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ICE FACTORY 2012

 

Jun 27-30

Good Year For Hunters

Written by Jess Barbagallo

Additional Writing by Chris Giarmo

Directed by Jess Barbagallo & Chris Giarmo


Production Staff:

Sound & Props Mike Cacciatore
Lights by Zack Tinkelman
Visual Art Molly Allis
Stage Manager - Liz Nielsen
Technical Advisor - Nathan Lemoine
Costumes from Chris Giarmo’s Personal Sweater Collection

Featuring:

Becca Blackwell

Jason Blaine*
David Gould

Jo Lampert*

Tina Satter
Richard Toth*
*Appear courtesy of Actors' Equity Association

Good Year For Hunters is a queer horror play about a mysteriously orphaned brother and sister who fall in love with a closeted husband and wife in a world of fractured time and secrets. Its creation was inspired by Tori Amos’ seminal 1992 album “Little Earthquakes,” an earnest and abstract document of a young woman’s struggle to find her voice under oppressive cultural, religious, and sexual circumstances, and the soundtrack of artistic team Chris Giarmo and Jess Barbagallo’s teenage years. Using a poor theatre aesthetic of minimalist design and physical acting, the Hunters cast creates a darkly comedic landscape of yearning turned nightmare. Good Year For Hunters is a looped reliving of traumatic loss in which memory rewrites history interminably, capturing the very contemporary problem of deferred adulthood.

"Erratic and elliptical, the play forms a loose love polygon among men who like boys, girls who like women, and bears who like girls…Rather than writing a funny play, a chilling play, a melancholy play, or an absurdist play, Barbagallo and Giarmo have frapped multiple genres."
-The Village Voice

"There is a certain tender sweetness in the portrayal of this web of dysfunction…The six-member company captures the aching longings of these desperate people."

-Backstage.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

July 4-7

Flying Snakes In 3D

Everywhere Theatre Group

Written & Directed by Leah Nanako Winkler & Teddy Nicholas

 

Production Staff:

Choreography Sara Pauley
Video/Sound Design Chase Voorhees
Set/Lighting Design Barbara Eldredge
Costume Design Sarah Snider

Stage Manager Alyson Fortner

Video Technical Asst Scott Fetterman

Featuring:

T. Ramon Campbell

T. J. Collins

Tricia Cramer

Kim Gainer*

Molly Gray
Eevin Hartsough*

Jen Kwok

Lindsay Mack

Sean Patrick McGowan
Jen Taher*

Peter Mills Weiss

Chris Tyler

*Appear courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association

 

Flying Snakes in 3-D is an epic fusion of sci-fi parody, the avant-garde, and brutally autobiographical elements, in which a young and broke theater company challenge themselves to the ultimate task in order to pack the houses: to successfully make a play that is better suited for film. What they come up with is “Flying Snakes in 3-D,”where mutant killer snakes are accidentally released from CIA-enlisted scientific headquarters under the setting of earth under attack, and violent, bloody chaos ensues. Will The Heroes be able to defeat the snakes? Will the theatre company be able to make their play succeed in the face of overwhelming financial, technical and emotional obstacles? Packed with dance, cheap special effects, and absolutely stunning video design, this tongue-in-cheek parody wildly entertains while daring to ask the question: If theater is a dying art, why are we still making it?


"A hilarious and unexpectedly touching story of why we make theatre and how to save the world from killer flying snakes... It’s a refreshingly original piece of theatre that is pretty damn funny... It examines and rages against the privileges offered by gender, race and class... Flying Snakes in 3D is just pretty freakin' fantastic."
-Theatre is easy

"Only Everywhere Theatre Group can successfully juxtapose the struggling artist message with a science fiction narrative about snakes...

There’s so much to like in this play: Fun quirky retro characters, bloody attacks, pontification, a cowboy, a baller, a (female!) ninja who reads minds, parody of trust fund babies, snakes flying over a NYC skyline, fancy explosions, and a snake ballet!"

-New York Theater Review

"It’s cheesy and upbeat, played out over what’s presented as a profound personal drama."

-Culture Bot

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

July 11-14

The Pilo Family Circus

Godlight Theatre Company

Based on the novel by Will Elliott

Adapted by Matt Pelfrey

Directed by Joe Tantalo

Production Staff:

Fight Choreography Rick Sordelet
Dramaturg/State ManagerChristina Hurtado Lighting Design Maruti Evans

Sound Design Ien DeNio


Featuring:

Emma Canalese

Chris Cipriano

Anthony Cumberbatch, Jr.

Lawrence Jansen

Adam Kee

Gregory Konow

Matthew Minor*

Ryan O’Callaghan

Nick Paglino

Sean Phillips

Michael Shimkin

Samantha Strelitz

*Appear courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association

"You have two days to pass your audition. You better pass it, feller. You're joining the circus. Ain't that the best news you ever got?”
The Pilo Family Circus is recruiting and whether he likes it or not, Jamie is auditioning. He never dreamed of running away to join the circus, but you just don't say no to a troupe of exuberantly sadistic clowns out headhunting. Darkly funny and gleefully macabre, Will Elliott's The Pilo Family Circus, adapted by Matt Pelfrey, follows Jamie's furious descent into the nightmare world of a centuries-old carnival where amid the acrobats, clowns, dwarves, freaks and fortune tellers, you may lose more than just your way. Jamie finds that his worst enemy is himself. When he applies the white face paint, he is transformed into JJ – the most vicious clown of them all. And JJ wants Jamie dead...

