Written by Jessica Almasy, Director Jake Margolin, and Company
La Castor Enamorada-Spanish for Daughters THE FATALISTS
August 31, 2012
In Residence: August 27-31, physician 2012
PIA and ZAZA are best friends on the verge of becoming mutually anonymous. When the girls meet some new random arrivals, their ideas about who they are and what they are to each other start to become elastic. This is a world populated by failing magic tricks and mediocre philosophers, maybe some suburban angels, and four Spanish sisters, one of whom’s incarcerated, trying to be role models. A TEST RUN FIRST READING OF A NEW WRITING EXPERIMENT.A one night only followed by conversation and refreshments.
Workshop Showing:
Friday, August 31 2012 7pm
At IRT: 154 Christopher st. #3B (third floor)
Tickets FREE
– Running time about 2 hours
WRITER JESSICA ALMASY is a commercial, theatre, film, television, and audiobook actress, a writer and a teacher. she is a candidate for her MFA at Brooklyn College in the playwriting department led by Mac Wellman. www.theteamplays.org
DIRECTOR JAKE MARGOLIN ,Jake is a New York based performer and artist. As a member of The TEAM Jake has created and performed in three plays which have toured throughout North America, the UK and Europe: Architecting, Particularly In The Heartland (Best Male Performance Nom. Dublin Fringe) and Howl.
Over the last several years he has been creating performance/installation art with his husband, Nick Vaughan. Nick and Jake presented Preparations for a Marriage in Pittsburgh in 2007, created the environment for Pavel Zustiak’s S(even) in Pittsbugh in 2007, created an installation for Yoshiko Chuma’s Shredded, and are developing A Marriage: 1 as HARP artists at the HERE Arts Center.
Jake and Chantal Pavageaux co-founded Royal Lace Paper Works, a performance art collaboration which presented Breezy Pines as part of the Mabou Mines Resident Artist Program, The Political Party in Minneapolis in 2008, and The RV Party in RV campgrounds and truck stops throughout the United States in 2005.
Jake created text for and performed in Yoshiko Chuma’s Page Out Of Order Not About Romanian Cinema throughout Romania and at Danspace in New York, and is currently working on her piece about Palestine, 6 Seconds in Ramallah