IN/OUT Fest Schedule Set!

YES!  We are up on the website--The performance is taking place Friday, the 17th at 7pm.  Also on the docket, some damn AMAZING artists, including:

Jeff Thompson and Angeles Cossio	Smyth (Florida)
Island Dweller (Toronto)	Peter Kirn (NYC)
	Philip White
Tim Feeney, Ernst Karel, Kevin Ernste, and Jed Speare
Rosa Menkman	Protofuse (France)
Ostracon	makingthenoise (Boston)

Really good people.  Incredible, Incredible digi-artists! I mean, look at this awesomeness:


CV Gate Control - Drum Triggers - In/Out Fest 2010 from Jred Smyth on Vimeo.

OPEN REHEARSAL TOMORROW

So in preparation for the exciting In/Out Festival (that’s Digital Performance!) we’ve been script writing, talking, re-working, script writing re-working, figuring out what we all want it to mean, if anything. Eric and I have settled on playing with Callwave, which is a “visual voicemail” provider, and I guess that just means that it emails you when someone calls, so you’ve a punctuated point of reference. However, when you register with Callwave, you also get a ‘phone page’ which give you the ability to text out to a list on contacts. For our purposes, the interface is something incredible convenient, as the contact and text boxes are right next to each other, meaning that we really can function like cut-and-paste D.J.s.

Tomorrow, the 21st, we’ll be holding an open rehearsal in the backyard of the Goddamn Cobras Annex, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. It’s my (Amy’s) birthday mid-next week, so the version of the play presented here will be nothing like what’s up at In/Out: more like a party game involving sparklers and Barbies. Expect Photos and Videos up soon.

While we rehearse and get ready post, perhaps consider donating to In/Out?

Workin' with Jason Gray Platt

Hey something's in the works with this guy.  Over the next few days/weeks will be workshoppin' some shorts as mini-experiments, just to see where we can go. 

We will be at SPACE ON WHITE.  Though our process isn't open this time around, but we should be plotting performances soon.

Featuring the work of some Sister Sylvester members.... aka cool kids.

SISTER SLYVESTER's PLAY AMERICA.

We'd like to do our part to give a high five to our creative friends with Sister Sylvester, whose well-titled PLAY AMERICA is going to be running in an old Catholic Convent in Greenpoint, Brooklyn very soon.

In a town full of Fringe fare and summer fest, don't you want to go to a show that encourages you to drink and dance?

MONDAY NIGHT SPECIAL.

Coyote Pursues from Vanessa Carr on Vimeo.

Again, St. Ann's brings us some lovely puppets... kind of awesome, this one.

IN/OUT on Facebook.

The IN/OUT Festival is now on Facebook.  If you do that sort of thing, you should like this group (awesome, they are!)

VIVE CONCRETE TEMPLE!

Our amazing puppet-theatre creatin' friends at Concrete Temple Theatre are remounting one of the most visually stunning shows, early in September, at the Secret Theatre, Long Island City.  Go see this (all info below) and then go see our hot In/Out Festival Presentation the following week.  Totally different pieces on a similar topic: technology versus the imagination:

Concrete Temple Theatre

presents

Bird Machine

Limited Engagement!

OPENS Thursday, September 9th at 7PM

Closes Saturday, September 11^th.

PERFORMANCES

Thursday, September 9^th;

Friday, September 10^th, 

Saturday, September 11^th

at 7 PM & 9 PM

at The Secret Theatre, 44-02 23^rd Street, #104, Long Island City, NY

New York-based multi-disciplinary theatre ensemble Concrete Temple Theatre proudly presents its multimedia, puppetry-driven allegory: Bird Machine. Developed through workshops and support from The Jerome Foundation, The Jim Henson Foundation, St. Ann’s Puppet Lab, Workspace for Choreographers, Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science & Technology Project Commission, DCA, NYSCA, and chashama, this critically-acclaimed encore presentation will be staged as a limited 6-show run in early September.

Using a visceral mixture of object art, choreography, and puppets -- from the creation of the play's whimsical environment/landscape, to enchanting rod puppets birds, to imaginative shadow sequences and projections -- Bird Machine is a play about technology, a contemporary fable that explores the desire to live beyond human limitations. Part one reveals: Leo, the dreamer, obsessed with flying; Vince, the realist, trying to control his world through miniaturization; and their Emperor, who destroys Leo and his flying machine, out of fear that others will use the technology to destroy the city walls.  In part two, Vince vindicates Leo’s murder by turning his miniature garden into a larger-than-life garden, to lure and trap the Emperor. 

Audiences of Bird Machine will experience two distinctive worlds and technologies. The beginning of piece depicts a world that is pastoral, with mechanics that are primitive and simple: a bird flaps across stage then soars overhead.  As Vince dreams, his desk transforms into the city of the Emperor and the People.  Part two is a puppet-driven environment--however, projections, shadows and multimedia are used to introduce the invasion of contemporary technology in Vince and Leo’s world. 

Bird Machine is a co-creation of veteran theatre creators and Concrete Temple co-heads Renee Philippi and Carlo Adinolfi. Carlo Adinolfi designs sets & puppets; Renee Philippi directs. David Pinkard is composer and sound designer for the through-composed piece. Renée Molina designs lights. Casey McLain is stage manager. Cast includes: Carlo Adinolfi, Brian Carson, Ayako Dean, Christopher Hurt**, Sook Kim, Zdenko Slobodnik, and Stacey Weingarten.

Bird Machine runs for a strictly limited engagement, opening Thursday, September 9th at 7 PM and closing Saturday, September 11th. PERFORMANCES are Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 7 PM & 9 PM, at The Secret Theatre, 44-02 23^rd Street, #104, Long Island City, NY.  The show is appropriate for all ages. Tickets are $18; $12 for students w/valid id. Purchase tix online: http://www.secrettheatre.com or at box office.  For info:  www.ConcreteTempleTheatre.com, 212/598-9135. Closest subways: 7 to 45^th Rd/Courthouse or E,V, & G to 23^rd St./Ely.  Close to N, W, & R trains at Queensboro Plaza.

**Appearing Courtesy of Actors’ Equity.