Celebrating the Life & Legacy of George Bartenieff

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October 1, 2022 at 3 pm
LaMama ETC, The Ellen Stewart Theater, 64 East 4th St. NYC

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George Bartenieff, as Robert, in "The Beekeeper's Daughter," written and directed by Karen Malpede, 2016, photograph by Beatriz Schiller

Link to George’s Memorial Page

The World Premiere Film of Blue Valiant

We are proud to present our first film. Originally staged at Farm Arts Collective, May 29 & 30, 2021.

"Blue Valiant" is TTC's newest, a play written by Karen Malpede especially for our colleague and collaborator, Kathleen Chalfant, and George Bartenieff. A first, private, reading on zoom of "Blue Valiant" was (I will let audience members speak): "a gorgeous treat", "absolutely brilliant," "really wonderful to hear this beautiful play come alive" "George was wonderful. Kathy as usual is a goddess", "amazing reading of your beautiful play". Releasing this play during the pandemic, on zoom, felt utterly right. Now, can we do it outside, this summer, on a horse farm, where it is set, with the full piano score, and images, of which we had just a part? There is something about this particular play, though written before, that feels as if it fits this particular unimaginable moment.

Dixon Place Presents:
Experiments and Disorders

A presentation we did for Dixon Place.
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A NEW BOOK

Plays in Time by Karen Malpede

Plays in Time has 3 "5 star" reviews on Amazon.
"As an actress, playwright, journalist, activist and award winning environmentalist I want to say that Karen Malpede's plays are works of genius, connecting us to the global nightmares of cruelty, war, greed. Through the very specific conflicts of unique, complex and vivid characters. the stories of our times, such as climate change and the aftermath of 9/11, unfold. These are not dialectics but revelations of the human condition. With influences of Greek classic drama and myth, written with Shakespearean beauty, and wonderfully imaginative stagecraft, she has created a body of work for the ages. This is not the facile, self-referential, emotionally vapid immature drama produced today (with very rare exceptions such as Lynn Nottage's Sweat, or Dominic Orlando's Danny Casolaro Died for You). This is real theater. Get this book, produce these plays laden with dream roles for actors who know their craft. Audiences will revel."--Lee Roscoe

Buy The Book

UK Book Launch
October 21, 2017 at 5:00 pm

University of Surrey, with Dr. Patrick Duggan, Alia Butt, and Karen Malpede

US Book Launch
December 11, 2017 at 6:30 pm

Segal Theater, CUNY-Graduate Center, with Marvin Carlson, Cindy Rosenthal, George Bartenieff, Kathleen Chalfant, Christen Clifford, Karen Malpede, Najla Said. Readings from the four plays and a panel discussion. Music by Arthur Rosen. FREE

MISSION STATEMENT

Theater Three Collaborative, founded in 1995, creates, develops and produces new poetic-language, character-driven plays on pressing social issues.

We surround our plays with Festivals of Conscience, talks and talk-backs by experts in the field the play addresses.

Telling the Truth One Play at a Time

Our last decade of plays remain newsworthy: Prophecy, 2006-2010 (Berlin, London, New York) about the cost of our wars to veterans and civilians; Another Life, 2011-2013 (Kosovo, Gerald W. Lynch, Irondale, Theater for the New City, NYC; London) the only American play to tell the truth about the U.S. Torture program; and Extreme Whether, 2013-onward, our family drama about Climate Change which needs to be more widely seen. We work on minuscule budgets to deliver productions of the highest quality.