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Tatjana In Color

Tatjana In Color
Your Price: $18.99 CDN
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Author: Julia Jordan
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service (cover may change)
Format: Softcover
# of Pages: 53
Pub. Date: 2005
Edition: Acting
ISBN-10: 0822220326
ISBN-13: 9780822220329
Cast Size: 2 female, 3 male (doubling)

About the Play:

Tatjana in Color is a full-length drama by Julia Jordan. In 1912 rural Austria, painter Egon Schiele was arrested and put on trial for corrupting a minor. In Tatjana in Color, young Tatjana accepts the offer of an orange from a mysterious man, and thereby opens the door to a fascinating world of colour and art. Julia Jordan skilfully twines truth and fiction to lead the audience on a merry chase after love and morality.

Tatjana in Color is based on the life of an Austrian Expressionist painter who is accused of having an improper relationship with the twelve year-old daughter of a well-respected retired naval officer – the subject of several of his nude paintings. The story is loosely based on the true story of Tatjana von Mossig, who would not testify against painter Egon Schiele in 1912. All they could prove was that she saw his paintings. He was convicted and served twenty-eight days for "Corruption of Morals." In life, he never painted her. This play imagines that he had and tells the story from her point of view. Twelve-year-old girls of any era can be relentless in the pursuit of grown-up things, and Tatjana is no exception. Even as she becomes obsessed with such adult pursuits as eating sweets, drinking coffee, and taking off her clothes, she vents her frustrations at the restrictions childhood imposes on her younger sister, Antonia. Tatjana discovers the possibilities of a world larger than her 1912 Austrian village and reaches toward the hot core of the something she feels growing inside her. In the process, the women in her life help her discover how to become more than a subject of art.

Tatjana in Color premiered in 1999 at Shepherd College during the Contemporary American Theater Festival in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. The New York premiere in 2003 was off-Broadway at The Culture Project and won the Francesca Primus Prize and was short-listed for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award. The play has been performed in regional and college theatre productions.

Cast: 2 female, 3 male (doubling)

What people say:

"…an adventurous historical drama…a thorough portrait of the urgencies and passionate confusions of adolescence…written with intelligence and poignance." — New York Times

"…Jordan's talent for portraying young people keeps the real story, Tatjana's coming of age, fully and warmly in focus." — New York Newsday

"…showcase[s] a fertile playwriting mind at work…She obviously has a special touch for bringing young people to life…." — CurtainUp

About the Playwright:

Julia Jordan is an award-winning American playwright and screenwriter. Her plays have been produced in New York City and regional theatres around the United States. She is a graduate of Barnard College, the Juilliard School's playwriting program, and holds an M. Phil. from Trinity College, Dublin. She lives in New York City.

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