Adobe Rose Theatre – Theatre Matters.

ART Productions Presents: HOSTAGE

October 10^th - 27^th
Thursday – Saturday 7:30 PM, Sundays 3 PM
THE SWAN (Formerly the Adobe Rose Theatre)

$25 | Seniors $20 | Students $15 | Kids 12 & Under $10

In our increasingly polarized society, perhaps there are lessons we can gather from the idealism of an everyday person; a mother, having the courage to stand outside politics out of love for her son. – Michelle Kholos Brooks

Join us on the fortieth anniversary of the Iran Hostage Crisis as Adobe Rose Theatre Productions brings the real Barbara Timm and playwright, Michelle Kholos Brooks, to Santa Fe for a talkback after the Sunday matinee on 10/20/2019! Don't miss the chance to meet this unsung American hero who defied the US State Department and braved the Iranian student rebels who took over the US Embassy. Her story and Michelle Kholos Brooks’ artful presentation of it can teach us so much about tolerance, acceptance, and love, even as we are experiencing increased tensions with Iran today.

HOSTAGE

by

Michelle Kholos Brooks

Directed by Jessica Hanna

STARRING

Brent Black* (Kenny), Dan Burkarth* (Richard), Maureen Joyce Mckenna* (Barbara), Nadine Pineda (Tehran Mary), Koppany Pusztai (Kevin), and Aidan Viscarra (Ebrahim).

*Appearing courtesy of Actors' Equity Association

Adobe Rose Theatre Productions is pleased to present "Hostage," a groundbreaking new play by Michelle Kholos Brooks. The year is 1979, the place Tehran, where 40 years ago this fall, a group of Iranian college students took over the American Embassy and made hostages of the fifty-two US diplomats and citizens inside. Back in Wisconsin, Barbara Timm defied the US Government, boarded a plane and flew to Tehran, demanding to see the youngest hostage—her 21-year-old son, Kevin. The play is a powerful tribute to the love and nerve of a mother who would not take no for an answer and a thrilling 75-minute roller coaster ride with no intermission that is all at once tender, funny, tumultuous and riveting

Brooks’ new drama is filtered through the intensely personal perspective of a mother intent upon freeing her son from captivity … she captures the natural maternal imperative to protect family with emotionally shattering specificity.

– LA Times

The beauty of Hostage is that it shows how a woman went to Iran to ensure her son was safe but in doing so learned a lot about herself and her son’s captors. It manages to show more than one side of a topic and the human inside each individual.

– Talkinbroadway.com

Meet the Playwright

on October 20th

at the Talkback at the Swan Theatre

Michelle Kholos Brooks is a former journalist and producer for public radio programs. Hostage was a finalist for The Woodward/Newman Drama Award, The Fratti Newman Political Play Contest and a National New Play Network showcase finalist. Her play Hitler's Tasters won the Glaspell Award and was featured in this summer's Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

In our increasingly polarized society, perhaps there are lessons we can gather from the idealism of an everyday person, a mother, having the courage to stand outside politics out of love for her son. – Michelle Kholos Brooks

Meet the Director

on October 12th

at our Pre-Show Reception

Jessica Hanna is a Los Angeles based Director & Producer and Artist in Residence at Thymele Arts. She is a new member of The Kilroys, an activist artists group working for gender parity in the American Theatre through guerilla actions. She has worked as an actor, director, choreographer and producer all over Los Angeles. In June 2006 she co-founded Bootleg Theater and was the Producing & Managing Director through 2018. Her focus as a freelance director & producer has been on new work development. Recent directing credits include: Lisa Dring's DEATH PLAY at Circle X Theatre, NO HOMO, at Hollywood Fringe (Winner Best Director, Ensemble Theater, World Premiere and Golden Playwright), New York Fringe and Atwater Village Theatres, FOUR CHORDS AND A GUN by John Ross Bowie at Bootleg, I CARRY YOUR HEART by Georgette Kelly at Bootleg, PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT, the musical, at Celebration Theatre (Winner 2019 Ovation Award Best Production of a Musical, 7 Nominations including Best Director). JessQueen.com for contact & more info. Come meet Jessica at our Saturday, October 12^th pre-show reception, starting at 6:45 pm.

SPECIAL EVENTS AT THE SWAN

Oct 8: Theatre Lovers Club Oct 12: Preshow wine and cheese at 6:45 pm Oct 20: Meet Barbara Timm and Michelle Kholos Brooks at a talkback after the Sunday Matinee