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Theater Done Differently: New Works Series From Emerging Artists Theatre (EAT)
THEATER DONE DIFFERENTLY: Storytelling, Dance & 2-Person Pieces
Spring 2014
March 10th through 30th
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IMPORTANT BOOKING INFORMATION: Each title in the series has only one performance, one date, one time, so please take special note of the details for the show you've chosen and book accordingly. Then check the listings for our other series on offer during this festival. Visit www.emergingartiststheatre.org for more information.
All tickets are $10
All performances at:
TADA! Theater
15 West 28th St, 2nd floor
Between Broadway and 5th Avenue
Curators: Paul Adams, Derek Jamison, Scott Klavan, Jessica Phillips Lorenz, Scott Raker, Vanessa Shealy Younger
Emerging Artists returns with their one-of-a-kind festival. Visit the theater any evening during this three-week event, and you'll find yourself transported in a number of surprising ways: by a single performer embodying a whole host of characters; by a more experimental theater piece "done differently" that challenges and delights; by a cozy two-person show exploring relationships; or perhaps by a bouncy new musical that will have you humming. Emerging Artists has always been about new works, new talents, new voices. That's never been more evident than now.
THE SHOWS
Saturday, March 15 at 7 pm
"MISTRESS OF THE HOUR"
Written, Directed and Choreographed by Suzana Stankovic
Performed by Suzana Stankovic and Vincent Louis Marra
Original Music by Abel Korzeniowski
"Abdication" from the motion picture soundtrack "W.E."
"Ne Me Quitte Pas" by Jacques Brel
Lyrics from the poetry of Emily Dickinson
Sound Design by Andy Altmann
Costumes by Suzana Stankovic
Photography by Jesse Untracht-Oakner
The mistress will see you now... turn the key and step inside.
sharing the bill with
"SOULS ON FIRE"
Written and Performed by Susan Laubach
Directed by Gretchen Cryer
Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, magic, and power in it.
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Saturday, March 15 at 9 pm
"THE MERMAID PROJECT"
Written by Joseph T. Beck
Directed by Christopher Carter Sanderson
Music by Chelsea LeSage
Lyrics by Joseph T. Beck, et al
Choreography and Musical Direction by Christopher Carter Sanderson
Performed by Chelsea LeSage
Working for the Mouse as a Mermaid Princess, a young woman experiences a complex initiation into matters Mermaid. Musical, frustrating, blessed, political, watery, wonderful and weird, our Mermaid princess-for-hire has a few things to say and sing about it from a uniquely underwater perspective. An NC-17 commentary and collage on coming of age wearing a sequined fin.
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Tuesday, March 18 at 7 pm
"MOLLIE AND HARRY"
Written and Directed by Tom Block
Choices made out of fear can haunt a lifetime. "Mollie and Harry" explores love lost and those last moments of a human lifespan as the embers of awareness slowly fade out.
sharing the bill with
"PIONEER LOVING"
Written and Performed by Andrea Alton and Allen Warnock
Directed by Paul Adams
Martha McGillicutty and Charles Buttley share one night of uncensored lust, body odors, road kill, and hot tea.
sharing the bill with
"FRANK 'N NINA"
Written and Performed by Nina Deacon and Frank Matejcek
Directed and Choreographed by Nancy Whyte
Inspired by comedy teams such as Lucy and Desi, and George Burns and Gracie Allen, this is an old-school vaudeville comedy act with modern humor. Includes a tango, the classic song "On the Street Where She Lives," a yoga class, and a possible surprise. Expect much heart and a lot of laughs.
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Thursday, March 20 at 7 pm
"RON THE CONTORTIONIST"
Written by Susan Merson
Directed by Melissa Atteberry
Performed by Susan Merson and Scott Sowers
Artwork by Deryl Day
Ron, a former trapeze artist, and Dana, a recent widow, try out the tightrope of connecting on a first date that seems to include more than just themselves. This piece is an excerpt from "Damn Everything But the Circus," a triptych of love under the big top.
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Friday, March 21 at 7 pm
"EVERYDAY EDNA MAE"
Written by Robin Rice Lichtig
Directed by Bricken Sparacino
Edna Mae has an obsession with losing weight and a desire to create that has been shuttled aside in order to clip her husband's toenails and bake apple pies. She's just an everyday gal or is she?
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Saturday, March 22 at 9 pm
"BEHIND THE WALL AN AUTISM PIECE"
Written by Joyce Laoagan
Directed, Performed and Choreographed by Joyce Laoagan and Andy Miyamotto
Music by Joyce Laoagan, Bayanihan Group, Japanese Traditional Music Ensemble
Lyrics and Musical Direction by Joyce Laoagan
Lighting and Set Design by Andy Miyamotto and Joyce Laoagan
Japanese Languages by Andy Miyamotto
Photography by Naty Yandyganova
A music and movement piece depicting the journey of one person as they strive for understanding and acceptance of a loved one with medium to severe autism. Incorporating Tribal Filipino and National Japanese Traditional Music, martial arts movements and dance, this piece will surely touch the hearts and souls of those who can relate, and bring understanding to those who are not aware.
