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September 28 - October 14, 2007
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Now in its 8th YEAR, The NACL Catskill
Festival of New Theatre presents international avant-garde performers who
bring new plays, physical theatre, devised performance, community interactive
works, site specific theatre, new media, and performer training workshops to
NACL’s theatre and artist
residence located two hours from New York City in Highland
Lake, NY. |
Friday, September 28 at 8
PM
LAVA (NYC)
“Tides” (All Ages)
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LAVA, the all-female Brooklyn-based company led by founding choreographer Sarah East Johnson, will perform their latest performance work, Tides. Beloved by audiences of all ages for their awe-inspiring acrobatics, progressive wit, and intriguing scientific metaphors, the company's latest creation delivers on all three. Tides incorporates features ranging from time-capture video of the Rockaway shoreline to original live music and song, karaoke-dance, and double trapeze work, all connected by an underlying architecture based on ocean wave patterns and the movement of the sea. Tides choreography is augmented by the company's research into anthropology and the fluidity of culture. Tides features a specially assembled company of 10 women, 3 of whom are LAVA veterans, that represents the newest evolution of the “LAVA lineage”. |
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Gentlemen callers beware. New York City’s Ten Directions-- Audrey Crabtree, Lynn Berg, Aimee German, and director, Eric Davis (aka The Red Bastard) have created an audacious Bouffon clown version of Tennesee Williams, The Glass Menagerie. The Wingfields plume their nest with broken glass, twisted morals, and perverted minds, Tom, Amanda and Laura claim no responsibility for your hurt feelings or offended sentiments. The performance is brazen, and filthy and is described in NYTheatre.com as “Something vulgar, seedy, and grotesque. It's a twisted blend of Charles Addams, John Waters, and America's most beloved playwright Tennessee Williams.” The play’s director, Eric Davis describes Bouffon Clowning: "Grotesque in nature, the bouffon is the outcast shunned by society. On rare occasions, they are asked to perform for the pleasure of those who previously persecuted them. On these occasions the bouffons willingly accept. Thus, these hideous creatures enter the circle of society once more, light on their feet, eternally smiling with hateful eyes. Charming, entertaining and smart, they plan to take the piss out of you all!" |
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The Uncanny Appearance of Sherlock Holmes is an acrobatic, rock-and-roll play based on an original Sherlock Holmes story written by NACL director Brad Krumholz. The world-famous detective, Sherlock Holmes (Brett Keyser) investigates the elaborate murders of Dr. Jeremy Nietzsche and Dr. Kevin Freud. He and his sidekick, Watson (Tannis Kowalchuk) become embroiled in a competition of wits against a formidable female detective, Jacqueline Derrida (Sarah Dey Hirshan). As the investigation progresses, the case begins to unravel, as does the very fabric of Holmes's logical reality. The performance also features Glenn Hall as Inspector Lestrade and Ophra Wolf as the suspect Belle Whittaker. The Uncanny Appearance of Sherlock Holmes is NACL’s latest ensemble creation. NACL, based in Highland Lake, NY built the performance at its theatre center and artist residence last year and has since performed it in New Orleans and Toronto.
“The writing is clever, the actors are all superb, and the music was catching. Their goal is to inspire, which they do—this is the definition of great theatre.”
- Patricia Adams, The Towne Crier |
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In this exciting new work, New York City’s The Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf founders Brooke O’Harra and Brendan Connelly explore a number of similarities between the styles of 1970s Punk and 18th Century Kabuki. Loud, violent, transgressive and fueled by radical politics: the traditional Japanese theatre form Kabuki and 1970s punk rock both represent unforgiving performance movements that captured the stories of social discord. Combining live music performed by two drummers, a keyboardist and a bass player with traditional elements of Japanese performance, this production reinterprets the 18th Century Chikamatsu classic Drum of the Waves of Horikawa. O’Harra remarks “Both forms use an elaborate gestural system that attempts to codify strong emotional conditions such as humiliation, shame, anger, lust, jealousy and rebellion. While Kabuki’s dramaturgical building blocks include rape, double suicide, sword fights and beheadings, Punk favors frenzy, choreographed chaos and overt hostility. Adults Only. |
Sunday, October 7 at 8 PM
Laura
Moran: Recording Live (PA)
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Laura E.J. Moran is recording live at NACL!
Delaware Valley’s own slam poet champion, Laura E.J. Moran, joins forces with local musicians to present a volume of new poems... set to music, to be recorded live at NACL and pressed to CD. “Laura Moran is poet chanteuse of the highest order. Every time this woman steps on a stage, molecules shift to be nearer to her words. Rarely do you find someone who without raising volume above normal speech can hush a room to rapture; Laura is just such a poet.” ---LouderArts Project, NYC |
Friday, October 12 at 8 PM
Ker Wells (Toronto)
“Living Tall”
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Living Tall is a new one-man show by Toronto actor, Ker Wells. It is a poignantly touching and funny story of a salesman named Jeffrey Weaver. His presentation is going well as he guides his audience through the steps of “Living Tall,” his high-octane and delightfully strange motivational program for increasing sales and earning respect in the business community. But Weaver can’t escape the story that haunts him and threatens to knock him seriously off-message: A key mistake during a job interview in Genoa, Italy leads to his wandering the city streets, where he encounters and joins a funeral procession. What happens next allows Weaver to acknowledge a loss he has endured but never confronted. Living Tall is an original three-way creative collaboration between Ker Wells, Toronto director Karin Randoja, and Cleveland writer Michael Geither. Cool Cleveland said it was “Killer-funny...impeccably directed... a mind-blowing performance…. already one of the outstanding theatre experiences of 2007!" |
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A solo show written and performed by New York’s Michelle Nicole Matlock digs up the dirt on the century-old icon of Aunt Jemima. The bandanna'ed superstar of minstrel shows, Hollywood epics, and the breakfast nook is re-imagined from her dark history in the antebellum south, freed from the humiliating role for talented black actresses, and set loose from her pancake box prison on an unsuspecting audience. The Mammy Project confronts the American stereotype of Mammy as a white man's fantasy, a black woman's history and a country's favorite product. This project travels from the life and times of Nancy Green (the first woman hired to play the part of a mammy - Aunt Jemima), through the minstrel show era and silver-screen Mammies, to the present day world of television, movies and talk show hostesses. Directed by Amy Gordon. |
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Join us for brunch! We are serving french toast, coffee, and best of all, our favorite dynamic duo of transgressive art. Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver of Split Britches will perform their favorite pieces in a retro-perspective that celebrates an amazing 30-YEAR career as teachers and creators of the most influential and innovative queer theatre in the USA and beyond. Peggy Shaw will also present some sneak preview pieces from her upcoming solo show, "Miss America." |
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