Ady
July 9, 2010–July 25, 2010, 7:30 PM
The Playwrights' Center
2301 East Franklin Avenue – Minneapolis
Ady
Written by Rhiana Yazzie • Directed by Hayley Finn*
Featuring Avia Bushyhead** and Leah Nelson
July 9-25 Thursdays through Sundays • 7:30 PM
$15 General Admission • $12 Students and Seniors
The Playwrights’ Center
2301 East Franklin Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55406
Purchase your tickets today!
A Lee Miller photograph of surrealist artists that includes a dancer from the West Indies naked to the waist is the jumping off place for this play. A contemporary Navajo woman relates the mostly unknown story of the surrealist muse Adrienne Fidelin, Ady. A play that reveals the woman in the photograph through the lens of race, history, and art.
Choreography by Emily Johnson
Visual Art by Carolyn Lee Anderson
Sound Design by Anton Jones
Lighting Design by Mike Wangen
Set Design by Jessie West
Media Art by Pramila Vasudevan
Ady is supported by the Playwright’s Center, KFAI, and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the America Indian Exhibition and Publications and Expressive Arts Program is made possible through a generous gift from the Ford Foundation.
*Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society
**Member of the Actors Equity Association
Check out the whole Alternate Visions Festival here!Written by Rhiana Yazzie • Directed by Hayley Finn*
Written by Rhiana Yazzie
Directed by Hayley Finn*
Featuring Avia Bushyhead** and Leah Nelson
July 9-25 • Thursdays through Sundays • 7:30 PM
Purchase your tickets today!
A Lee Miller photograph of surrealist artists that includes a dancer from the West Indies naked to the waist is the jumping off place for this play. A contemporary Navajo woman relates the mostly unknown story of the surrealist muse Adrienne Fidelin, Ady. A play that reveals the woman in the photograph through the lens of race, history, and art.
Choreography by Emily Johnson
Visual Art by Carolyn Lee Anderson
Sound Design by Anton Jones
Lighting Design by Mike Wangen
Set Design by Jessie West
Costume Design by Jeff Stolz
Media Art by Pramila Vasudevan
Click here to watch a video trailer for Ady by The Playwrights’ Center!
Ady is supported by the Playwright’s Center, KFAI, and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the America Indian Exhibition and Publications and Expressive Arts Program is made possible through a generous gift from the Ford Foundation.
*Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society
**Member of the Actors Equity Association
Check out the whole Alternate Visions Festival here!
photo by Ann Marsden
