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Test your knowledge of these plays from Signature’s past!
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1. Actor Deidre O’Connell was featured in this
María Irene Fornés play, which was presented
in 1999 alongside Fornés’ Drowning.
2. In 1997, Ethan Hawke was the final
actor to perform in this Sam Shepard
play at Signature, which consisted of a
single twenty-minute monologue.
3. Future Residency Five playwright Regina
Taylor curated and performed in this evening
of one-act plays, a tribute to Adrienne
Kennedy, during the 2000-01 Season.
4. This Charles Mee play was a colorful ode
to one of New York’s boroughs during the
2007-08 Season.
5. Adapted from Pierre Corneille’s play of a
similar title, this Tony Kushner play featured
Lois Smith in a mystical role.
6. Bruce Norris appeared in Signature’s
1998 production of this John Guare play
with a rhyming title.
7. Playwright Horton Foote famously went
on stage at the last minute to cover a small
role in this play during Signature’s All Premiere
Season in 2000.
8. During the 2006-07 Season celebrating
August Wilson, Ruben Santiago-Hudson
made his Signature directorial debut with
this play set in the 1940s.
9. During Signature’s third season,
Founding Artistic Director James
Houghton and playwright Edward Albee
cast a young Edward Norton in this play.
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Artwork by Constanza
Romero for August
Wilson’s Seven Guitars,
Two Trains Running
and King Hedley II.
With 2016 already at full speed, it is hard for me to believe that the
August Wilson season at Signature Theatre happened ten years
ago! I had lost August the year before – liver cancer took him in
the course of four months – and suddenly I became the executor
of this most important estate. Jim Houghton and I decided we
would go ahead and complete the vision he and August had for
his plays to be presented at Signature. So we launched the historic
three productions that I revisit in my mind often and fondly.
Knowing that I had done the artwork for Broadway’s Two Trains
Running and Seven Guitars, Jim asked me to take some of the other
ideas I had tucked away and execute the artwork for Signature’s
productions. For Seven Guitars, I used an image that has always
haunted me in the play: Vera seeing Floyd being taken up to the
sky by men in suits, who she and Canewell consider to be angels.
That image goes to the core of many of August’s plays. He often
asks us to judge the actions of his characters – their struggle to
fulfill their dreams, to do the best they can for the people they
love – by the context of their time and place. The artwork for
Two Trains Running is also an image of finality: Hambone stands
in glory, larger than life, finally clutching the ham, the fair
payment for his hard work that has eluded him all throughout his
life. For King Hedley II, I continued with the same theme of creating
an image directly after the final word of the play has been spoken.
I illustrated the resurrection of Aunt Ester in the form of a cat.
She embodies the history of the African presence in America,
which then could return to illuminate the way to a brand new
generation in the 21st century, the topic of Radio Golf, August’s
final play in the American Century Cycle. – CONSTANZA ROMERO