New Threads: Spit in Your Face New Works Staged Reading

Spit in Your Face by Paul Heller & Alberto Lominitz New Threads Staged Reading New Threads Theatre Company PresentsA Staged Reading of Spit in Your Face at Barking Legs TheatreDirected by Joel Sanchez-Avantes, Spit in Your Face is a sharp and provocativecomedy developed through the New Threads Writers Group and New Works Program.The staged reading represents the next step in the play’s development toward a futurefull production.When Tom Leary, Artistic Director of the San Francisco People’s Theatre,commits to making his company more inclusive, he hires the brilliant, andcontroversial, Mexican director Fernando Calderón to devise a “groundbreaking”new production guaranteed to shake audiences out of their seats.Enter Liliana Tzintzún, a young Mexican American costume intern suddenlythrust into the role of assistant to the director and into the center of a creativeprocess brimming with ambition, ego, good intentions, and explosive questions.Witty, provocative, and unflinchingly honest, Spit in Your Face explores questionsof representation, artistic responsibility, cultural identity, and power: Who gets totell whose story and at what cost?As part of New Threads Theatre Company’s New Works Program, the staged readingwill provide an opportunity for audiences to experience the play while it is still indevelopment. A moderated audience talkback following the reading will invite attendeesto respond to the work and contribute to the ongoing development process.Spit in Your FaceA Staged Reading by Paul Heller & Alberto LomnitzDirected by Joel Sanchez-AvantesFriday, October 2, 20267:00–7:30 PM — Audience Mixer7:30–9:00 PM — Staged Reading9:00–9:30 PM — Moderated Audience TalkbackBarking Legs Theatre1307 Dodds Ave.Chattanooga, TN 37404Tickets: $12.50Tickets & Information:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2000405744431?aff=oddtdtcreator #block-yui_3_17_2_1_1789070566413_3073 { --stroke-style: none;--stroke-thickness: 2px; --tweak-text-block-stroke-color: hsla(var(--black-hsl), 1) ; } #block-yui_3_17_2_1_1789070566413_3073 .sqs-html-content { --tweak-text-block-padding: 6% 6% 6% 6%; --tweak-text-block-padding: initial; } #block-yui_3_17_2_1_1789070566413_3073 { mix-blend-mode: var(--tweak-text-block-blend ); border-radius: var(--tweak-text-block-radius); } #block-yui_3_17_2_1_1789070566413_3073 { --tweak-text-block-radius: 0px 0px 0px 0px; } #block-yui_3_17_2_1_1789070566413_3073 { --tweak-text-block-blend : normal; } #block-yui_3_17_2_1_1789070566413_3073 { --blur-value: blur(15px);} @media screen and (max-width: 767px) { #block-yui_3_17_2_1_1789070566413_3073 { } } @media screen and (max-width: 767px) { #block-yui_3_17_2_1_1789070566413_3073 .sqs-html-content { } } @media screen and (max-width: 767px) { } #block-yui_3_17_2_1_1789070566413_3073 { --opacity: 100%; --translate-x: 0px; --translate-y: 0px; --rotation: 0deg; --scale-x: 100%; --scale-y: 100%; --skew-x: 0deg; --skew-y: 0deg; --origin-x: 50%; --origin-y: 50%; --block-transform: none; opacity: var(--opacity, 1); transform: var(--block-transform); transform-origin: var(--origin-x) var(--origin-y); } Get Tickets! #block-yui_3_17_2_1_1789070566413_6750 { --sqs-block-content-flex: 0; } #block-yui_3_17_2_1_1789070566413_6750 { --opacity: 100%; --translate-x: 0px; --translate-y: 0px; --rotation: 0deg; --scale-x: 100%; --scale-y: 100%; --skew-x: 0deg; --skew-y: 0deg; --origin-x: 50%; --origin-y: 50%; --block-transform: none; opacity: var(--opacity, 1); transform: var(--block-transform); transform-origin: var(--origin-x) var(--origin-y); }