Art Manke

Art Manke

Art Manke is an award-winning director and playwright. Credits include work with South Coast Rep, Denver Center Theatre Company, Pasadena Playhouse, Milwaukee Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, among others. His plays include an adaptation of D. H. Lawrence's WOMEN IN LOVE (co-author, Douglas Langworthy) and his stinging new comedy of political correctness run amok, ART ATTACK.

Plays

  • Art Attack by Art Manke
    Recommendations: 4
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    Cast: 
    7
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 4 more
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    Keyword: cultural appropriation, black lives matter + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, political, romantic comedy, satire
    Keyword: cultural appropriation, black lives matter, political correctness, Contemporary art, Los Angeles
    A female artist runs headlong into the buzz saw of cultural appropriation and political correctness when her controversial painting is exhibited at a prominent biennial exhibition.
  • Women in Love by Art Manke
    Cast: 
    8
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    Genre: adaptation, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: women, sexuality + 4 more
    Genre: adaptation, dark comedy, drama, period, tragedy
    Keyword: women, sexuality, homosexuality, Classic Literature, D.H. Lawrence, early 20th century
    D. H. Lawrence’s "Women in Love" adapted for the stage by Art Manke and Douglas Langworthy. In the wake of World War I, as England is reeling from change all around, the Brangwen sisters – Ursula and Gudren – search for love that is unfettered by societal expectations and constraints. They find it, respectively, with the bohemian Rupert Birkin and the deeply troubled industrialist Gerald Crich. As...
    D. H. Lawrence’s "Women in Love" adapted for the stage by Art Manke and Douglas Langworthy. In the wake of World War I, as England is reeling from change all around, the Brangwen sisters – Ursula and Gudren – search for love that is unfettered by societal expectations and constraints. They find it, respectively, with the bohemian Rupert Birkin and the deeply troubled industrialist Gerald Crich. As they travel from the confines of England to the chilling freedom of the Alps, their foursome is fractured by erotic impulses, unrequited love and a harrowing suicide. What is, perhaps, most remarkable in D.H. Lawrence’s classic, is Rupert’s radical search for a relationship with a man that would be equal to his relationship with a woman. This desire to redefine and re-label relationships continues to this day.

Recommended by Art Manke

  • THE ICE-BREAKER by David Rambo
    14 May. 2020
    “ "The Ice-Breaker" is a prescient look at climate science that is, at the same time, a deeply moving exploration of a surprisingly original, May-December relationship. ”