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World Premiere of Couples Counseling at REDCAT

June 8-10, 8:30 p.m., Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater

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Los Angeles, May 13-Couples Counseling, a new play by CalArts alumna Carey Lovelace, receives its World Premiere Tuesday through Thursday, June 8-10 at the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT) located in the new Walt Disney Concert Hall complex.

Couples Counseling, presented by CalArts School of Theatre, is the first CalArts all-alumni production at REDCAT. It launches the Institute's 35th anniversary celebration that will take place throughout 2005. Alumna Nataki Garrett (MFA '02) is directing this "formally edgy, sexy and satiric" play, that the author describes as "a love triangle between a therapist in crisis and his patients whose marriage is unraveling." Pauses, incomplete sentences, single words create a strange musical tapestry exploring love, lust and all that stands between, "as we are reminded how frequently meaning and violence take form in the silences between expression."

Starring are CalArts alumni Hugo Armstrong (BFA '98). Tony Forkush (BFA '83) and Andrea LeBlanc (MFA '01). Tickets are $20 for general admission; $10 for students, seniors, CalArts alum, faculty and staff and are available by calling the REDCAT box office at (213) 237-2800.

Lovelace (BFA '75) has an artistic background emblematic of CalArts's interdisciplinary aesthetic. As part of the CalArts revolutionary founding class of 1970, she received her BFA in Music Composition and ethnomusicology, while also taking extensive courses in the Critical Studies Department. After graduating, she moved to Paris, where she studied with such noted composers as Olivier Messaien and Iannis Xenakis. Relocating to New York, she got an MA in journalism from NYU, and fostered a career in New York as an art critic, writing for Art in America and Newsday. (She is currently co-president of the US Chapter of the International Association of Art Critics.) After receiving her MFA in playwriting from the Actor's Studio Drama School, she has written numerous short plays that have been developed and performed at such well known theater companies as the Ensemble Studio Theatre, Atlantic Theatre Company, and Circle in the Square. She currently co-hosts "The Yay/Nay Show," an arts-and-culture program on WPS1.

CalArts, the first U.S. educational institution to integrate the visual and performing arts under one roof, is recognized as the nation's leading laboratory for the arts. Housing six schools--Art, Critical Studies, Dance, Film/Video, Music and Theater--CalArts embraces creative cross-pollination among diverse art forms and traditions, and strongly encourages each artist to pursue his or her vision within a broad context of social and cultural understanding.

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