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Magnificent Opening Night

Magnificent Opening Night

To use the adjective of our playwright/director, our most talented actress was luminous last night. We also received today some kind words and lurid expectations of What She Knew from the impresario extraordinaire himself, Trav S. D., in the current issue of  The Villager. I am luridly expectant at the prospect of seeing “What She Knew” — playwright and critic George Hunka’s retelling of “Oedipus Rex” from Jocasta’s point of view. In this production, the “First of the Red Hot…

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Reseating Perspective

Reseating Perspective

It’s been my privilege to work with playwright/director George Hunka, performer Gabriele Schafer, and the other designers on theatre minima’s debut production of What She Knew. George, Gabriele and I had an especially rewarding collaboration.  We began working on it together in a reading back in February.  I am quite proud of my contribution to the nuanced, commanding performance and production of a vital theatre text. The mise en scene suggested in the script is minimal: White cyclorama, without entrance…

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Half-price Tickets for Outside Inn

Half-price Tickets for Outside Inn

Sorry to all readers. Serious personal matters have kept me from blogging and many other things in my life, including our theatre’s production at 59E59 Theaters of Outside Inn. The whole ensemble is proud of their work on the show and audiences are all enjoying it. It’s been up and running for a week now and reviews are starting to come in. Readers of Rat Sass and friends can get half-price tickets with the four letter promotional code RATS.  Come…

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Bloggers’ Nights for Outside Inn

Bloggers’ Nights for Outside Inn

Any blogger who has ever braved comment here at Rat Sass is welcome to a press comp to International Culture Lab’s Off-Broadway production of Outside Inn on any night October 2 through October 5. Just email telling me the night you wish to attend.

Avant Yarde Event Monday Evening

Avant Yarde Event Monday Evening

Eat, meet, and greet New work by TravSD and Katherine Adamenko 6pm-9pm: Potluck Barbecue and Performance Monday, August 25 The Avant Yarde 214 Dean Street (Between Nevins and Bond) Brooklyn Performance/reading will be approximately 40 minutes long. FREE admission with your favorite barbecue item or prepared dish to share. Please RSVP to Gabriele as seating is limited. ****************************** Sea / Herself: The (De)volution of a Beauty Queen SEA / HERSELF dances down feminine archetypes to unmask the authentic self. Hidden…

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She and the Empty Living Room

She and the Empty Living Room

My blogging will continue to be intermittent now that our October production approaches. We’ll be headed up north to Ithaca for rehearsals in September. Before we leave we will host one more Avant Yarde event, so stay tuned here for that announcement shortly. Markus drove Carolina to JFK Monday night, so she is back in Argentina now. She is gone and present at the same time. I am meditating on her performance with Markus in She and the Empty Living…

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Avant Yarde Event Monday Night

Avant Yarde Event Monday Night

Please join us for the next Avant Yarde event featuring a short play with actors who have lived and worked with our good friends from the South, the nomadic Argentine theatre group Willaldea. She, and the Empty Living Room A chamber play in one-act. An exploration of (anti)communication, disobedient tongues, a missing left foot, a dance, a relationship, a poem, or a broken heart. She and the Empty Living Room is a play in translation (literally) about the act of…

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Avant Yarde Opening Thursday Night

Avant Yarde Opening Thursday Night

NYC friends, please stop by to say hi and for a bubbly toast to Charles. The Avant Yarde is located in a four-story private artists’ residence in the landmarked area of Brownstone Brooklyn. The site hosts artist salons, art potlatches, and commissions and installs temporary sculptures throughout the year. Avant Yarde proposes an alternative to the traditional performance and gallery space, attempting to position the exchange and experience of art outside the confines of the market while also examining conventional…

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Shift Happens

Shift Happens

Visit the Wicked Wiki of the West behind this YouTube video and find more resources including history of presentation, suggestions for usage, and links to downloadable versions. From text of Did You Know? 2.0 Did you know? In the next 8 seconds . . . 34 babies will be born. Name this country . . . Richest in the world Largest military Center of world business and finance Strongest education system Currency the world standard of value Highest standard of…

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Guillermo Gómez-Peña in New York

Guillermo Gómez-Peña in New York

Somewhat under the radar, internationally acclaimed brujo-poeta, theorist, and performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña returns to New York for two evenings. The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics and el Museo del Barrio present two evenings featuring Guillermo Gómez-Peña. After more than four years away from New York, Gómez-Peña brings back his unique style of performance-activism and “theatricalizations of postcolonial theory.” In his books, as in his solo shows, he pushes the boundaries still further, exploring what’s left for artists to…

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Launch Party for New York Theater Review 2008

Launch Party for New York Theater Review 2008

New York Theater Review 2008 Officially Greets the World Tonight Friday, April 11 at Drama Book Shop 250 W. 40th St. Manhattan 6-8pm Editor Brook Stowe will be reading from the bloggers interview section of the journal in-between performance excerpts from the plays. The NYC bloggers interviewed are Blindsquirrel Bloggings (aka Johnna Adams), Obscene Jester, sharkskin girl and Tweed (aka T. Nikki Cesare & Steve Luber), The Playgoer (aka Garrett Eisler), Jason Grote (aka Jason Grote), and your friend Rat…

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