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Author: David Simmons

Bring Joe Hill – Alive as You and Me – to your city/campus/union

Bring  Joe Hill – Alive as You and Me – to your city/campus/union

Click on the link below for details about our show, Joe Hill – Alive as You and Me. We are now booking dates for fall of 2025 and all of 2026 FermatsTheater_JoeHill_WebPromo_Final  

David Simmons March 6, 2025March 7, 2025 Past Productions Read more

No Regrets! Albert Camus and Edith Piaf in the French Resistance

No Regrets!  Albert Camus and Edith Piaf in the French Resistance

    Paris – spring 1944.  The City of Light has been under the dark shadow of German occupation for four long years.  Hundreds of thousands had left Paris in June of 1940 when Germany invaded and defeated the French

David Simmons November 11, 2024November 12, 2024 Past Productions, Uncategorized Read more

Mother Courage Alone

Mother Courage Alone

April 5/6/7 2024 – A dramatic reading with music and images ArtLitLab Madison, WI Mother Courage – Maggie Schenk Narrator – David Simmons Musician – Diana Wheeler Photos by Hans Adler Special thanks to UW professors Nam Kim and Marc

David Simmons April 23, 2024April 30, 2024 Past Productions Read more

The Morrison Case – A short play by Albert Maltz

The Morrison Case – A short play by Albert Maltz

The Morrison Case A short play by Albert Maltz, 1952 Introduction by Patrick Chura, Distinguished Professor of English, University of Akron Cast: Peter Morrison – Tom Kastle Captain – Alex Hancock Mr. Butler – Daniel Graupner Mr. Hodges & Mr.

David Simmons October 27, 2023November 6, 2023 Past Productions Read more

Dear Theo: The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

Dear Theo: The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

Cast Melvin Hinton as the voice of Vincent Maggie Schenk as the narrator Diana Wheeler, violin for the live reading, Daniel Plane cello for the recording David Simmons – producer/director/script writer Graphic design by Krissy Pohold April 13, 2023  ArtLitLab,

David Simmons April 29, 2023December 13, 2023 Past Productions Read more

T’ART & TRACES Hans Adler – Black-and-White Photography

T’ART & TRACES is a collection of photography by Hans Adler, on display at the UW Madison Fluno Center, 601 University Avenue, Madison WI  March 5 to May 30, 2023    

David Simmons March 21, 2023March 27, 2023 Stuff We Like Read more

WE WILL NOT BE SILENT! Sophie Scholl and the White Rose 2022

WE WILL NOT BE SILENT!  Sophie Scholl and the White Rose  2022

Cast Maggie Schenk – narrator and voice of Sophie Scholl Daniel Graupner – narrator Daniel Plane – cello David Simmons – producer/director Marc Silberman & Hans Adler – advisors/dramaturgs Graphic design by Krissy Pohold Thanks also to Stephani Richards-Wilson for

David Simmons November 15, 2022August 10, 2023 Past Productions Read more

Hovering Above the Abyss – An Evening with Franz Kafka 2022

Hovering Above the Abyss – An Evening with Franz Kafka  2022

  Click this link to watch the reading and images: http://vimeo.com/user184187732/ Thanks to the many individual donors who helped make this reading possible July 29, 2022, at the Arts + Literature Laboratory, and to the overflow crowd who came out

David Simmons August 18, 2022December 7, 2022 Past Productions Read more

Joe Hill – Alive as You and Me 2022

Joe Hill – Alive as You and Me 2022

Joe Hill – Alive as You and Me Performed at The Dark Horse Artbar, Madison WI. April 7, 2022 Singer/storyteller Tom Kastle David Simmons, Producer/Director Script by David Simmons and Tom Kastle, Copyright 2022 by Fermat’s Last Theater Co. Special

David Simmons April 25, 2022December 7, 2022 Past Productions Read more

Laughin’ to Keep From Cryin’ – Oh! Those Blues of Langston Hughes

Laughin’ to Keep From Cryin’ – Oh! Those Blues of Langston Hughes

Video from this show is being reworked … please be patient. Performed at The Crucible, Madison WI, September 30, 2021 LAUGHIN’ TO KEEP FROM CRYIN’: Oh! Those Blues of Langston Hughes Created and curated by Quanda Johnson Very few poets

David Simmons November 5, 2021September 12, 2024 Black writers and artists, Past Productions Read more
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"Ways of Seeing." Mike Fischer, for World Premiere Wisconsin"

The Arts Generate a Lot of Money. So Why are Artists Broke?" Mike Fischer, for World Premiere Wisconsin

‘Joe Hill, Alive as You and Me’ unites and inspires in Akron

The Songs And Stories Of Working-Class Hero Joe Hill

Hovering Above the Abyss: An Evening With Franz Kafka

Quanda Johnson reads James Baldwin

James Baldwin and the N-word

An Evening With James Baldwin (Tone Madison)

Bertolt Brecht and the Artist's Duty to Truth (WORT)

Mother Courage Alone at Fermat’s Last Theater in Madison by Brandy E. Wilcox, ecibs: Communications of the International Brecht Society, Issue 1 2018

Acting Un-American on WORT on Labor Radio – April 7, 2018

‘Mother Courage' unplugged Fermat theater group pares down Brecht's classic by Aaron R. Conklin, Madison Magazine – Sept. 23, 2017

Scripting "The Trial": Local writer converts a Kafka classic by Aaron R. Conklin, Madison Magazine – June 23, 2016

Free theater: Fermat’s Last Theater Company stages an edgy tale of class, sex and power by Catherine Capellaro, The Isthmus – June 9, 2015

Fermat's Last Theater Company sets a genderqueer "Troilus and Cressida" in a circus ring by Laura Jones, The Isthmus – August 8, 2014

Fermat's Last Theater Company makes a strong debut with "The Merchant of Venice" by Laura Jones, The Isthmus – August 3, 2013

The new kid on the block: Meet Fermat's Last Theater Company
by Jessica Steinhoff, The Isthmus – August 2, 2013

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  • Bring Joe Hill – Alive as You and Me – to your city/campus/union
  • No Regrets! Albert Camus and Edith Piaf in the French Resistance
  • Mother Courage Alone
  • The Morrison Case – A short play by Albert Maltz
  • Dear Theo: The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

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