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July 7-10 Staying AfloatSoho Think Tank Written & Directed by Lenora Champagne Production Staff: Featuring: Sometime in the near future, two women and a polar bear find themselves trapped on a melting ice floe and strive to co-exist in a world of shrinking options. With birth, death, songs and movement. Developed with early support frome Voice & Vision, New Georges and Dixon Place. |
“Staying Afloat” parries the summer heat wave with the melancholy charm of a cooling drizzle… Lenora Champagne composes lovely speeches for her trio of actresses, and stages them in a pensive atmosphere that fits the subject matter… Though “Staying Afloat” is a play about grief-on the personal and global level-it warms your heart.” |
“It’s a meditation on displacement, on our attempts to control an ultimately uncontrollable environment, and our responsibilities to those who come after us… There is a real wisdom in this play, and immense imagination and stagecraft, none of which will surprise those familiar with this remarkable writer-director’s work.”
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July 14-17 Wanderlust: a history of walkingAdapted & Directed by Matthew Earnest Featuring: Nicole Perrone Pandora Robertson This "dance-theater investigation" concerns the knee joint of Lucy, a three-million year-old hominid, as well as religion, philosophy, landscape, urban policy, anatomy, allegory and heartbreak. |
“An extended meditation on human locomotion as it goes...It enables a delightful surprise ending.”
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July 21-24 HaterBug Company Translated & Directed by Samuel Buggeln From Moliere’s The Misanthrope Production Staff: Featuring: Lust. Betrayal. Air kisses. What happens when the Hater hates himself for faing in love? A speed-punk score with peculiar dance. A mise en scene for the glamorously debauched. An amphetamine fueled, post-postsimulacrum of the French classic. A comedy of manners for the rude. |
“A kind of post-modern spin on the court of Louis XIV, with the foppish courtiers become fashionistas and the social jockeying translated into a modern set of power plays... Hater is thoroughly enjoyable and its style goes a long way.”
“Elements of Buggeln’s script do perfectly hit that spot of productive resonance between the periods... Hater is thoroughly enjoyable and its style goes a long way.”
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July 28-31 Nurses in EnglandHalf Straddle Written & Directed by Tina Satter Music by Chris Giarmo Production Staff: Featuring: Matt Bogdanow on Drums Female head of surgery Dr. Shepherd has a broken down pick-up, a booze cruise fling that just re-surfaced and a nursing staff with attitude. Featuring soul-searing songs, cryptic medical-speak and the occasional Coors Light. Hearts are burial deep here. A hospital show re-configured as a live musical dramedy Half Straddle-style. |
"Nurses in New England is a fun, irreverent, and clever actress-driven Grey's Anatomy soap opera cabaret musical." -TheatreIsEasy.com
"Most successful is the way in which playwright Tina Satter manages to create a smart, comic mirror of the medical show." -nytheatre.com
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August 4-7 Mission DriftThe TEAM Production Staff: Featuring: A pioneering journey west and east across the USA in search of an unbiased portrait of American Capitalism, told through cowboy ballet, piano yowls and people with bank accounts. The western frontier: from Roy Rodgers to Siegfried & Roy. Created in the blazing fever of a Las Vegas June, with early development support from Almeida Theatre (London).
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August 11-14 Nostradamus Predicts the Death of SohoWritten & Directed by Robert Lyons Production Staff: Featuring: A burning taxicab. A blind troubadour. A new roommate. Is this the end of the world? Or the beginning of something much worse? A minor lapse of courage triggers a breakdown of epic proportions as a young woman struggles with the realities (and unrealities) of New York City. With songs. |
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