Eric's website - have you seen it?

HERE IT IS! 
THIS ONE TOO! 

THIS ONE! TOO!

ERIC BEAUZAY MAGIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ACRES OF CLAMS = ACRES OF AWESOME!!!!

A little recap having to do with our performance of ACRES OF CLAMS at Ars Nova:  It went swimmingly!  We were so happy, thrilled, titillated to present the work to a sold-out, enthusiastic crowd, who song along, swayed, and chanted to the music of WASHINGTON STATE!!! We had audience representing from Maple Valley, Vancouver, Bellingham and Ferndale, Moses Lake, Seattle, and Vancouver Island, so all in all a very Northwest evening, full of facts and fun and beer-swiggin'.

Pictures and Photos are so soon to follow.

Also, Also:  We have to say a TREMENDOUS thanks to the following people: ARS NOVA!!!! Concrete Temple Theatre and A.R.T./New York, Materials for the Arts, Samuel French, Inc., Richard Strugeon and Officina Design, Doug and Jill Marsh, Sherry and Scott Voss, Pacific Northwest Folklore Society, Frank DiMaiolo, Matt and Roberta Trask, Denali Beauzay, Kitt Lavoie, J. Michael DeAngelis and The Porch Room, Joy Autumn, Paulie and Alex Velasquez, Briar Winters, Aaron Kostisky, Nick Leavens and the Claque, Ada Rose Williams and the other Ada,  Charley Parden, Garrett Hodge, Emma Halpern, Drew Larimore, Arts in Bushwick and the Bushwick Starr, the BE Company Shoni Currier and Sean Bauer,  Adam Thompson, Seth Bauer, Josh Koller, The Zebros and Kara Christianson (from the Original Bushwish Starr ACRES OF CLAMS!!!), the University of Washington Photographic Archives, National History Day, The Whatcom County Old Settlers Association, and Foo the Cat.

We love you guys so much! and you should all expect HUGE presents postcards and HUGS comin' in the Mailio.

Former Miss Emerald City, speaks out about ACRES OF CLAMS!!!

Our dear loveliest friend Ada Rose Williams, former Miss Emerald City (Seattle) 2008, speaks out about the importance of attending ACRES OF CLAMS:

SO NOW THAT YOU HAVE THIS ENDORSEMENT, YOU MUST COME SEE THE SHOW!

TICKETS HERE!

AMY DOES AN INTERVIEW ABOUT ACRES OF CLAMS

Amy sat down with Ars Nova Theatre to do a short interview about the upcoming ACRES OF CLAMS!  Here's the video:

 

STUNNING!!!

THE WORD IS FINALLY OUT AND WE DON"T HAVE TO WALK AROUND THE CITY WITH OUR HANDS oVer our MOUTHS ANYMORE!!!!!!  ACRES OF CLAMS IS GOING TO FREAKIN' ANT FEST!!!  THAT'S HUGE!!!!

Here's our page on the Ant Fest site!  

Here's us with pioneer family members!

Here's my grandma with a shotgun!

DO YOU WANT TICKETS?!?!?!  INFORMATION ON THAT IN A WEEK.

In the meantime, we'll be posting about casting, photos of the creative process, and all that yummy stuff.

THE GREAT DAWSON NICHOLS PERFORMS VITUAL SOLITAIRE!

We're helping an old Seatttle buddies of ours remount a sololy-performed, technology-infused, murder mystery thriller for NYC fringe and there's no doubt that it's going to be something excited!  Here's the info:

Seattle-based playwright and performer Dawson Nichols brings his internationally celebrated solo show VIRTUAL SOLITAIRE to the 15th Annual New York Fringe Festival. VIRTUAL SOLITAIRE is a play-for-one-person about Nathan, a man lost in a full-immersion virtual entertainment. The game is a murder-mystery, and as Nathan tries to find his way out he begins to realize that this might be more than a game - someone might be intentionally keeping him online.

He surfs through more than two dozen characters in the entertainment, searching for the shifting line between VR (virtual reality) and RL (real life). And perhaps this is the mystery of the murder-mystery. And if that's true, perhaps the murder is his own. See a preview of the play at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csu81awsN-g.

VIRTUAL SOLITAIRE was named Best Play at both the Saskatoon Fringe Festival and the Edmonton Fringe Festival, and has also been seen all over Australia and the Pacific Northwest. This will be its New York première.

Dawson Nichols has written more than two dozen original plays and adaptations, including Escher's Hands, which was nominated for the National New Play Award of the American Theatre Critics Association. He is best known for his solo works which have toured extensively throughout North America and abroad. Among his full-length plays-for-one-person are I Might Be Edgar Allan Poe, which is also playing at the 2011 FringeNYC, Three Descents of Darwin, Jekyll, Stop Start, and Meet Brian Boomer. Dawson has received commissions from Seattle Children's Theatre, ACT Theatre, and Aha! Theatre. He has also received a fellowship from Artist Trust, a grant from the King County Arts Commission, and in 1997 he was nominated for the Elizabeth Osborne Emerging Playwright Award.

VIRTUAL SOLITAIRE will run for five performances only: WED 8/17 @ 7:00pm; SAT 8/20 @ 2:00pm;TUE 8/23 @ 2:30pm; THUR 8/25 @ 4:00pm; FRI 8/26 @ 8:00pm. All performances will be at The Players Theater at 115 MacDougal Street. Tickets are $15 in advance at fringenyc.org or by calling 866-468-7619. $18 at the door.



Read more: http://offoffbroadway.broadwayworld.com/article/VIRTUAL-SOLITAIRE-Plays-FringeNYC-Starting-817-20110803#ixzz1UG5HcbqA

HAVE YOU SEEN ERIC'S WEBSITE????

There've been a few updates, and it's pretty fancy(er).  Getting there:

LA VOIX HUMAINE at PS 122!

Lending our support...

To the recently-founded SCHOOL OF MAKING THINKING!  They are seeking some monetary assistance, and even a buck gets you a whole damn song!

New News.

Two big things, buddies:

1) UNTITLED TRAVELOGUE PROJECT is being revised and reworked. From basic footage in Decemeber, we've decided to expand the project into a web-based performance work...more on this coming in Summer 2011.


2) A NEW SHOW!!!!!!! 

ACRES OF CLAMS: A TOUR THROUGH THE COMPLEX, DAMP, and POIGNANT HISTORY OF WASHINGTON STATE will be playing at Bushwick Starr as part of Arts in Bushwick SITEfest 2011!  It's a one night only event: March 6, at 5:45pm.  More details (press release) up soon!

BABYSKINGLOVE's THE DINNER FAMINE

Go see this show by our friends BabySkinGlove:

 

It's a fantastic show; an amazing time; a delight; a very fun evening!

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.