The Rest I Make Up, a documentary about María Irene Fornés

by Michelle Memran
Monday, May 7, 2018 - 7:00pm
Venue: 
Landmark Lagoon Cinema, 1320 Lagoon Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55408
Cost: 
Free

Join the Playwrights’ Center, FilmNorth, and the Dramatists Guild Foundation for the Minnesota premiere of Michelle Memran’s powerful documentary The Rest I Make Up, about playwright María Irene Fornés. There will be a post-screening discussion with director Michelle Memran and award-winning playwright Migdalia Cruz.

Space is limited. RSVP through FilmNorth here »

María Irene Fornés is recognized as one of America’s most influential playwrights and teachers, even if she is not among the most well known. Though she gradually stopped writing due to dementia, a chance encounter with filmmaker Michelle Memran reignited her spontaneous creative spirit and triggered a decade-long collaboration that picked up “where the pen left off.” The duo travel from New York to Havana, Miami to Seattle, exploring Fornés’s remembered past and their shared present. Theater luminaries such as Edward Albee, Ellen Stewart, Lanford Wilson, and others weigh in on Fornés’s important contributions. The film is ultimately a story of love, connection, and creativity that persists even in the face of forgetting.

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Maria Irene Fornes and Michelle Memran