>FYI/FOR RELEASE > > >"Dwight Hobbes' Shelter offers one of the grittiest, honest and powerful >looks into the world we all wish didn't exist. His penetrating and direct >exploration of the lives of people under stress and the sound of their >voices resonates. This is a play that needed to be written as it opens the >door to a room full of real people we do not usually get to see." > > - Alexs D. Pate (Finding Makeba, Amistad) > > >HOMELESS IS NOT WHERE THE HEART IS > >In sobering evidence of the old saw "it takes one to know one," Dwight >Hobbes� play Shelter translates crack-addicted homelessness out of the realm >of social work into a stark, full-length drama. Don't expect tears. Based >on the author's homeless past Shelter is entirely unsentimental. Developed >through readings at the Playwrights Center, Illusion Theatre and Pillsbury >House Theatre, it is produced by Pangea World Theater and opens at Mixed >Blood Theatre in March for a three-week run. Shelter is based on Hobbes' >article, "If You Won't Help Self";which appeared the Washington Post, >Reader's Digest and in the opinion journal Colors. It also appears in >Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum (7th Edition - Longman >Publishers). Hobbes has been interviewed on homelessness by National Public >Radio and Minnesota Public Radio. > Dwight Hobbes' other plays are: You Can't Always Sometimes Never Tell, >published in the anthology CENTER STAGE (University of Illinois Press - 3rd >edition), produced by Theater Center Philadelphia and by Long Island >University with staged readings by KENNEDY CENTER at Pennsylvania State >University and by Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center at Schomburg >Center for Research and Black Art; In The Midst Of Love produced by Long >Island University; and Flying On The Ground (vignette for WSNL-TV). > Hobbes has contributed to Essence magazine, St. Paul Pioneer Press, >Minneapolis StarTribune, Mpls/St. Paul magazine and Pulse of the Twin >Cities. His column "Something I Said" runs in the African American weekly >Insight News where Hobbes is lead arts writer. He has taught writing at the >Playwrights Center, The Loft and at the Minnesota Newspaper Foundation. > Shelter, directed by Dipankar Mukherjee, is produced by Pangea World >Theater at Mixed Blood Theatre (612-338-6131), and runs Thurs. - Sun. at 8 >p.m. for three weeks, beginning March 27.
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