TINY THEATER!
a tiny performance festival
FESTIVAL DATES: May 23-24 at 8pm
Tickets available at Theatermania.com
Tiny Theater is a performance festival that aims to include theater, dance, multi-media, puppetry, etc. Works are no longer than 10 minutes and are presented festival style in a 6’ x 6’ x 6’ box constructed of PVC pipe—performers and scenic elements must not exist outside the box at any point during each piece. The festival is co-presented by the Ontological-Hysteric Incubator and The Brick Theater.
The festival is a one-week event designed to promote interest in experimentation and new forms of spatially challenged performance.
Tiny Theater performances at THE BRICK:
~6x3=SAFETY
Written by Justin Maxwell
Directed by Sarah Nerboso
Performed by Giselle D'Souza
Ever have a general sense of foreboding? Ever overreact to your general sense of foreboding? Ever seriously completely overreact to an overwhelming sense of foreboding? In 6x=SAFETY, five women respond to a ridiculously foreboding world with ridiculous actions, all while exploring the nature of the geometric solid.
ALICE AT THE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE 'GOING OUT ALTOGETHER, LIKE A CANDLE'
Created and written by: Autumn Widdoes
Choreography by Taehoon Yoo, Larkin Clark and Autumn Widdoes
Tap dance choreography by: Larkin Clark
Performed by Larkin Clark and Tae Hoon Yoo
Scenic Consulting by David Behringer
Stage Managing by Rebekah Steinfeld
A. (Alice) finds herself on the verge of a claustrophobic, monotonous life until one day she falls down a wormhole and ends up at the edge of the universe. There she meets up with R. (Rabbit) a celestial pirate, and sometime mailroom clerk, who is in the middle of a tug-of-war with a black hole. Madness (Synthropy-Entropy, the choreopoetics of space, collapsing universes and collapsing economies) and tea parties ensue.
BECKETT, MATH, AND A BATH
Created by Christopher Loar
Directed by Rafael Gallegos
Performed by Christopher Loar & Martina Potratz
What if the later and lesser known works / life of Samuel Beckett, a branch of pure mathematics known as Combinatorics and the history of bathing all had a crazy party in your bathroom? Beckett, Math and a Bath uses text, movement, technology and two humans to combine, synthesize, align and hypnotize these three ingredients into a performance like no other! Drawing specifically from Beckett's Quad, CONLAB warps the bathroom into a laboratory where two people try to connect and relate through bubble bath, equations and coursed movement.
COMMAND POST OF THE FUTURE
Created by Jessica Segall
Puppets by Anitra Haendel and Jessica Segall
Performed by Anitra Haendel, Jessica Segall and Ted Strauss
Geek Chorus: buncha geeks
What has seven heads, ten horns, and sounds like running water? What does it have to do with social security and John McCain? Answers to this question and other such queries about doomsday theology and it’s relationship to current politics will be answered by hand puppets.
NIOBE
Adapted and Directed by Eddie Kim
Apollo, sun god or sniper? Insult his family, and you'd better be prepared to face the consequences. A re-telling of the story of Niobe from Ted Hughes' Tales from Ovid in which the deaths of Niobe's fourteen children will be staged using Halo3 over Xbox live.
PRESENT TENSE
Written by Charles Borkhuis
Directed by Gabriel Shanks
Performed by Frank Blocker and Ben Trawick-Smith
Stage Manager: Jeni Shanks; Scenic Design: Allen Cutler; Sound Design: Robbie Heacock
Two characters find themselves slipping in and out of parallel lives through “wormholes” in the space-time of the play. One believes he has dozed off with a book in his lap and the play is a curiously lucid dream, while the other is convinced that their live performances are desperately real. For both, the play’s complications and reversals become increasingly fascinating and frightening.
at The Brick, 575 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
one block from the Lorimer stop of the L train / Metropolitan stop of the G train
all tickets: $15.00 available at www.theatermania.com
