{"id":6263,"date":"2017-05-24T13:06:11","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T20:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/?p=6263"},"modified":"2017-12-28T12:19:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T20:19:32","slug":"year-of-the-rooster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/archives\/year-of-the-rooster\/","title":{"rendered":"Year of the Rooster"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h3 class=\"null\" dir=\"ltr\">October 27 \u2013 November 18, 2017<\/h3>\n<p class=\"null\" dir=\"ltr\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Year-of-the-Rooster-Ticket-Web-e1501532005623.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6396 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Year-of-the-Rooster-Ticket-Web-253x300.jpg\" width=\"253\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>CoHo Productions and Rolland Walsh present\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"null\"><strong>Year of the Rooster<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"null\">by Olivia Dufault<br \/>\nDirected by Alexandra Kuechler-Caffall<br \/>\nFeaturing Sam Dinkowitz, Ahna Dunn-Wilder, Paige Johnson Jones, Michael O\u2019Connell and Rolland Walsh<\/p>\n<p><!-- START OF VENDINI TAG Copyright (C) 2017 Vendini, Inc. 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He still lives with his mama, with no friends or future plans, just the 19-year old manager at McDonald\u2019s who bullies his broken spirit while dreaming of Disney World and world domination. Gil\u2019s chance at winning the American Dream is a nightmare until he gets a prize-fighting rooster named Odysseus Rex. Cockfighting was invented by the ancient Greeks (just like Democracy); now illegal in all 50 states. The stakes are life and death, the rooster is on stage \u2013 what are you willing to bet he wins?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>REVIEWS<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\u201c\u2026astonishingly entertaining\u2026The stakes are high; under the humor,<br \/>\nDufault has laid a foundation of pathos.\u201d \u2013<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/12\/theater\/reviews\/year-of-the-rooster-a-play-about-cockfighting.html?smid=pl-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/12\/theater\/reviews\/year-of-the-rooster-a-play-about-cockfighting.html?smid=pl-share\">New York Times<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u201c\u2026the play deals with hardscrabble folks in an unspecified Southern state. But it doesn\u2019t indulge in cheap humor at their expense. And without ever being preachy, Dufault has a lot of sharp things to say about what we do to each other \u2013 and to animals \u2013 and about bullying.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2014\/01\/13\/a-foul-mouthed-fowl-the-unlikely-hero-of-year-of-the-rooster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2014\/01\/13\/a-foul-mouthed-fowl-the-unlikely-hero-of-year-of-the-rooster\/\">New York Post<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026it\u2019s about the consuming drive to be a winner, especially when that drive becomes absurd or impossible and instead leads to mindless rage\u2026we sense the real vulnerability that lies at the heart of these characters as the powerful are revealed to be pathetic, and vice versa.\u201d \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/arts.blog.austin360.com\/2015\/08\/25\/theater-review-capital-t-theatres-year-of-the-rooster-something-to-crow-about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/arts.blog.austin360.com\/2015\/08\/25\/theater-review-capital-t-theatres-year-of-the-rooster-something-to-crow-about\/\">Austin 360<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Olivia Dufault\u2019s plays include\u00a0<em>Year of the Rooster<\/em>\u00a0(New York Times Critics\u2019 Pick),\u00a0<em>The Tomb of King Tot<\/em>\u00a0(New York Times Critics\u2019 Pick),\u00a0<em>The Messenger<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>For Want of a Horse<\/em>.\u00a0Her plays have been performed at the Ensemble Studio Theatre\/Youngblood, Clubbed Thumb, the Flea Theatre, and the Marin Theatre, amongst others.<\/p>\n<p>She is the 2015-16 Rita Goldberg Playwrights\u2019 Workshop Fellow and 2013=14 PoNY Fellow, as well as\u00a0the recipient of the 2015 Playwrights of New York Fellowship, the 2013 David Colicchio Emerging Playwright Award, the 2010 Lipkin Playwriting Award, and the 2008, 2009, and 2010 Harle Adair Damann Playwriting Award. 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