Dramatists Play Service presents
DPS On Air: Ken Urban's THE AWAKE
On Monday, May 11, MTA's Senior Lecturer and Playwright Ken Urban's play THE AWAKE will be featured by publisher Dramatists Play Service on their DPS on Air series. The performance of monologues from the original actors from the play will be start with an introduction by Ken and feature a new version of a song in the play recorded during the pandemic by Ken's group "Occurrence".
THE AWAKE
Three strangers—a devoted son, an Eastern European actress and a Canadian man on the run—awaken to discover they are connected by a mysterious corporation. Faced with lives they no longer recognize, they take shelter in dreams. But a series of chance encounters forces these strangers to face the truth.
KEN URBAN (Playwright)
Ken’s plays include A Guide for the Homesick, The Remains, Sense of an Ending, The Correspondent, A Future Perfect, The Awake, and The Happy Sad. His plays have been produced at the Huntington Theatre Company, Studio Theatre, Trafalgar Studios in the West End, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, 59E59 Theatres, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Theatre503 (London) and First Floor Theater. Awards include the Weissberger Playwriting Award, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Huntington Theater Playwriting Fellowship, Headlands Artist Residency, Djerassi Artist Residency, Dramatist Guild Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship, and MacDowell Colony Fellowships. He wrote the screenplay for the feature-film adaptation of The Happy Sad. His plays are published by Dramatists Play Service, and they have been featured in numerous monologue anthologies. He is the head of dramatic writing at MIT.
OCCURRENCE
Occurrence explores inner turmoil and erotic tension through noise and technology. Their music has been called “a formidable electro-space post-punk beast” (Atwood Magazine), “the near perfect synthesis between the universe of David Lynch and industrial music” (Froggy’s Delight), and "what it might sound like to crawl through the screen" (Forestpunk). Their latest album EVERYONE KNOWS THE DISASTER IS COMING was called a “wiry brew of warbling electronics, fiery post-punk swagger and subtly mutated pop arrangements” (The Southern Sounding). The band released a companion mini-album IF HE WERE HERE featuring new songs and remixes of EVERYONE tracks by the likes of Conelrad, H1987, Assembled Minds and Daniel Kluger. All proceeds from IF HE WERE HERE will be donated to anti-gun violence campaigns.
The song is now available and can be found here:
