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by The Happiest Medium on February 20, 2012
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‘Til Love Do Us Part
High Frequency Theatre
A graveyard. Two funerals. Two strangers. Grief. An escape. And a mysterious young girl. Oddities of darkness and light come alive through intense emotion and intimacy.
Show Times:
- Wed 2/22 @6:00pm
- Fri 2/24 @ 10:30pm
- Sun 2/26 @ 5:30pm
- Thu 3/1 @ 9:00pm
- Sat 3/3 @ 4:00pm
Answers by Andrew Hall
(Playwright)
Karen Tortora-Lee’s Question
That’s some title. How did you come up with it – and what does it mean?
Andrew: The title, ‘Til Love Do Us Part, comes from the legendary phrase commonly used in marriage ceremonies: ‘Til Death Do Us Part. A friend of mine read the play, which at the time was entitled The Eulogy of an Endless Marriage. She hated the title. She began to make countless suggestions. And then she said it. She meant to say it should be retitled ‘Til Death Do Us Part, but she accidentally said “Love” instead of “Death.” And it made so much sense to me. The play on words has become a dark symbol of the love/hate relationship the audience watches develop over time.
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by The Happiest Medium on February 20, 2012
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Aerial Allusions
AGAWA SAPPHIRE
By Azana Productions
A journey looking into the perspective of humanity through feminine/masculine viewpoints using traditional/non-traditional movement; combining Dance, Clown and Theatre to express the emotions of two individuals. Think, Cry, Laugh, Intrigued and Entertained by the observations these introspective minds!
Show Times:
- Wed 2/22 @10:30pm
- Sat 2/25 @ 1:00pm
- Sun 2/26 @ 5:30pm
- Tue 2/28 @ 7:30pm
- Wed 2/29 @ 6:00pm
- Sat 3/3 @ 2:30pm
Answers by Azana
(Performer)
Karen Tortora-Lee’s Question
That’s some title. How did you come up with it – and what does it mean?
Azana: It’s an insinuation that I’m an airhead, aerialist and air-sign. It alludes to lofty ideals but also quirky action. It suggests slightly more than acting, but confirms nothing. It’s as vaugly expressive as I am.
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by The Happiest Medium on February 19, 2012
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Stripper Lesbians
Company: Rising Sun Performance Company
Evan, a woman’s studies major, is writing a killer senior thesis– by becoming a stripper at her favorite strip club. In between her current girlfriend, a stripper-lesbian, and her ex boyfriend, an unemployed Tisch graduate, Evan dances the line between love and betrayal. A comedy about what it really means to be ‘in love with a stripper’ and what it means to become one.
Show Times:
- Wed 2/22 @ 11pm
- Sat 2/25 @ 6:30pm
- Mon 2/27 @ 11pm
- Thu 3/1 @ 8pm
- Sat 3/3 @ 3:30pm
Answers by: The Whole Gang!
(Because we’re an ensemble company,
we’re gonna answer this ensemble style!
Everyone’s got a little something to say!)
Karen Tortora-Lee’s Question
That’s some title. How did you come up with it – and what does it mean?
Kate Foster (The Playwright): The title was the joke that fit. When I was writing the play, I would tell interested parties I was writing about strippers and lesbians. People kept on giving me the classic double-take, so I had a feeling Stripper-Lesbians was onto something.
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by The Happiest Medium on February 18, 2012
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Drowning Ophelia: A New Rock Musical
Company: The RIFF Collective
In Drowning Ophelia, we see one girl with a microphone and the story of Hamlet told through an exciting theatrical concert of sex, drowning, and rock ‘n’ roll.
Show Times:
- Sat 2/25 @ 7pm
- Sun 2/26 @ 2:30pm
- Mon 2/27 @ 10:30pm
- Thu 3/1 @ 6pm
- Fri 3/2 @ 9pm
- Sun 3/4 @ 1pm
Answers by JD Cannady
(Director and Book Writer)
Karen Tortora-Lee’s Question
That’s some title. How did you come up with it – and what does it mean?
JD: Drowning Ophelia is an homage and riff off of the classic Hamlet story. After her self-proclaimed “tragic” drowning, Ophelia finds herself in purgatory with nothing to do. When the story comes back to her, four hundred years later, will she drown in the details over again or rise above?
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by The Happiest Medium on February 18, 2012
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I’m Only Explaining This Once
Written & Performed by Moe Rosen – New York, NY
Hi I’m Moe. I changed my name last year. This show is about why. It’s hard to explain, so I like to do it in large groups to save time.
Show Times:
- Thu 2/23 @ 11pm
- Sat 2/25 @ 5pm
- Sun 2/26 @ 2pm
- Wed 2/29 @ 9:30pm
- Fri 3/2 @ 6:30pm
- Sun 3/4 @ 5pm
Answers by Moe Rosen
(Writer / Performer)
Karen Tortora-Lee’s Question
That’s some title. How did you come up with it – and what does it mean?
Moe: The title has to do with my name and changing it, that is so impossible to understand that I literally had to write a one man show about it in order to explain it to friends.
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by The Happiest Medium on February 17, 2012
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Man Saved By Condiments!
Company: Theatre Arlo
Based on the true story of a man whose car went off a bridge, broke his hip, and survived for five days by eating the packets of condiments he found under his seat.
Show Times:
- Thu 2/23 @ 9:30pm
- Sat 2/25 @ 11pm
- Sun 2/26 @ 3:30pm
- Tue 2/28 @ 6:30pm
- Fri 3/2 @ 11pm
- Sat 3/3 @ 9:30pm
Answers by Bill Stiteler
(Director)
Karen Tortora-Lee’s Question
That’s some title. How did you come up with it – and what does it mean?
