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Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity

World Premiere Feb 26 - Apr 7, 2019

Three women—an art restorer, her nurse and their military captor—are trapped in a ravaged museum during a catastrophic hundred years war. Tasked with restoring a damaged Rembrandt painting, the women find common shreds of humanity as they try to save a small symbol of beauty in their broken world.

Holly Twyford (A Little Night Music, Sex with Strangers) and Felicia Curry (The Scottsboro Boys) star in this season’s Heidi Thomas Writers’ Initiative work, a brutal and elegant exploration of the unifying virtue of art and what things are most worth saving when the world is collapsing.

 

Written by Heather McDonald
Directed by Nadia Tass
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Performance Information

  • Run Time

    Run time approximately 95 minutes with no intermission.

  • Content Warnings

    This production contains theatrical haze, flashing lights, strong language and depictions of graphic violence and blood.

Specialty Nights

Discussion Nights

March 19 & 27, 2019

Pride Night

March 22, 2019

Open Captioning

March 24, 2019 at 2PM

Cast Members

Felicia Curry

Felicia Curry

Mitra

SIGNATURE: Masterpieces...., The Scottsboro Boys, Motown: Hitsville U.S.A, Les Misérables, Broadway Duets. BROADWAY: Into the Woods. OFF-BROADWAY: Fabulation, Queens Girl in the World; We Three Liza’s; DMLRR: The Brontes, Petite Rouge. NATIONAL TOURS: Into the Woods; Kennedy Center: Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka; Mattel/Live Nation: Barbie Live!; Capitol Steps. REGIONAL: Arena Stage, Ford's Theatre (Artistic Associate), Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Everyman Theatre (Resident Company Member), Factory 449 (Company Member), Kennedy Center, Round House Theatre, Rep Stage, MetroStage, Olney Theatre Center, Studio Theatre, Gulfshore Playhouse, VA Repertory Theatre. TheaterWorks Hartford. CONCERTS: NSO: Young People’s Concert, BSO: Holiday Spectacular, Marvin Hamlisch: One Singular Sensation. AWARDS: Emmy Award nomination, Audelco Award nomination, Helen Hayes Best Actress Award, Anderson Hopkins Award, Berkshire Theatre Critics Best Actress Award, RTCC Best Actress Award. EDUCATION: UMCP. 

Yesenia Iglesias

Yesenia Iglesias

Nadia

she/her/ella SIGNATURE: Daphne’s Dive, Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. DC AREA: Folger Shakespeare: Metamorphoses; Love’s Labor’s Lost; Studio: At the Wedding; Arena: POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive; Olney Theatre: Dance Nation; Kennedy Center: Kid Prince and Pablo; Shakespeare Theatre: Hamlet, King Charles III; Ford’s: A Christmas Carol; Round House: The Legend of Georgia McBride; Constellation: The Caucasian Chalk Circle; The Arabian Nights. Adirondack Theatre: Dial 'M' for Murder; ACT/SideCountry Theatre: Passing Strange; Seattle Children’s: Mwindo. EDUCATION: University of Washington.

Holly Twyford

Holly Twyford

Layla

SIGNATURE: Sex with Strangers, A Fox on the FairwayThe Little Dog Laughed (Helen Hayes Award), Twentieth Century, A Little Night Music. DC AREA: Ford’s Theatre: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Arena Stage: Long Day’s Journey into Night, The Matchmaker, and others; Folger Theatre: King John, Midsummer Night's Dream, and others; Round House Theatre: Or, and others.; Studio Theatre: The Steward of Christendom, and others; Theatre J: Lost in Yonkers, and others; Woolly Mammoth Theatre: Recent Tragic Events, and others.

Creative Team

Dani Stoller

Dani Stoller

Assistant to the Director

SIGNATURE: Ragtime (Helen Hayes nomination Best Supporting Performer), Which Way to the Stage, Easy Women Smoking Loose Cigarettes (playwright) SIS playwright. DC AREA: Theater J: This Much I Know, Hester Street Arena Stage: My Body, No Choice (Helen Hayes Nomination best-supporting performer); Olney Theatre Center: The Joy That Carries You (Charles MacArthur Award best new play) The Humans, Thanksgiving Play, The Crucible, The Diary of Anne Frank, Annie; Folger Theatre: Midsummer, District Merchants, As You Like It; Keegan Theatre: Airness, Hair, Dogfight; 1st Stage: Bat Boy (Helen Hayes Nomination), Blithe Spirit, The Good Counselor, The Italian – American Reconciliation; Round House Theatre: Girlhood (Playwright). EDUCATION: BFA Ithaca College MFA Romeo School at CUA. Upcoming: Prayer for the French Republic at Theater J.

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See a real art conservator work in Signature's lobby

See a real art conservator work in Signature’s lobby before the show! Join paintings conservator Nancy Pollak to learn about the real-life professionals who take care of masterpieces on Tuesday, March 19 at 6:30PM and Saturday, March 30 at 7PM. She will discuss conservation practices, tools of the trade, and how to become a conservator. You will also have the opportunity to ask questions about conservation and discuss her work, which includes treatment of both painted textiles, including Thangkas, flags and banners, and traditional paintings on panel and canvas.

Blog Post: Unsung Masters of the Masterpieces

In the new play Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity, an art conservator is held prisoner in a crumbling museum and tasked with restoring a priceless Rembrandt painting in dangerous, violent circumstances. Read more about how real art conservators preserve our masterpieces for future generations, from two experts in the field.

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