Previously on 'Final Battle'… Claire has a significant relationship with her TV: she talks and it answers her. Diagnosed with terminal cancer, she auditions to participate in a reality TV show so she can fight her Final Battle in front of millions of viewers. A satire about life, love, and death on TV.
Featuring: Jeffrey Detwiler, Chris Burner, Katja Hill, Frank Lentricchia, Nicole Quenelle
Videographer: Shambhavi Kaul
Stage Manager: Laine Hindley

Presented as part of Manbites Dog's Other Voices Series
and Duke Theater Studies' New Works Festival

Saturday March 20, 2010, 8:15 p.m.
FREE ADMISSION
No advance reservations required

LOCATION: Manbites Dog Theater, 703 Foster Street in Durham.
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ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT:
Neal Bell is a faculty member of the Duke University Department of Theater Studies. His plays include Two Small Bodies, On The Bum, Spatter Pattern, Somewhere in the Pacific, and Shadow of Himself. His work has been produced in such venues as Playwrights Horizons in New York, the Mark Taper Forum, Denver Center Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and Berkeley Rep. He was awarded an Obie Award in 1992 for sustained achievement in playwriting, and has been recognized with fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation.

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
Jody McAuliffe has developed and directed new plays nationally and regionally: including Marlane Meyer’s The Mystery of Attraction, Pacific Playwrights Festival, South Coast Repertory; Neal Bell's Shadow of Himself, New Play Summit, Denver Center Theater; The Special Prosecutor, her translation/adaptation of Gogol's Inspector General; Gulag Follies, adapted from Shalamov’s Kolyma Tales; and her adaptation of Don DeLillo's Mao II. Her publications include My Lovely Suicides; Crimes of Art and Terror (with Frank Lentricchia); Mysterious Actions: New American Drama; Plays, Movies, and Critics. Her adaptation of My Lovely Suicides (Semi-Finalist, Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Center National Playwrights Conference), was produced by Little Green Pig (she’s a member) at Manbites Dog Theater Other Voices Series (2007). Former National Endowment for the Arts Directing Fellow at the Mark Taper Forum and member of the Directing Workshop for Women at American Film Institute, she is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama. She teaches at Duke University.

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Manbites Dog Theater’s 2009-2010 season is made possible in part through gifts to the Durham Arts Council United Arts Fund, and by grants from the NC Arts Council, an agency supported by the state of North Carolina and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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