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Developing Now

Ben Vershbow — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:46:49 +0000

A cinema/theatre hybrid that deconstructs the classic myth from the inside out by colliding the grand narratives of Greek tragedy with the private internal narratives of modernist literature, poetry, and film.

The Orpheus Variations

davganim — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:57:33 +0000

The Orpheus Variations re-imagines the classic myth of Orpheus and Eurydice in the Underworld as the tale of a transcendent sound-maker struck mute by the suicide of his lover. In a desperate attempt to reconstruct the decaying past, the sound-maker obsessively fills thousands of glass jars with single objects – keepsakes – each endowed with a singular memory of his beloved. The Orpheus Variations is a cinema/theatre hybrid that deconstructs the classic myth from the inside out by colliding the grand narratives of Greek tragedy with the private internal narratives of modernist literature, poetry, and film.

The Deconstructive Theatre Project is a Brooklyn-based not-for-profit ensemble performance laboratory that exists to devise and premiere new multidisciplinary work. The company is dedicated to producing performances that experiment with the relationships between theatrical vocabularies, content, and form and to providing broad community access to its process and productions.

The work is gestated over the course of one year using the company’s three-stage creative model. Stage One of The Orpheus Variations will be developed from January 25 – February 3. The production will premiere in New York City in autumn 2012.

A Collaboratively Devised Work.
Conceived & Directed by: Adam J. Thompson
Text by: Lauren Feldman
Live Video & Projection Design by: Bart Cortright
Scenic Design by: Paul DePoo III
Sound Design by: Anthony Matanna
Performance Ensemble: Mitchell Dean, Brian DeCaluwe, Jacob Heimer, Zac Jaffee, Cybele Kaufmann, Nicki Miller, Kendall Rileigh, Laura Sisskin-Fernandez

deconstructivetheatreproject.org

West-Side Experiment Teaser

davganim — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:26:53 +0000

In the summer of 2012, IRT is expanding its mission to include educating the next generation of theater artists. Join The Operating Theater as they lead students through an incredible development process resulting in a show at IRT! Click through for more details!

West-Side Experiment

davganim — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:21:11 +0000

(Ages 13-17)

Since 2007 IRT Theater, a key resource for independent theater makers in New York City, has made a mission of hosting radically affordable, full-immersion development residences for emerging and established artists.

In the summer of 2012, IRT is expanding its mission to include educating the next generation of theater artists.

An offshoot of IRT’s 3B Development Series, the Westside Experiment will offer students the skills to create original devised theater in collaboration with a working theater company in residency at IRT. The Westside Experiment is a two-week workshop offering classes in physical actor training, voice, playwriting/self-scripting, and apprenticeship with IRT artists-in-residence to create their own original theater. This unique model offers both the student and artist a true constructivist learning experience, working side by side to create a final culminating performance for an invited audience in a completely hands-on way.

For more information about West-Side Experiment,

please contact Kori Rushton, we@irttheater.org.

Resident Company: Operating Theater

Dates: July 9-21 2012
Times: 9 am – 2 pm Monday-Friday

Performance: Saturday July 21 2012

Tuition: $600 per two-week session

About this Summer’s Program:

Students will work with professional performing artists from The Operating Theater to create an interactive performance set in an outpost laboratory at the edge of reality. In an otherworldly environment, a pair of brilliant, young scientists is on the verge of a major discovery that will save humanity! Through their invention, the Portal of Parallels, a variety of guest characters appear: aliens, a glam-rock band, Sedgwick the psychic chicken, and giant creatures from other dimensions. The guests help the audience and scientists solve physical and philosophical problems to save reality and help everyone to return to the “real” world.

About The Operating Theater:

The award-winning Operating Theater creates performance that can only be experienced in a live forum. They explore perspective and engage audiences in active participation to alter our relationship of the world in a positive, lasting way.

Lead artists from the Operating Theater include Kourtney Rutherford and Jason Schuler.

Kourtney Rutherford recently performed in Portraits In Dramatic Time at the Lincoln Center Festival. Ms. Rutherford is a member of Big Dance Theater, and enjoyed performing to rave reviews in their Bessie Award winning production of Comme Toujours Here I Stand, which has appeared in Lyon, France, at The Kitchen, CUNY, The New Museum, and the French Institute/Alliance Francaise.

From the archives…

Ben Vershbow — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:10:08 +0000

3B Development project, February 2009

Presented at PS122, February-March 2011

The Thing About Dan

davganim — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:27:44 +0000

Join Slightly Altered States Theater Company – The Thing About Dan
IRT: 154 Christopher St, #3B (third floor)
Thursday Friday and Saturday shows, February 9th, 10th, 11th, and 16th, 17th, 18th, all at 8pm

Celebrate the formation of Slightly Altered States Theater Company and the premiere of the original play The Thing About Dan, written by Sari Caine Glickstein, opening February 9th, and running Thursday, Friday, and Saturday through the 18th.

Starring Louis Kornfeld, a renowned improviser, and Michael Hurst, a New York City-based actor and musician, The Thing About Dan is a warped and wistful play about two men, Paul and Zip, that are running as fast as they can away from reality.

