Polk Street

Co-Production between Mask and Bauble Dramatic Society and Nomadic Theatre

Based on Polk Street Stories by Joey Plaster
Adapted & Directed by T. Chase Meacham (COL ’14)
Produced by Arianne Price (COL ’15)
Advised by Prof. Susan Lynskey

Polk Street: an end-of-the-line stop for people who are running from pieces of the past. It is a cradle of rebirth, for some, and a gutter for most. It is a place of sex and drugs — of love, and things that feel like it. It is a nest for runaways, lost children, drag queens, ministers, strippers, hustlers, druggies, artists, queers, and Others who dream of freedom and dancing, of new lives with new pasts. But for all its inhabitants, for better or worse — Polk Street is home.

Performed on
Wednesday-Friday, March 13-15, 2013 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, March 16, 2013 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.

Walsh Black Box Theatre, Walsh Building

Polk Street was also performed at the Kennedy Center as the GU Theater & Performance Studies Program’s Page-to-Stage Festival offering as part of the 2013-14 TPST season:

Saturday, August 31, 2013 at 2 p.m.
Page-to-Stage Festival at the Kennedy Center
A staged reading
Polk Street
Based on Polk Street Stories by Joey Plaster
Written by T. Chase Meacham (COL ’14)
Directed by Joseph Megel
Polk Street: an end-of-the-line stop for people who are running from pieces of the past. It is a cradle of rebirth, for some, and a gutter for most. It is a place of sex and drugs — of love, and things that feel like it. It is a nest for runaways, lost children, drag queens, ministers, strippers, hustlers, druggies, artists, queers, and Others who dream of freedom and dancing, of new lives with new pasts. But for all its inhabitants, for better or worse — Polk Street is home. After the hugely successful premiere co-produced by Nomadic Theatre and Mask and Bauble Dramatic Society in March 2013, Theater and Performance Studies major T. Chase Meacham continued his development of Polk Street as his senior thesis project, in collaboration with students, faculty, and professional artists, with several public events to be held over the course of the school year.
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Terrace Theater
FREE

Photos by Hansky Santos