), and “Agua•” (La Avispa Publisher, 2003 and Universidad Autónoma de México, 2006).
The EARL HAMNER PLAYWRIGHTS CONFERENCE, now in its second year, is a three-week residential workshop for eight to ten playwrights. It is a venue for them to work on and experiment with new scripts in a company of experienced actors, directors, dramaturges & technicians, giving the playwrights time and space to work on their own visions. During the residency, the playwrights continually rewrite and experiment with their scripts. Staged Readings of each play are offered to the public on the final days of the conference; the Staged Readings are followed by a question and observation session.
The Earl Hamner Playwrights Conference is supported by the Virginia Commission for the Arts.
The Hamner Theater is a non-profit project of the Rockfish Valley Community Center.
Coming Up at the Hamner
Onstage June 25 - July 12
Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare
A Thieving Magpie Production
Thu. - Fri. at 7:30pm, Sun. at 2pm
Saturday at the Vineyard at 7pm
VPI Readings in June & July
Friday, June 5: Bill Rough will read his play Blackout
Friday, June 12: Actor read of Blackout, by Bill Rough.
Sat., June 20 at 7pm - Staged reading of Nobody's Wife, by Cindy Dlugolecki.
Sun., June 21 at 1pm - Staged reading of The Grove at Illium, by Jane Ann Crum.
Sat., July 25 at 7pm - Staged reading of Slow Instructions, by Roy Robbins.
Sun., July 26 at 1pm - Staged reading of All is Always Now, by Robert Wray.
Unless otherwise noted, we will gather for a snack and a chat at 6:30 and start the reading at 7pm. Please come listen to the play and be part of the coversation afterwards.
All Readings are Free!
Classes
- IMPROV with Hamner Improv Troupe
Mondays at 7:00pm (hit, for over-8s) & 8:00pm (HIT, adults), Free





