Artist in Residence Showing The turtle pond was a fail Cara Scarmack, Priscilla Holbrook, Katie Proulx & Ashley Nease

About This Show

Soder and Mailka are our Elegant Lades who wheel the audience through cycles of birth, ruin and regeneration. The play tumbles forth as almost the best junk shop you’ve ever been in so you can see the culture is not as organized as we think. It is a world wherein objects are alive, sentient beings who complain about each other and their bad behavior.

This showing serves as the culmination of Cara Scarmack’s Dixon Place residency. Come witness the first stabs of this play’s early development.

About the Artists

Cara Scarmack is a theater-maker and musician who has collaboratively helmed her plays BETTER NOT TOUCH THAT; WHAT HAPPENED IN OHIO; OHIO, REVISITED; and BEFORE YOU GET TOO FAR AFIELD. Scarmack has happily and consistently worked with Priscilla Holbrook, Katie Proulx, Cassandra Weston, Chris Weston and Ashley Nease. Together with Jessica Almasy, Kate Benson and William Burke, Scarmack is a member of WOOK TAUT MAJESTY, a writing/performance collective. Scarmack participated in Target Margin’s inaugural Institute for Collaborative Theater Making. She is an Affiliate Artist of New Georges. Scarmack earned her MFA in Mac Wellman’s playwriting program at Brooklyn College.

Priscilla Holbrook’s New York theatre credits include productions at P.S.122, LaMama, the Kitchen, the Ontological, HERE and countless other sites. Priscilla has as worked with distinguished directors, including Reza Abdoh (Walker Arts Center, European tours), Pavol Liska, Mike Taylor, Kevin Cunningham (3LD), Edward Elefterion, Tony Torn, Renee Philippi and Vera Beren. Has collaborated extensively with Cara Scarmack for the last six years. Her band Susan Jane recently released their album GROWING WILD.

Ashley Nease is a theatre and filmmaker. Her work as an actor, vocalist, and producer has been seen on NYC stages including New York Theatre Workshop, The Field, and Dixon Place. “If we were to peel away this massive disguise, the blocks of repression over human techniques for earning glory, we would arrive at the potentially most liberating question of all, the main problem of human life: How empirically true is the cultural hero system that sustains and drives [us]?” ― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

Katie Proulx is an actor, movement director, and teaching artist based in Brooklyn. Favorite roles include Diane in The Thugs, Gilly Bomb/Pol in BEFORE YOU GET TOO FAR AFIELD, and Miranda in An Evening With Ladley and Craig.  A proud graduate of the Brooklyn College MFA Acting program, she is thrilled to be working with Cara, Priscilla and Ashley again.

Tuesday, September 13 at 7:30pm

General Admission

$15 in advance
$18 at the door

Students/Seniors/idNYC
$12

Estimated Runtime
65 minutes

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Credits

Photo credit
Emma Scarmack

Written & Directed by
Cara Scarmack

Music Direction
Priscilla Holbrook

Choreography
Katie Proulx

Film Direction
Ashley Nease

Lighting Design
Christopher Weston

Set Design Consultant
Kimie Nishikawa

Stage Management
Megan Horan

Featuring
Priscilla Holbrook, Katie Proulx & Ashley Nease

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