{"id":7388,"date":"2018-09-09T13:41:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T20:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/?p=7388"},"modified":"2018-09-14T12:51:58","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T19:51:58","slug":"coho-lab-ugly-baby-stupid-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/blog\/coho-lab-ugly-baby-stupid-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"CoHo Lab: UGLY BABY, STUPID BABY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7400 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Ugly-Baby-Stupid-Baby-img1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Ugly-Baby-Stupid-Baby-img1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Ugly-Baby-Stupid-Baby-img1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Ugly-Baby-Stupid-Baby-img1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Ugly-Baby-Stupid-Baby-img1-580x580.jpg 580w, https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Ugly-Baby-Stupid-Baby-img1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>UGLY BABY, STUPID BABY<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>by Tamar Shai Bolkvadze<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Featuring\u00a0Brad Bolchunos, David Shai Bolkvadze, David J. Loftus, Robert Nove, and Jeremy Southard<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday September 16 and Sunday September 23, 7:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Admission is free, but we will happily accept donations to support the development of CoHo&#8217;s New Work Pipeline. Reserve your seat and\/or make a donation now!<\/p>\n<p><!-- START OF VENDINI TAG Copyright (C) 2018 Vendini, Inc. All Rights Reserved. TROUBLESHOOTING: The HTML code below is one continuous line. 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However, when CoHo&#8217;s time, space and financial resources do allow, we jump at the chance to support artists in the development of new work through CoHo Lab. We are pleased to welcome playwright <strong>Tamar Shai Bolkvadze<\/strong> to CoHo, where she will have the opportunity to workshop her play,\u00a0<em><strong>Ugly Baby, Stupid Baby<\/strong><\/em>, in a pared-down Lab process with 2 public staged reading performances.\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem;\">A facilitated feedback session will follow each of the public readings. The playwright plans to incorporate relevant feedback and make changes to the script between the first reading on September 16 and the second on September 23.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0ABOUT THE PLAY &amp; THE COHO LAB PROCESS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first draft of <strong><em>Ugly Baby, Stupid Baby<\/em><\/strong> was written in January of 2016. The play takes place in the Israeli controlled sector of Hebron on the West Bank, and is a &#8220;real time&#8221; piece that involves a Palestinian caf\u00e9 owner and an Israeli settler who become trapped together during a violent protest. It is essentially a story\u00a0about two middle-aged men who struggle with their feelings of powerlessness.<\/p>\n<p>The playwright&#8217;s goal is to write plays that challenge assumptions and ask questions about things we think we fully understand.\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem;\">Playwright <a href=\"http:\/\/ma-yitheatre.org\/labbies\/lloyd-suh\/\">Lloyd Suh<\/a> once wrote,<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem;\">\u201c\u2026when you\u2019re dealing with populations that have been<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem;\">underrepresented or misrepresented, every representation takes on an incredible<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem;\">burden of responsibility.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem;\">With that in mind, <strong><em>Ugly Baby, Stupid Baby\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>playwright Tamar Shai Bolkvadze has made her intentions for the workshop and public readings clear, saying, &#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem;\">Because one of the characters, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem;\">Ibrahim, is of an ethnicity and religion different than my own, I would be most <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem;\">interested in inviting members of Portland\u2019s Palestinian community to offer <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem;\">feedback&#8221; about the portrayal of Ibrahim to ensure that she is handling his story responsibly. She also hopes to clarify each character&#8217;s intentions while ensuring that they are complex and empathetic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tamar Shai Bolkvadze<\/strong> has completed six feature-length screenplays, two pilots, six plays, and a novel, <em><strong>Fireweed<\/strong><\/em>, for which she was a finalist for Hidden River Publishing\u2019s Eludia Award. Tamar is fortunate to be the 2017 <a href=\"https:\/\/literary-arts.org\/2017\/02\/oregon-literary-fellowship-recipient-tamar-shai-bolkvadze\/\">Oregon Literary Arts Women Writers Fellowship<\/a> in drama recipient, and she was recently named a finalist in the Marin Theatre Company\u2019s David Callichio Emerging American Playwright Prize for her play <em><strong>Ugly Baby, Stupid Baby<\/strong><\/em>. She directed a staged reading of her latest work, <strong><em>The Insurance Play<\/em><\/strong>, at the Valdez Last Frontier Theatre Conference in summer 2018.\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem;\">Before she began writing for the stage, Tamar spent years as an actor.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem;\">She earned a Bachelor of Science in Drama from Syracuse University, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem;\">during which time she had the opportunity to study acting in Moscow and London. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem;\">Tamar just <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem;\">completed a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Fiction from the University of Alaska <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem;\">Anchorage. 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