Slightly Askew

July 6 - August 2, 2009

3B Development Series

Written by Meryl Murman and Emilie Whelan We Three Kings is a multimedia collaboration between artists of New Orleans’ Cripple Creek Theatre Company Mondo Bizarro and NYC-based Slightly Askew. We Three Kings was originally workshopped under Cripple Creek’s Stagewriter’s Workshop in January of 2008. Since then, ampoule the piece has traveled to Austin, TX for the 2008 Fuse Box Festival, New Orleans for the 2009 State of the Nation Festival, and now IRT in New York. The piece has utilized over 100 live and filmed New Orleans actors, and a NYC-based tech team of nearly 10 persons. In its completed version, We Three Kings requires 2 live actors and a tech team of 5 persons. We Three Kings stays with an old man through a night of fitful sleep. When he awakes, the piece shuts down like a machine, but when he sleeps he dreams of a young Black girl who in turn dreams of three dynamic characters from different time periods of the Mississippi River’s history. With allegory from Greek Mythology, live and prerecorded music, film displayed on five separate scrims, and a large “donut” that the audience lays down on, archetypes and Southern Folklore are explored and exposed as nostalgic and stuck. Project Open House at IRT, Monday July 13, 7pm – FREE Drinks and discussion on the making of the piece, New Orleans, and bridging the gaps in American multimedia performance This production was developed with equipment provided by GSRT’s Digital Performance Institute: a laboratory for innovative performance technology. http://digitalperformance.org