The Arctic Group
Daphne & Pomegrenade
Sep.13– 24 2017
IN RESIDENCE: August 29, 2017- September 25, 2017
DAPHNE: Daphne is a tree. But she wasn’t always. In fact, she’d do anything to be human again. Even if it means undergoing the ax… Spun from a love of vegetation and Greek mythology, Daphne is a hero’s journey of survival, symbol, and poetic endurance.
POMEGRENADE: Persephone gets snatched to the underworld, but the place isn’t really what she expected. Hades has his own problems to deal with as well, especially when the memory archive is at capacity with the refugees pouring into the world of the dead.
PERFORMANCES: September 13 – September 24, 2017
DAPHNE performs on
14th 8pm, 16th 5pm (Opening), 17th 7pm, 19th 8pm, 21st 8pm, 23rd 8pm, and 24th 3pm.
POMEGRENADE performs on
13th 8pm, 15th 8pm, 16th 8pm (Opening), 17th 2pm, 20th 8pm, 22nd 8pm, 23rd 2pm, and 24th 7pm.
LENGTH OF SHOW:
Daphne- 60 minutes
Pomegrenade- 2 hrs and 20 minutes including intermission
PRICE: General-$18.00, 9/16 Joint opening package $32
At IRT:154 Christopher st. NYC #3B (third floor)
Daphne
Written by Alice Pencavel
Directed by Paul Bedard
Choreography is by Melissa Brading
Production Design by Claire Moodey
Original Score by Daniel Emond
Stage Managed by Cody Hom
FEATURING Daniel Emond*, Susan Mandel, Claire Moodey*, Jonelle Robinson, and Alison Walter
*Appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association
Equity Approved Showcase
Pomegrenade
Written and Directed by Ran Xia
Associate Director Julia Levine
Assistant Director Jake Beckhard and Charotte Arnoux
Music Arrangement by Emily Krause
Fight Choreography is by Madeleine Emerick
Set Design is by Julie A. Solomon
Sound Design is by Ran Xia
Lighting Design is by Elizabeth M. Stewart
FEATURING Zoe Abuyuan, Diane Chen, Jes Davis, Maricelis Galanes, Sean Hinckle, Finn Kilgore, Lizzy Ana Lincoln, Andrea Negrete, Jara Skagfjord, Sarah Gwynne Walker, and Marie Zoumanigui.
Alice Pencavel: Work includes The Glowing Boot (Best Emerging Actress, United Solo Festival; Portland Fringe Festival), Pie Shop Play (finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival), The Dutch Goose (semi-finalist, Eugene O’Neill Playwright’s Conference), Totally Wholesome Foods; Bubbles; Nanners in da Face; Oh My God (Politico-Comico reading series); A Box in the Mountains (reading, Naked Angels), Nightmare (Theater in the Room, Kiev, Ukraine), Field Trip: A Climate Cabaret, (Superhero Clubhouse), Nettles (semi-finalist, Manhattan Rep), A Call From the Devil (Oh Force Theatre Co.), Jeans Make Art (Romanian/American New Play Exchange), The Spider & The Wasp; How it Happens; Fly Away; What I Knead; and Yours, Truly (New School). BFA Acting, Ithaca College; MFA Playwriting New School for Drama.
RAN XIA: interdisciplinary dramatist, co-founder of The Arctic Group and co-curator of The Polar Bear Plunge at Lucky Jack’s NYC.
Past visual arts projects include Art Takes Times Square, Stories of the Creative (SEE.ME), Dacia Gallery (Times Square Arts Centre), Spiegel Me (Installation at Fountains Foundation, Columbia College, Chicago).
Recent theatre credits include Harmony (a prerecorded virtual audio play), De Profundis, The Enchanted Realm of Rene Magritte (Co-Writer, Exquisite Corpse Company), Wanda, Daisy, & the Great Rapture (Director, Exquisite Corpse Company), Disability (Director, play by Ivan Faute, Planet Connections Festival), Princess Anybody (Dir. Rachel Graf Evans, A physical performance piece/forum theatre), Word Play (Radioactive Festival and Midtown International Theatre Festival 2016), [AI] (An adaptation of Ayn Rand’s Novella Anthem at Brick Theater), Baby Fat: Act I (A punk rock opera based on Screeching Weasel’s album of same title, Dir. Michael Scholar, Jr. with Columbia Stages and LA MAMA)
“Playwright and director Ran Xia has dropped us into an ocean of darkness and coaxes us toward sound and light in this delicate, dreamlike play… It’s a delightful fantasy…”
–– Jacquelyn Claire, NYTheatreGuide
De Profundis’s celebration of sound finds its full expression in writer/director Ran Xia’s lyrical text … Like the hybrid creatures it evokes, beckons from a dreamlike liminal world…”
—Emily Cordes, Theatre Is Easy
IRT Theater is a grassroots laboratory for independent theater and performance in New York City, providing space and support to a new generation of artists. Tucked away in the old Archive Building in Greenwich Village, IRT’s mission is to build a community of emerging and established artists by creating a home for the development and presentation of new work. Some of the artists we have supported include Young Jean Lee, Reggie Watts and Mike Daisey.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, and The Nancy Quinn Fund, a project of ART-NY.
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***IRT is a fully wheelchair-accessible facility.***