"This extraordinary company, which has perhaps the most consistent track record of producing excellent, thought-provoking, challenging fare with dazzling production values in spite of indie-level budgets."

-The Villager

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

July 18-21

Miss Lilly Gets Boned

Studio 42

Written by Bekah Brunstetter

Directed by David F. Chapman

Production Staff:

Producer Eileen Lalley

Scenic Design Caite Hevner

Light Design Gertjan Houben

Puppet Design/Choreography James Ortiz

Sound Design Jill BC Du Boff

Properties Design Sarah Dowling

Production Stage Manager Ryan Gohsman

Fight Choreographer Brian Belcinski

Featuring:

Brian Belcinski

Adam Blodgett

Jessica Dickey*

Sanam Erfani*

Aaron McDaniel

David Rosenblatt

Chris Thorn*

Liz Wisan*

*Appear courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association

Miss Lilly, a Sunday school teacher, has been waiting patiently for God to drop a man in her lap. When a new student – a young South African boy whose mother was killed by an elephant – disturbs the harmony of her classroom and his father disturbs the harmony of her heart, Miss Lilly is forced to re-examine her own sense of faith and self. Right or wrong, sinful or holy – a natural force is at work in Miss Lilly’s classroom where her hymns are accompanied by the rumble of angry elephants and her prayers are answered by a stranger to her god.

 

 

“You should look into what Studio 42 has cooking. It's DOWNRIGHT INSPIRATIONAL!”
-GOTHAM Magazine

"In its first half Bekah Brunstetter's sort-of-comedy actually feels like a sweetly
twisted send up of the [Hugh] Grant-model romcom. But there's more to 'Miss Lilly...'
than that. ... A witty, likeably bonkers little play!"

-Time Out London

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

July 25-28

The Apocalyptic Road Show With Your Hosts Gdjet And Lulu

Clancy Productions in association with The Occasional Cabaret

Written by John Clancy
Directed by Peter Clerke

Production Staff:

Music Composed Tim Brinkhurst

Set & Costume Design Ali Maclaurin
Technical Director Kevin McCallum
Production Manager Camilla O’Neill

Featuring:

Catherine Gillard

Nancy Walsh

 

The Apocalyptic Road Show, a contemporary, comic, profane cabaret celebrating the end of the world, is a transatlantic collaboration between The Occasional Cabaret (Edinburgh) and Clancy Productions (New York). Join your hosts Gdjet and Lulu and their mysterious musical companion as they guide you through the coming apocalypse and bid a fond farewell to the late, great, damned and doomed human race.
The Occasional Cabaret is the latest incarnation of Peter Clerke and Catherine Gillard of the renowned Scottish touring company benchtours.

"What's exciting about this fierce and ragged show is the way in which it tries to shake up theatrical form… timely, disturbing, and so well worked out in the best of Clancy's writing - that the show is impossible to resist, and it slices down to the hidden reality of the way we live now, in a way that makes the rest of our theatrical world seem pallid, and a little short of the courage it takes to face a terrible truth."
-Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

August 1-4

The Girl Of The Golden West

Rady&Bloom


Written & Directed by Jeremy Bloom

Adapted from the 1911 novel by David Belasco

Production Staff:
Music/Additional Words Catherine Brookman, Ellen O'Meara, and Joe White
Sound Design/Additional Music Lucas Segall

Set Design Brian Rady

Set Design Asst Andre Sguerra

Lighting Design Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew

Costume Design Kathleen Doyle

Costume Design Asst Ariel Pellman

Dramaturgy & Stage Manager Shannon Deep

Asst Director Dana O'Brien

Featuring:

Catherine Brookman

Tom Hennes

Starr Kwofie

Ellen O'Meara

Brian Rady

Lucas Segall

Joe White

Exploding onto the frontiers of uninhabited California, the only female in the entire Gold Rush town of Cloudy Mountain sets up her saloon. Mythologized in David Belasco's grandiose 1911 novel and canonized as one of the great spaghetti westerns - a play turned-novel-turned-Puccini-extravaganza - this modernized golden paradigm is a new music and soul-filled ode to the unexplored and untouched expanse of our nation’s forgotten periphery, and the baffling potential successes of what could’ve been.

"In those strange days, people coming from God knows where, joined forces in that far Western land, and, according to the rude custom of the camp, their very names were soon lost and unrecorded, and here they struggled, laughed, gambled, cursed, killed, loved and worked out their strange destinies in a manner incredible to us of to-day. Of one thing only are we sure—they lived!"
-David Belasco’s epigraph to The Girl of the Golden West

"Much like the pioneering characters in The Girl of the Golden West, the production pushes boundaries…Bloom and the rest of the cast and crew bring amazing energy, enthusiasm, and dedication to this wholly inventive production."
-The Drama League

"It blows the dust off an American classic while remaining true to the spirit of the original… Bloom establishes a detached, presentational style in the performances, giving his actors room to play freely and riff on their characters but keeping them in the same theatrical world."
-nytheatre.com

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