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Press Release
For Immediate Release
February 28, 2011
Dr. Geith to speak on Gulag Survivors
in conjunction with Burning Coal Theatre Company’s
'THE SHAPE OF THE TABLE’
Burning Coal Theatre Company of Raleigh, NC will continue its 2010/2011 “Lobby Lectures” season with Dr. Jehanne M. Gheith speaking about her interviews with Gulag survivors. The event will take place at 6:00 pm on Saturday, April 16, 2011. at Burning Coal Theatre at the Murphey School (NOTE VENUE NAME CHANGE), 224 Polk Street, Raleigh, NC. All tickets are available at the door and are $5, or free for anyone holding a ticket for any performance of Burning Coal Theatre Company’s production of The Shape of the Table. Further details can be obtained by calling 919-834-4001 or visiting our website at www.burningcoal.org.
ABOUT DR. JEHANNE M. GHEITH. Jehanne M. Gheith is Associate Professor in the Slavic and Eurasian Studies Department at Duke University, where she is the director of International Comparative Studies. Her current book-length project, “A Dog Named Stalin: Memory, Trauma, and the Gulag,” is based on her interviews with Gulag survivors. She has published an article on this research in Mortality and has related articles forthcoming in Gulag Studies and Slavic Review. Gulag Voices: Oral Histories of Soviet Incarceration and Detention, which Gheith edited with Katherine Jolluck was published in January 2011. It is the first collection of oral histories of Gulag survivors to appear in English.
Gheith explores the connections between bereavement and narration in multiple ways. She has a Masters of Social Work and is working towards her license in Social Work at the Unicorn Bereavement Center (Duke Hospice Bereavement Services). She lives in Durham with poet-professor husband David Need, prose-writer, teacher stepson Sam (when he’s in Durham), and four cats—who are both poetry and prose.
For further information, please contact Burning Coal’s managing director, Simmie Kastner, at 919.834.4001 or visit our website at www.burningcoal.org.
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Burning Coal Theatre Company is Raleigh's small, professional theatre. Burning Coal is an incorporated, non-profit [501 (c) (3)] organization. Burning Coal's mission is to produce literate, visceral, affecting theatre that is experienced, not simply seen. Burning Coal produces explosive reexaminations of overlooked classic and modern plays, as well as new plays, whose themes and issues are of immediate concern to our audience, using the best local, national and international artists available. We work toward a theatre of high-energy performances and minimalist production values. The emphasis is on literate works that are felt and experienced viscerally, unlike more traditional linear plays, at which audiences are most often asked to observe without participating. Race and gender non-specific casting is an integral component of our perspective, as well as an international viewpoint.
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DR. GHEITH to speak on Gulag Survivors. Burning Coal Theatre Company presents the Dr. Jehanne M. Gheith on Saturday, April 16, 2011 at 6:00 pm. Tickets $5 or free when holding a ticket for Burning Coal’s production of The Shape of the Table. Burning Coal Theatre at the Murphey School, 224 Polk Street, Raleigh, NC. Tickets and information: 919.834.4001 or www.burningcoal.org.
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