At the Tenth Annual KPBS Sponsored Patté Awards for Theatre Excellence (2006), theatre critic and host Pat Launer honored a “plucky little theatre company that took on a provocative production” and awarded Laterthanever Productions a Patté for Outstanding Production of Hannah and Martin, Kate Fodor’s gripping drama about the love affair between Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt and her teacher, philosopher and Nazi sympathizer, Martin Heidegger. We are proud of this award and grateful to all our sponsors for helping create our success.

This coming season we want to build on our success by embarking on an ambitious project. We want to undertake an innovative two-part series of one-acts, He Said/She Said, featuring original adaptations of short stories by two prominent writers, one man (Raymond Carver) and one woman (Grace Paley), who have explored the conflicts and complexities of intimacy and human communication in family dynamics. We believe such a series would dramatize issues salient in many people’s lives in these times of economic and political dislocation, and would serve our mission to “foster dialogue and debate…about important social and cultural issues.”

To develop this series, we have selected several stories by Raymond Carver, which explore how alcoholism, violence, and economic dislocation affect family life. Laterthanever’s Artistic Director, Federico Moramarco has taught seminars in Ray Carver’s work for over a dozen years and just finished adapting three of his stories. And to companion these, we have selected several stories by Grace Paley to provide a different situational and narrative perspective. Managing Director of Laterthanever, Kathleen B. Jones, a long time Grace Paley fan, will adapt several of Paley’s stories for the stage. The Carver plays will open on January 5, 2009 and run until February 1, 2009 at the Tenth Avenue Theatre. The Paley plays will be held during women’s history month, March 2009, in the same space.

To bring these original, provocative plays to a San Diego audience, we need your support. Please consider a tax-deductible contribution to Laterthanever Productions in one of the following categories to make the San Diego stage bristle with these important works in 2009. We appreciate whatever contribution you can make to deepen and expand the availability of serious, thought-provoking theater in San Diego.

Sincerely,

Federico Moramarco, Artistic Director

Kathy Jones, Managing Director

Laterthanever Productions is a 503 (c) (3) non profit corporation. All gifts are tax deductible, so you’ll appreciate having given this contribution around income tax time.