Check out the great reviews: Drum of the Waves of Horikawa

The Theatre of a Two-headed Calf explores the 18th-century Chikamatsu play Drum of the Waves of Horikawa. 

Loud, violent, transgressive and fueled by radical politics, both Kabuki and 1970s punk rock represented unforgiving performance movements that captured the stories of social discord.  Combining live music performed by two drummers, a keyboardist and a bass player with traditional elements of Japanese performance, the show reinterprets this 18th Century classic that teems with lying, cheating, drinking and assassination. 

Also developed in a HARP Residency, Drum is directed by Brooke O’Harra and composed by Brendan Connelly.

This performance is a part of Turning Japanese, a city-wide celebration commemorating Japan Society’s Centennial. 

Listen to more audio clips on The Theatre of a Two-headed Calf's Resident Artist page: Drum of the Waves of Horikawa - The Theatre of a Two-headed Calf

Drum of the Waves of Horikawa is registered at the New York Innovative Theatre Awards website, http://www.nyitawards.com.  Click to vote!

$18 for a single ticket, $15 when buying more than one!


Adapted from Lewis Carroll by Gretchen Van Lente and Drama of Works; directed and designed by Gretchen Van Lente.

curiouser & curiouser was written and adapted using text from Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, Dodgson’s diary entries and Alice Liddell’s memoirs. The piece surrounds Lewis Carroll, Dodgson’s alter ego, who investigates what could have possibly gone so wrong between Alice and Dodgson to destroy the very friendship that created him. The Alice puppet plays chess with tables in outrageous hats, is scolded by white rabbits made from handkerchiefs and takes boat rides with playing cards. Alice Liddell is represented by a sweet and disjointed doll-style puppet made from doll parts. All other characters come to life through toys, objects and furniture, and the occasional piece of cheese. Drama of Works uses puppetry, original music and songs, object theatre and physical theatre to create the landscape of curiouser & curiouser.

Adapted from Lewis Carroll by Gretchen Van Lente and Drama of Works; directed and designed by Gretchen Van Lente; music composed by Jonathan Portera; lights by Jeanette Yew; costume assistance by Vita Mechachonis; set assistance by Markus Maurette; featuring Amy Carrigan, Talaura Harms*, Adam Sullivan, Ben Sulzbach & Meghan Williams.

There will be a special Q&A after opening night (9/19) with the director, cast and the Lewis Carroll Society of North America's president Andrew Sellon.

Drama of Works, New York's tightly organized satirists (In Pittsburgh), are known for their innovative works "high on fantastic production value" (Village Voice) that cross the line between actors and puppeteers. "Whatever it is supposed to be, it isn't boring" (Puppetmaster). Led by Artistic Director Gretchen Van Lente (also president of UNIMA-USA), they have performed locally and abroad: around New York City plus all over Pennsylvania and New England, and over six international festivals to date with their unique brand of theatre: gaining members, fans and supporters along the way. "This company will be around for a number of years to come; if you go see them now, you'll be able to say you knew about them before everybody did."

www.dramaofworks.com

Read the great reviews!: The Young Ladies Of

"Taylor Mac seduces you, breaks your heart, patches it back up again,  and sews sequins along the scars." -- The Irish Times

"All of [Mac's] plays are self-revealing, but The Young Ladies Of may well be his most personal... rarely has someone wearing so much make-up appeared so naked." -- The Village Voice (Read the whole article...)

"With his unique blend of bleak humor, personal revelation, political engagement, folk-inflected music, and astonishingly elaborate, gender-twisting, gorgeous grotesque costumes, Mac has emerged as an essential figure in the downtown performance scene." -- Time Out New York (Read the interview with Taylor...)

HERE is pleased to present the world premiere of The Young Ladies Of, written and performed by Taylor Mac. 

Stationed in Vietnam in 1968, Lt. Robert Bowyer placed an advertisement asking women ages 19-26 to write him.  He was flooded with letters from hundreds of young ladies responding to his ad.  Juxtaposing images of Lt. Bowyer in Vietnam with Mac’s own unique gender-bending aesthetic, Mac uses the letters, original text and songs to bridge the gap between perceptions of masculinity and femininity, past and present, and red and blue states.

The Young Ladies Of... is registered at the New York Innovative Theatre Awards website, http://www.nyitawards.com. Click to vote!

Join us for a talkback after the performance on Thursday, Oct. 11th!

On double-decker buses, on boats, and on foot, I rehearsed this show for seven years. I was one of New York's top tour guides -- on top of the bus. Now, accompanied by a spectacular animated slideshow, I'm telling the amazing story of New York City one last time -- in a nice comfortable theatre.

Written and performed by Noah Diamond
Directed by Amanda Sisk

 

Click here to watch a promotional video!

More information: noahdiamond.com/manhattan

$18 for a single ticket, $15 when buying more than one!

Various NYC puppet slam artists.

The last performance of the festival will be a hoot! Crazy puppet artists from all over the city will come together to put up the most insane production of Alice ever staged. Each artist has been assigned a chapter from the book and can do with that chapter whatever they want. They have no idea what the rest are doing and they shouldn't care. Then, we perform the pieces back to back in order of the story and see what happens!

