Throwing Bones
Anaphylaxis
March 7-21, 2010
Ana is allergic to everything. She was designed that way. Frank is under orders to replace her memory every few days; he’s not doing a very good job. When tinkering with DNA has gone too far, human nature takes a turn for the worse.
Directed by Sheila Daniels
With: Mary Jane Gibson and Scott Nath
10 SHOWS: March 10-21
March 10 (Weds) (preview) – 8pm
March 11 (Thurs) (opening) – 8pm
March 12 (Fri) – 8pm
March 13 (Sat) – 8pm
March 15 (Mon) – 8pm
March 17 (Weds) – 8pm
March 18 (Thurs) – 8pm
March 19 (Fri) – 8pm
March 20 (Sat) – 8pm
March 21 (Sun) – 3pm
Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/99189
ARTISTS
Our collaboration on ANAPHYLAXIS began in 2003, when we performed it at the Seattle International Fringe Festival, where the piece was awarded Artistic Pick. We planned to develop the piece further, following Scott and Mary Jane’s move to New York.
We are three artists with a long history of collaboration. We met and worked together in various shows in Seattle almost a decade ago, and we have forged bonds through work, friendship, travel, and love. Our paths have taken us in many directions – regional theatre, developing new work, the fringe circuit, playwrighting, video editing – and we have three very distinct viewpoints. ANAPHYLAXIS is a physical, dynamic, visually striking piece that reflects our passion for compelling and intriguing storytelling.
Sheila Daniels (Director) Based in Seattle since 1994, Sheila served as Associate Director of Seattle’s Intiman Theatre, co-founded and served as Co-Artistic Director of both Theater Under Ground and Baba Yaga Productions, and has held positions as Associate Artistic Director at Capitol Hill Arts Center (CHAC) and Artistic Director of Theater Schmeater. Her directing credits include According to Coyote (Children’s Theatre Company, Minneapolis), Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Crime and Punishment, A Streetcar Named Desire (Intiman Theatre), Electra, Pericles (Seattle Shakespeare Company), Rubble Women (UMO Ensemble), According to Coyote (Seattle Children’s Theatre), Crime and Punishment (Theater Under Ground/CHAC), Waiting for Lefty, God’s Country, Arcadia (CHAC), Rhoda: A Life in Stories (Book-It), The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Strawberry Theatre Workshop), Burning Bridget Cleary (Ladykiller Productions), Macbeth (Wooden O), The Last State (On the Boards), Vaya con Lola, Shock Brigades: Women in Combat (Baba Yaga), Anaphylaxis (Throwing Bones), and Trojan Women: A Love Story, Dream of a Common Language, Language of Angels, Transformations and Other Tales, The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek (Theater Schmeater). She has also worked as an actor and adapted numerous texts for the stage, including a commission from the Tacoma Museum of Glass to adapt and direct A.S. Byatt’s short story COLD. She taught Acting and Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration from 1998-2008 at Cornish College of the Arts, while serving as a Resident Director there. Upcoming productions include Much Ado About Nothing and a new, devised piece based on Virginia Woolf’s The Waves.
Mary Jane Gibson (Ana) grew up in Newfoundland, and trained in Montreal and the UK. She wrote and performed in Anaphylaxis (Artistic Pick, 2003 Seattle International Fringe Festival), and with Nicole duFresne wrote and performed in Burning Cage (Artistic Pick, 2002 SIFF). Other Seattle credits include Abe Lincoln in Illinois (Intiman), Alki (ACT), Measure for Measure (Seattle Shakespeare Company) and Holes (Seattle Children’s Theatre). New York credits include White Hot (HERE), Extropia and Liliom (Flying Carpet Theatre), M4M and Rehearsal: Vanya (Quality Meats). Mary Jane was awarded the Fox Foundation Fellowship in 1999. She is a founding member of The Fabulists—www.thefabulists.com.
Scott Nath (Frank, video production), an Iowa native, lived from the American south to the Pacific Northwest until settling in New York. NYC credits include Four Gorn Conclusions (Riant Theatre), Rehearsal Vanya (Quality Meats), Scribblin at the Automat (idegosuperego), Merry Wives of Windsor (Prospect Theatre), Cold (PTTP) as well as a brief appearance on Law & Order. Regional credits include Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Intiman Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Shenandoah Shakespeare, Theatre Memphis, Theater Schmeater, Taproot Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, and Book-It Repertory. He was a performer in Anaphylaxis which was the Artistic Pick of the 2003 Seattle International Fringe Festival. For the latest info about Scott, see scottnath.com.