Paul and Zip ar e waiting for Dan, the friend who keeps their lives running smoothly.
The thing is, he’s sleeping with their wives.

3B Archive teaser

Ben Vershbow — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:17:46 +0000

Explore the 3B community…

Experiment Sessions Vol IV

davganim — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:28:28 +0000

Join the LabRats – The Experiment Sessions Vol IV
IRT: 154 Christopher St, #3B (third floor)
Saturday and Sunday, January 21st and 22nd from 2-9pm
FREE!

The Experiment Sessions are a full day of “open door” theater, where you, our friends, audience and community can come check out over 16 new projects in development throughout the course of the day. It is a marathon of uncensored work in multidisciplinary forms; readings of plays, fiction/ non-fiction, poetry, live music (acoustic set), movement, dance, ensemble creations and a preview of our upcoming production of our plays in rep: HA! HA! and SO by members Larry Dial and Suzanne Heathcote.

Come see one, four or ten, enjoy tons of free food and get to know the LabRats, a terrific theater company of talented, generous, funny, and friendly folks who have been collaborating over the past 3 years. This is our biannual opportunity for the LabRats to share and celebrate what we have been working on the entire year with our established and potential supporters and community. Our ‘Open House’ offering.

thelabratsnyc.com

The Scavengers

Ben Vershbow — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:55:28 +0000

The Scavengers is a new play by Eric John Meyer. It tells the story of two brothers who try to escape from the world, but cannot escape each other.

Tanner has brought Victoria to his father’s beach house as part of a game she likes to play–getting random guys to kidnap her. It’s how she lets off steam between modeling gigs. For Tanner, it’s a last ditch effort to make something of his life. Victoria seems to think he has what it takes to become a model too, and she’s promised to introduce him to her all-powerful manager.

But the fantasy goes sour when they discover that Tanner’s younger brother Calvin is also hiding out at the house. He’s given up on grad school, he refuses to eat, and he also refuses to leave. As the brothers battle over their father’s house, Victoria gleefully plays alternating favorites—until the game stops being fun.

Playwright Eric John Meyer and director Hondo Weiss-Richmond have been collaborating since 2010. Their work on the Scavengers began early in 2011. While in residence at IRT, Hondo and Eric will rehearse and mount a workshop production of The Scavengers within a ten-day period. This will be the first time this version of the play gets explored on its feet, after previous readings at The Flea Theater and elsewhere.

Featuring Lauren Ferebee, Parrish Hurley, Richard Lovejoy and Ted Schneider*

*AEA Member

Performances:
Friday, December 30th at 8:00pm
Saturday, December 31st at 2:00pm
At IRT: 154 Christopher St., #3B (third floor)

Artists

Eric John Meyer is a playwright and performer based in New York. His work has been performed at The Flea Theater, The Brick Theater, and The Bowery Poetry Club; with The Nabokov Theatre Company in the UK, the New Orleans Fringe Festival, and the Mother Lodge Live Arts Exchange in Louisville, KY. His plays have received development at The Public Theater, The Flea, and New Dramatists. He was the 2010 Artist in Transit for The Truck Project, which he established with Jean Ann Douglass. He holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College.

Hondo Weiss-Richmond directs new work off-off-Broadway and regionally. Recent New York productions include 7 Lies of an Unbeliever by JT Rogers (‘Sticky’); The Riverside Symphony by Michael Niederman (Planet Connections Theater Festivity); The Greater Good by Jeff Carter (‘Sticky’); Don’t Talk to Strangers by Daniel McCoy (Crosstown Playwrights); Free Play by Michael Niederman (Samuel French 2009 Off-Off-Broadway Festival); The Mushroom Pickers by Jacqueline McCarrick (Alloy Theater); The Turn of the Screw by Jeffrey Hatcher (Door-to-Door Drama). Regionally, he has directed The Fetishist by Michael Edison Hayden and Man Up and Away by Joe Tracz (both at Williamstown Theatre Festival). Hondo was the ’09-’10 Robert Moss Directing Resident at Playwrights Horizons.

For the Sins I Can Remember

Ben Vershbow — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 05:18:05 +0000

For the Sins I Can Remember is a movement-theater piece exploring the humanity of the ordinary women of the American Victorian Era who turned to prostitution as a means of survival. It threads together fragments of narrative and movement into a tragi-absurd meditation on femininity, love, and abandonment.

Work-in-progress showing December 19 at 8pm
At IRT: 154 Christopher St., #3B (third floor)

Featuring Lisa Clair, Donna Costello, Peter Musante, and Mary Kate Schellhardt
Original text contributed by Cynthia Polutanovich
Music by Tony Melone
Devised by Lisa Clair, Donna Costello, Jennifer Sargent, Mary Kate Schellhardt, David Arkema, Peter Musante, Jennifer Stokes
Directed by Jennifer Sargent

Tickets:
$5 – Student/ Low Income Donation
$10 – General Donation
$15 – Supporter Donation

More information at vagabondinventions.com.