Little Theatre Curated by Frank Boudreaux, Normandy Raven Sherwood, Katie Rose McLaughlin, James Allister Sprang & Jeffrey M. Jones
About This Show
The OBIE Award-Winning Little Theatre—a more-or-less monthly presentation of new theatre, dance, performance & media, more-or-less curated by Frank Boudreaux, Normandy Raven Sherwood, Katie Rose McLaughlin, James Allister Sprang & Jeffrey M. Jones—continues its sixteenth season.
The December iteration features new work by Built for Collapse, Darian Dauchan, Tiny Little Band, and Spencer Campbell.
WE WERE WILD ONCE
Episode 7: Too Big for the World
Created and performed by Built For Collapse
Collaborators: Sanaz Ghajar, Vince Santvoord, Ben Hobbs, Stephen Bennett, Danielle Santos, Jenna Antoniades
A meditation on tiny shovels and the power of cornflakes, whilst we dance on a beach at the edge of the world.
Excerpts from THE BROBOT JOHNSON EXPERIENCE
Written and Performed by Darian Dauchan
Brobot Johnson is a transmedia piece written, starring, directed and composed by Darian Dauchan that exists in three parts, with three different mediums, a Hip Hop album: Brobot Johnson: Bionic Boom Bap, a Sci Fi Web Series: The New Adventures of Brobot Johnson, and finally as a theatrical production: The Brobot Johnson Experience.
The story follows the adventures of Brobot Johnson, an android newly invented by a scientist named Professor Toussaint, and his quest to learn the basic fundamentals of how to be a little more human one mundane but miraculous experience at a time. The tone is both whimsical and humorous as the simplicity of the most basic tasks are amplified to epic triumphs and failures, i.e. eating, walking, dancing, smiling, fighting, etc. The music serves as the score for the narrative and each track from the album coincides with an episode from the series. The web series is part silent film(no dialogue), part music video, part performance art with the bulk of the episodes happening on the streets of New York City. The theatrical production is a Hip Hop solo concert that combines and reimagines both the series and the album through multimedia, live looped vocals, lyrics, and beat-boxing, is being developed with the support of the All for One Theater company where Dauchan is the artist in residence, and directed by Andrew Scoville, who was the Associate Director of the hit show Here Lies Love at the Public Theater.
YOUR HAIR LOOKED GREAT (Excerpt)
Made by Tiny Little Band
Principal Collaborators: Stefanie Abel Horowitz and Jerry Lieblich
A merry little clownish romp through the crippling anxiety-riddled dread underpinning perhaps a sizable chunk of our post-post-modern alienated and often very alien-feeling space-time.
5-10 minutes of CHROMA KEY
Performed by Justin Anselmi, Kate Hurley, Alyse Lamb, Brian Lady.
Sound by Adam Kruckenberg
Projections by Scott M. Ries
Script by Spencer Campbell
Directed by Theresa Buchheister and Spencer Campbell
Stage Managed by GJ Dowding
Assistant Directed by Blake Bolan
Set Design by Abigail Entsminger
Full Cast – E James Ford, Catrin Lloyd Bollard, Coco Conroy, Alex Holt, Ryan William Downey
Monday, December 12 at 7:30pm
General Admission
$15 in advance
$18 at the door
Students / Seniors / idNYC
$12
80 minutes
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