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Sunday, March 23 at 5 pm
"49 YEARS"
Written and Directed by Jeffrey L. Hollman
Two Actors on a bare stage take us through the ups and downs of 49 years of a father-son relationship.
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Monday, March 24 at 9 pm
"THE RITUAL"
Written, Directed and Performed by Jordan Chlapecka and Katelyn Maggi
"The Ritual" started as a way to keep our friendship together. A way for us to stay connected, laugh about the absurdity of language, consider our careers, and discuss the performative (whatever that means). Finding meaning and mysticism over coffee and eggs, these are excerpts from our conversations over one 6-month period.
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Tuesday, March 25 at 7 pm
"DUMPED"
Written by Julie A. Feltman
Directed by Amanda Nicastro
Kate and Devin share an intense affection for one another even after eight years of separation. Set in Devin's bedroom, "Dumped" is a sexy play about broken lovers who won't let each other go.
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Tuesday, March 25 at 9 pm
"THROUGH THE GLADE"
Written by Cali Elizabeth Moore and Rachel Tuggle Whorton
Directed by Rachel Tuggle Whorton
A small community theatre group in the South tries to avoid bankruptcy by writing their own version of "Into the Woods," using under-appreciated storybook characters and music from the public domain. Somewhat satirical, occasionally absurd, and always hilarious, "Through the Glade" is a semi-autobiographical mockery of every low-budget theatre experience you wish you'd never had.
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Wednesday, March 26 at 9 pm
"VIRUS ATTACKS HEART"
Written by Shannon Murdoch
Directed by Bailey Jordan
Chopping and cutting through time and space, "Virus Attacks Heart" is a story about sex between strangers that becomes a story about love between lovers. When it ultimately falls apart in ways neither one of them see coming, this one moment lived to its fullest may be just enough to sustain them.
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Thursday, March 27 at 7 pm
"BETES: DIABETES WITHOUT THE 'DIE'"
Written by Marina Tsaplina, Deborah Kaufmann
Directed by Deborah Kaufmann
Performed by Marina Tsaplina
Additional Credit to Ceili Clemens, Karen Kandel
Drop your political correctness, laugh* and weep as a puppet embodiment of diabetes** experiences and creates existential havoc.
* We take laughter very seriously.
** If you have diabetes, or know someone who has, come to the show. If you don't have diabetes, but have ever suffered, come to the show. We will tickle it out of you.
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Thursday, March 27 at 9 pm
"KEVIN AND ANGELA"
Written by Matt Heftler
Directed by Burak Tatar
Performed by Timothy Laurel Harrison and Zach Wegner
The play is inspired by a true story of a young police detective and his wife. Their lives change forever after he confesses to her what he has witnessed at his job.
sharing the bill with
"NOT NOBODY. YESBODY"
Directed, Performed and Choreographed by Carson Reiners
Boxed in with memories we carry around. We walk away, but turn around. We're still not there. Yet. A mere piece of paper or are we all as fated as our dear Sisyphus?
sharing the bill with
"TRAKTORFABRIK"
Written and Directed by Noémi Schlosser
Inspired by the work and life of Vasily Grossman and the diaries of civilians and soldiers. With thanks to Michelle Slonim, ROI-community and the European Union. A dark tragi-comedy, based on real facts, about people stuck in a bunker during an everlasting war, resulting in a succession of absurd and poetic situations... 'til the oxygen runs out.
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Friday, March 28 at 7 pm
"TRY"
Written by Allison Plamondon
Directed by Eric Rasmussen
Choreographed by Allison Plamondon in collaboration with the dancers
A man and a woman struggle for intimacy while the world's news affects what it means to... try.
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Saturday, March 29 at 7 pm
"HAPPY ANNIVERSARY"
Written by Inna Tsyrlin
Directed by Burak Tatar
Sam and Tim have broken up, and this painful realization has made both of them bitter. Tim dismisses Sam's plea to keep an anniversary gift, and the two have a final stand-off where they acknowledge that their failure to communicate what they wanted from each other has led to resentment, creating a distance they didn't know how to breach.
sharing the bill with
"UNTITLED, OR, THIS IS ABOUT A BOY-GIRL THING"
Written, Choreographed and Performed by skyler volpe
Music by Gary Clark Jr. and The Shirelles
skyler volpe returns to the New Works Series with another piece celebrating women who will fight you.
sharing the bill with
"THE DARK PLACE"
Written and Performed by Shara Ashley Zeiger
Directed by Reginald L. Douglas
A short one-woman piece that started out as a bit of slam poetry, sat on a shelf for a long time, was taken out every once in awhile, reworked, and now for the first time is explored on stage. A dark fairy tale about the creation of the concept of religion and the harsh truths that result from defining the world around us.
sharing the bill with
"CONNECTIONS"
Written and Choreographed by Jonathan Breton
Directed and Performed by Yasmine Mahmoudi and Jonathan Breton
When life's turbulence takes you up and down, the only thing left is memories to hold onto or to be haunted by.
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LocationTADA! Theater
15 W 28th St
New York, NY, NY 10001
United States
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