Play about Armenian and Latin American family to be staged in NY

May 21, 2011 – 15:58 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net –

The Lark Development Center will present a limited run of Adriana
Sevahn Nichols’ Night Over Erzinga, a memory play about three
generations of an Armenian and Latin American family, which will begin
June 7.

The play is being developed as part of the Middle East America: A
National New Plays Initiative, an endeavor uniting the Lark, Golden
Thread Productions in San Francisco and Silk Road Theatre Project in
Chicago, playbill.com reported.

Daniella Topol (Monster at the Door, Pool Boy, Lascivious Something)
will direct Night Over Erzinga, which will continue through June 12 at
the Lark.

The cast will include Mari H. Bijimenian, Matt Boston, Teddy Canez,
Gerardo Rodriguez, Juliet Tanner, Alok Tewari, Ching Valdes-Aran and
Brigitte Viellieu-Davis.

According to the Lark, “Night Over Erzinga tells the story of how an
Armenian and Latin American family can reach through time, reclaim
their stories, and bring their children ‘home.’ Spanning two
continents and three generations, this memory play reunites ancestors
with the living, as they all yearn to make peace with the past.”

Nichols has toured the country with her award-winning solo play Taking
Flight, which premiered at The Kirk Douglas Theatre in 2006. Her work
has also been developed and performed at the Sundance Theater Lab,
South Coast Repertory, The Mark Taper Forum, The Goodman Theatre, LA
Theatre Works, The Fountain Theatre, INTAR, Rio Hondo College and
Dixon Place NY.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress