WE HAVE A LOVELY POSTCARD!!!

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.

Up Next...

A few things on the roster in the future:

1) Eric designs a show for the Planet Connections Fest: OUT OF ASKJA by Drew Larimore.
2) ARM works with the Goddamn Cobra's Theatre Wing BOOMSLANG to develop an original work for Northside Open Studios!  Stay Tuned.
3) ARM has also signed on as Dramaturg for Concrete Temple Theatre's BYSTANDER project, an adaptation of the noted Children's Novel of the Same Title!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And lastly:

4) ARM's embarks on her QUILTED PLAYS, which is both a study in script-formatting (THRILLING!) and a fine art/crafting project.  But more on that in the next few days...

UNTITLED TRAVELOGUE PROJECT.

We're headed to Washington, Oregon, and California December 22-January 1st to a) see family and friends, b) connect with some artist in that regions regarding future projects and c) make some experimental theatre.  

Enter our untitled travelogue project: a theatre/film experiment in remote location (hidden spaces) and text.  The project will following a set 2 person scene, 2 minute scene, that is played out over a series of 15 remote locations down the West Coast.  Each showing will feature a constant player (Amy) and an unknown, who is new the play, and thus experiencing the work as both a participant and a spectator.

Our remote locations, which are currently carefully hunted and curated by Eric,  are designed to amplify the themes of the 2 minute text: islotation, alienation, and environment.  

The project is still very much in infant stages, and of course, we are wild about the challenges: weather, cold, located our players, transpertaions, and creating vast theatrical space on a dime (we are hoping the words do a lot.  Of course, every scene and 'playing' is documented; so we'll be posting the video as soon as the project is complete....

BACK, and with news....

 So after about a month hiatus, we are up and live again, with exciting news: we'll be re-mounting PINEAPPLE LUST, fully-realized at the March 2011 Goddamn Cobras Supper Club.  The theme of this Brooklyn-based gathering of foodies is "Food and the Future" and our 15 minute space-fruit intercourse section will serve as kind of a performance-dessert.  Watch for rehearsal pictures and video, drawings, music, and lengthy discussion of new design ideas.

Just a treat:

GOS Wrap Up!

All our thanks to those who came out to celebrate the Performances Artists of North Brooklyn! Sunday night was a complete success and we felt privileged to work with and produce the work so many spirited talents! Some choice photos from talented Goddamn Cobras photographer Danny Ghatis below:

BabySkinGlove 

Myself, Amy Rose Marsh (ARM)

Greenpoint-based ZEBROS present music for the end of the world.

The table at the front.

 The Walmartz

Aztec Economy performs THE KANSAS BOOK OF THE DEAD.

Art Enthusiasts.

The Gossip Factory.

ARM AND EL BEAU w/ Kristina Wilson, present PINEAPPLE LUST

Two of the ZEBROS, in action.

Rich Awn, of Green Air Radio & MomBucha

Charley Parden, with BabySkinGlove

A bonus, too: this video from Williamsburg's own THE GOSSIP FACTORY:

A very special thank you to Joann Kim, Katie Henner, Hugh McMullan, Jason Jeunnette, and Griffin Thomas and The Lutheran Church of the Messiah for giving us space, energy, and time.  Thank you!

And on to the next....

Very quickly comes up this: The Greenpoint Open Studios Performance Gallery. Official Information:

Greenpoint performance and literary group Boomslang bring together the neighborhood’s most engaging performers to celebrate all artists participating in Greenpoint Open Studios. The show will include performances by Arm and el Beau, The Aztec Economy, BabySkinGlove, Zebros, Swetha Regunathan & Kyle Warren, Jason Gray Platt, The Gossip Factory, and others. Hosted by Greenpoint’s own Rich Awn of Green Air Radio.

Greenpoint Open Studios is a weekend long event celebrating a burgeoning art scene in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. It is a collaborative effort between artists, organizations, businesses and volunteers to build a creative platform in which all members of the community can foster and contribute to a support system that encourages the sharing of ideas and relationships. As artist studios and exhibition spaces continue to emerge in the neighborhood we hope to facilitate the growth of a thriving art community.

The event will be held at Greenpoint's Lutheran Church of Messiah 129 Russell Street, Brooklyn NY, 11222 on Sunday, October 3rd, 2010 from 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM.  Please note there is a $5 Suggested Donation for this event.

Of course you can also just find information here.

IN/OUT TICKETS now up.

So two pieces of news:

1) Tickets are finally ONSALE for the IN/OUT Festival.  We're performing at 11.30 at night so come and be dedicated!

2)  The line up of Performers is finally announced.  They are (with detailed information to follow);

Anne Yoder

Jason Gray Platt

Charley Parden

Damon Pelletier

Katie Henner

Nick Leavens

Joshua Cole

Bailey Nolan

Hugh McMullan

More on these artists very soon.

 

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.

IN/OUT Festival

The line up is now posted for September's In/Out Festival.  It's awesome.

In Case You Missed It:

ARM was actively performing in a BOS cab piece with fellow BOOMSLANG and legendary GODDAMN COBRAS cohort Charley Parden at the helm.  Here's some choice photos of the piece, with video to follow soon:

Bailey Nolan Introduces.

Waiting to deliver a passage of text.

The author in the spotlight.  (All photos courtesy of Elizabeth Nolan Brown.)

SITEfest 2010

News News: One of Amy's plays, WORD PLAY / PAPER PLAY, will be on display at SITEfest 2010 in a workshop-style, staged reading (so almost fully there, maybe some scripts in hand, minimal technical requirements, etc., etc.).  The play will be produced by BOOMSLANG, the literary/performance enclave of NYC media collective THE GODDAMN COBRAS.  Elizabeth Nolan Brown and Charley Parden will read, Lee Sunday Evans will direct, and Eric will be responsible for the assemble of aesthetic-informing objects (as the play requires an extraordinary amount of old books and the eating of them.).

The play deals with two solitude-addicts who inhabit the top floor of a archive/library and spend night sifting through books.  Thomas makes a decision to be pronounced about his affection, while Clara abstractly questions real life vs. read life and which has a greater kind of place in the world.  It's short--30 minutes, and the conclusion will be interesting--please attend.

The piece will be shown with Katharine Henner's SPEAKING IN STOMACHS, another communication-themed short, with an audience talk back narrated by Claire Epstein, of chat shop infamy.

Details:

Where: 3rd Ward, 195 Morgan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11237

When: Saturday, March 6th, 2010, 1 pm.

Cost: 5 bucks, suggested.