Bill: It’s based on the true story of a man who was trapped in his car for five days. He survived for five days by eating condiment packets.
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by The Happiest Medium on February 17, 2012
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Musical Pawns
Company: Lost Music Productions
Musical Pawns mixes fact and fantasy, humor and pathos in attempting to explain why David Nowakowsky’s musical masterpieces have disappeared for almost 100 years. A musical treat by North America’s best singing actors.
Show Times:
- Fri 2/24 @ 5:30pm
- Sun 2/26 @ 4:00pm
- Mon 2/27 @ 9:00pm
- Tue 2/28 @ 6:00pm
- Fri 3/2 @ 8:30pm
- Sun 3/4 @ 2:30pm
Answers by Ron Graner
(Writer/Producer)
Karen Tortora-Lee’s Question
That’s some title. How did you come up with it – and what does it mean?
Ron: They were “Musical Pawns” in a deadly game of political chess.
There are many governments who still try to suppress the arts and especially music. In Turkey it is still dangerous to play Kurdish folk-tunes. The government fears the music may spur “Nationalist feelings” among the Kurds, who will try to separate from the country and form their own independent state. Cambodian music and dance found safe refuge in Canada and the United States and other Western democracies during the Kymer Rouge period, before being restored to its original home. . There are many, many examples where music, poetry and religion are considered dangerous. Think of what’s happening now in Tibet! Even Elvis Presley, and The Bare Naked Ladies have had their troubles with bureaucracy and they live(d) in a modern democracy!
In the case of David Nowakowsky (1848-1921) his music disappeared until 1989. Even his tomb-stone was destroyed!
I am trying to tell the story as political satire, and to have as much fun with the political absurdities as I can. The music is drop-dead gorgeous. The Dance numbers are insanely funny. I can say this in all modesty, because I only wrote the words. The music (for the most part) is Nowakowsky’s and the dances were created by Sean Hawk, one of our multi-talented singing-acting-dancing performers.
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by The Happiest Medium on February 16, 2012
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Big Girls Don’t Cry
Company: Crowning Monkey Productions
Written by: Rachelle Elie
Fringe veteran and winner of the 2008 Ottawa Fringe Festival Outstanding Comedy Award, Rachelle Elie returns with a dazzling new show about Haitian fathers, Kenyan night clubs, and aging Barbies.
Show Times:
- Fri 2/24 @ 8:00pm
- Sun 2/26 @ 6:30pm
- Mon 2/27 @ 6:30pm
- Thu 3/1 @ 6:30pm
- Sun 3/3 @ 6:30pm
- Sun 3/4 @ 2:00pm
Answers by Rachelle Elie
(Writer / Performer)
Karen Tortora-Lee’s Question
That’s some title. How did you come up with it – and what does it mean?
Rachelle: INTRO… I had just returned from Kenya and found the experience left me feeling overwhelmed with tears of joy and sadness. When girls grow up, have kids, and get married, and pursue a satisfying carreer…or not get married, not have kids but pursue a career, we’re expected to get our emotions together and we’re not supposed to cry. The reality is that we do cry and we want to cry. We also live in a society where people shut themselves off from their emotions and my job is to delve deeply into feelings and share them with the world.
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by The Happiest Medium on February 16, 2012
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The Traveling Musicians
Company: 3 Sticks
Music by Andrew Lynch
Inspired by the Grimm fairy tale, The Traveling Musicians chronicles the tumultuous career of the greatest animal rock band to ever break out of the cage and on the stage in this one of a kind theatrical rock show.
Show Times:
- Wed 2/22 @ 6pm
- Sat 2/25 @ 4pm
- Wed 2/29 @ 7:30pm
- Sat 3/3 @ 1pm
- Sun 3/4 @ 5:30pm
Answers by Andrew Lynch
(Composer)
Karen Tortora-Lee’s Question
That’s some title. How did you come up with it – and what does it mean?
Andrew: Our show is inspired by the Grimm Brothers fairy tale The Musicians of Brementown, sometimes referred to as the Traveling Musicians. While the title is not terribly original, we hope our animal glam rock band interpretation is.
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by The Happiest Medium on February 15, 2012
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Initium/Finis
Company: Theatre Reverb
Written by: Kristin Arnesen and Radoslaw Konopka
A sensual tale of violence and revolutions born in a futuristic metropolis. Theatre Reverb combines media, red-light cabaret, live music, Judeo-Christian and Hindu myth, and classical Indian dance-theatre to envelop spectators in a lush sci-fi noir.
Show Times:
- Wed 2/22 @ 8:00pm
- Sat 2/25 @ 9:30pm
- Tues 2/28 @ 8:00pm
- Fri 3/2 @ 8:00pm
- Sat 3/3 @ 8:00pm
Answers by Kristin Arnesen
(Co-creator, Designer, Performer)
Karen Tortora-Lee’s Question
That’s some title. How did you come up with it – and what does it mean?
Kristin: Initium-beginning; Finis-end (Latin). When it’s connected it means “the beginning of the end.” We put a “/” in between the two words to imply a connection in their meaning and a reversibility of the terms. Our piece explores the connection between creation and destruction in a journey through East/West mythology and science fiction media. This piece is a section of a larger production we are developing so it comes at the beginning of our end times project and the title also fit the subject matter so that’s why we picked it– though it’s hard to pronounce so we are having second thoughts! The larger project we are working on is called “Reliquum” which has a double meaning: mortal remains, and things yet to be. We are hoping to finish it next year.
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