by The Happiest Medium on February 18, 2012
Five Questions. Five Answers. And One Big Decision: Rock, Paper, Or Scissors?
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
Five Questions. Five Answers. And One Big Decision: Rock, Paper, Or Scissors?
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 16, 2012
Five Questions. Five Answers. And One Big Decision: Rock, Paper, Or Scissors?
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 15, 2012
Five Questions. Five Answers. And One Big Decision: Rock, Paper, Or Scissors?
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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by The Happiest Medium on February 7, 2012
Five Questions. Five Answers. And One Big Decision: Rock, Paper, Or Scissors?
Tali Brady, Afternoon Tea With Jane Austen (Photo by Karin Benedict)
Afternoon Tea With Jane Austen
Orange Wine Productions
Meet English novelist Jane Austen (the woman behind such beloved books as Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice) in this solo show about the creator of some of the most popular stories and characters in the English language.
Show Times:
- Fri 2/24 @ 6:30 pm
- Sat 2/25 @ 3:30 pm
- Mon 2/27 @ 9:30 pm
- Wed 2/29 @ 6:30 pm
- Fri 3/2 @ 9:30 pm
- Sun 3/4 @ 3:30 pm
Answers by Tali Brady
(Playwright / Performer)
Karen Tortora-Lee’s Question
That’s some title. How did you come up with it – and what does it mean?
Tali: I first came up with the title “Tea With Jane Austen” because I was creating an intimate show about a woman telling us about her life and I loved the mental image of telling one’s story over a cup of tea. (On the more mercenary side, I put in “Afternoon” at the beginning of the title to make sure it shows up higher in alphabetical listings!)
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by The Happiest Medium on February 5, 2012
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The Rope In Your Hands
Written and performed by Siobhan O’Loughlin
Directed by Danielle Skraastad
The Rope in Your Hands, written and performed by Siobhan O’Loughlin, is an interview-based solo show featuring the stories of thirteen different survivors of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Show Times:
- Wed 2/22 @ 9:30pm
- Sat 2/25 @ 8:00pm
- Wed 2/29 @ 8:00pm
- Sat 3/3 @ 11:00pm
- Sun 3/4 @ 6:00pm
Answers by Siobhan O’Loughlin
(Writer, Performer)
Karen Tortora-Lee’s Question
That’s some title. How did you come up with it – and what does it mean?
Siobhan: The Rope in Your Hands is based on interviews I conducted with survivors of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. The title is an actual quote from a homeless man I interviewed in the French Quarter—he said to me, “You got a man drowning in a lake, huh? And you got a rope in ya hand? You don’t debate about whether or not you throw a man a rope!” For me, this embodies the show itself: if we have the ability to help each other, we should. The rope is in your hands as well as mine. It is in our hands.
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by The Happiest Medium on February 2, 2012
Five Questions. Five Answers. And One Big Decision: Rock, Paper, Or Scissors?
Mac Rogers (photo by Lauren Arneson)
Judge, Yuri & Executioner
Company: Temerity Theatre Company
Directed by: DeLisa White
Zack is an 85-year-old masochist who prefers older women. His girlfriend just left him. Where can he find a kinky senior citizen now? Time to tell his darkly funny life story!
Show Times:
- Thu 2/23 @ 8:00pm
- Fri 2/24 @ 11:00pm
- Sun 2/26 @ 12:30pm
- Thu 3/01 @ 9:30pm
- Sat 3/03 @ 8:00pm
Answers by Ed Malin
(Playwright)
Karen Tortora-Lee’s Question
That’s some title. How did you come up with it – and what does it mean?
Ed: The title is a pun on several episodes from the main character’s life. He is 85 years old, has seen a lot, and is a very happy masochist. As such, he finds himself identifying with Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
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by The Happiest Medium on February 1, 2012
Five Questions. Five Answers. And One Big Decision: Rock, Paper, Or Scissors?
Little Lady featuring Sandrine Lafond (Photo credit Paolo A. Santos)
Little Lady
The transformation of Cirque Du Soleil performer and Celine Dion dancer to performer generated theater artist is mirrored in this dark, comic and at times grotesque fable about our modern obsession with image. The exquisite movement skills of Lafond juxtapose with the world of distortion and manipulation accentuating LITTLE LADY’s tormented and blissful metamorphosis.
Show Times:
- Thu 2/23 @ 6:30pm
- Sat 2/25 @ 2pm
- Tue 2/28 @ 9:30pm
- Thu 3/1 @ 11pm
- Sat 3/3 @ 5pm
- Sun 3/4 @ 12:30pm
Answers by Sandrine Lafond
(Creator and performer)
Karen Tortora-Lee’s Question
That’s some title. How did you come up with it – and what does it mean?
Sandrine: It was last summer, I was on Manitoulin Island in North Ontario. I was working on two different characters and I needed a name to make sure I wouldn’t mix them up. It was the first thing that came to my mind. The only reason I kept it is because people liked it right away, so they decided! The name of the character and the piece are the same as ,I wanted simplicity.
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by Karen Tortora-Lee on March 24, 2011
These women of the arts hail from different disciplines, but they all have an indomitable spirit and a luminescent spark that makes them amazing human beings who are out there every day, doing amazing work.
Today we continue our series with Heidi G. Grumelot.
Heidi Grumelot is the Artistic Director of Horse Trade Theater Group. Horse Trade is comprised of three theatres that are like second homes to me: UNDER St. Marks, The Kraine and The Red Room. I had the pleasure of getting to know her after we sat on a panel together during FRIGID NewYork 2011 discussing Self Producing Artists. Honestly, I”m surpirsed it took me this long to actually meet her considering what a fan I am of Horse Trade and how much of my time is spent there.
Heidi is also a talented director; she was responsible for the extremely enjoyable Donnie and the Monsters which was held over last year. I’m happy to see someone so cool, so together and so strong being responsible for so much of the NYC downtown theatre scene. I can’t wait to continue working with her in the years to come. Now here’s Heidi’s story …
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by Diánna Martin on March 9, 2011
There Is No Good News featuring David Mogolov (Photo by Daniel Van Ackere)
From the moment you hear David Mogolov utter the words: “When I was seven years old my parents bought me a bullwhip,” the ice is broken, the walls immediately come down, and you are brought into a world of a hilarious, yet serious, one-man show that is There Is No Good News. I found myself laughing – no, guffawing, loudly – many, many times as we were presented with a glorious diatribe on everything from maniacal boys gone wild to Katrina victims; meth addicts with a purpose to job interviewers that have odd ways of selecting their candidates. But it’s not just a comedic piece; it’s razor sharp in its wit and cynicism in a manner reminiscent of David Sedaris, Dennis Miller, Brian Unger, and Bill Mahr.
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