Artists on board already include The Josh & Tamra Show, Howie Leifer, David Michael Friend, Evan Laurence, the Puppet State Players and Claire Beaudreault, with many more to come…

www.dramaofworks.com/alice

Devised and performed by Performance Lab 115

conceived and directed by Meiyin Wang

Performance Lab 115 teams up with director Meiyin Wang for a new work in progress that investigates the human need for contact packaged in the metaphor of the USPS Mail Recovery Centers: two massive warehouses of misdirected mail. Part theatre, part dance, part sound laboratory, the result is a matrixed theatrical narrative revolving around the thousands of messages in our lives that never reach their intended recipients.

featuring Jeff Clarke, Rebecca Lingafelter, Rachel Jablin, Andrew Z Kelsey & Elena Mulroney

sound and live performance by Mark Valadez

set by Shane LeClair

dramaturgy by Sylvia Bofill

producing consultant Karen Grenke / Cagey Productions

Benefit performance on October 14th  Tickets are $25.

photo credit: Meiyin Wang

MORE INFO: www.performancelab115.org
 

Works In Progress showings are FREE!
No reservations required!  Just come!

Excerpts will be presented from:

(RUS)H - 10 minutes
written by James Scruggs
directed by Kristin Marting
Performed by James Ryan Caldwell and Luis Vega

837 Venice Boulevard - Faye Driscoll - 20 minutes
Performed by Faye Driscoll and Nikki Zialcita
Music by Romy Hoffman
Video by Faye Driscoll and Hedia Maron

Miranda 5X - Kamala Sankaram - 7 minutes
Performed by:
Kamala Sankaram - soprano
Drew Fleming - electric guitar
Joe Keady - tuba
Adam Levine - trumpet
Pat Muchmore - cello
Jessie Nelson - violin

365 Days / 365 Plays - Week 50

Final performance:  November 12 at The Public Theater, at 7pm

The play cycle by Suzan-Lori Parks

On November 13, 2002, SUZAN-LORI PARKS got an idea to write a play a day for a year. She began that very day, finishing one year later. The resulting play cycle, called 365 Days / 365 Plays, is a daily meditation on an artistic life. Some plays are very short, less than a page. Others last forever.

HERE's Resident Artists will stage Week 50 of the plays as part of the year-long festival, coordinated by NYC's Public Theater.  HERE champions risk taking and innovative hybrid work through supporting artists' independence within an interdependent community.  For 365, our artists will produce site specific installations and performances throughout our facility (sidewalk, bathrooms, hallways and café) providing a range of experiences for discovery in any place but a theatre:

Inflation -  Lenora Champagne, outside on the street

Salty -  Stephanie Fleischmann, video installation in the main hallway

Bee - Matthew Tennie, café

Play Here Please - Christina Campanella, sound installation in restrooms

First Family - Jeff Mousseau & Christina Campanella, sound installation in restrooms

The Yard - Daniella Topol, outside on the street

The Monster - The South Wing, video installation

Action in Inaction - Kamala Sankaram, video projected in café

Inaction in Action - The South Wing, location TBD

The 365 performances will be from 6:30-7pm, then again from 8-8:30pm from Oct. 24-27, with performances at 1:30 & 3:30pm on Oct. 28, preceeding HERE's regular programming.  Performances are free, no reservations required. Inquiries may be directed to noah@here.org.

SUZAN-LORI PARKS is a playwright, screenwriter and novelist whose plays include Topdog / Underdog, Fucking A, Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom, The America Play, Venus, The Death Of The Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, and In The Blood, among others. In 2002, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Topdog / Underdog.

Ex.Pgirl, a physical theatre company currently in residence at HERE Arts Center, will be premiering their latest piece, 10 Plates, during the third week in October.

10 Plates is a multicultural journey that traverses the intersections among urban myths, storytelling and food.  In their style of hysterical physical theatre, Ex. Pgirl treads the line between danger and humor, revealing the ridiculous, disturbing and heartbreaking aspects of everyday fears through the perspectives of five female performers.

 

MORE INFO: www.expgirl.org 

 

Conceived, written, and co-directed by:
Bertie Ferdman and Suzi Takahashi

Developed and created in collaboration with:
Kiyoko Kashiwagi, Soomi Kim, Valerie Issembert

Performers: Suzi Takahashi, Bertie Ferdman, Kiyoko Kiwagashi,
Valerie Issembert and Soomi Kim

Special appearance: Luke Strandquist

Video: Julien Jourdes

Dramaturgy: Mallory Catlett

Lighting Design: Ayumu "Poe" Saegusa

photo credit: Sacha Lecca

Adapted by Rob Handel

Directed by Alice Reagan

Aristophanes explains once and for all how anchovies start wars, why leeks sharpen senate debates, and how rabbit stew can improve the electoral vote. Part of Target Margin Theater’s Aristophanic Laboratory, featuring twelve distinct views of Aristophanes’ masterful body of work in a wide-range of events and performances.

Dramaturgy by Ramona Thomasius 

www.targetmargin.org