Festival Schedule - 2004

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Friday, August 6, 8PM Sxip’s Hour of Charm Sxip Shirey and Friends (New York) From NYC’s hottest underground variety show scene! A night of mental, vocal, theatrical and physical contortionism, hosted by Sxip Shirey. Featuring delightful puppetry, amazing contortionism, butoh, performance art, clowns, vocal soundscapes, and incredible music. Cabaret, Side-Show, Circus, and Contemporary Vaudeville is alive and well in the Catskills.

Saturday, August 7th, 8PM Friday the 13th, 8PM Terrotica NACL Theatre (New York) “An erotic nightmare” directed by NACL’s Brad Krumholz. A couple goes to a cabin in the woods to focus on their relationship, and what ensues is a surreal exposé of human dreams, desires, fears, sex, and love. Using film, physical theatre, vivid images, and music, TERROTICA exists at the intersection of fear and arousal. Adults only.

Saturday, August 14, 8PM WORLD PREMIERE The Confessions of Punch and Judy Number Eleven Theatre (Toronto) Cleveland Public Theatre (Cleveland) Created by Tannis Kowalchuk of NACL Theatre, Ker Wells of Number Eleven, and director Raymond Bobgan. The Confessions of Punch and Judy is slapstick, funny, physical, and viciously honest, capturing the spirit of the classic Punch and Judy puppet show. Two virtuoso performers leap between the psychologically real and theatrically surreal, to expose the extremes of love. (Some adult language.)

Sunday, August 15, 3PM Matinee and 8PM (Second Showing Just Added!) Uncle Oscar’s Experiment Zuppa Circus (Halifax, Canada) An outdoor theatre performance by Halifax-based company, Zuppa Circus. Felicity Luckless is cursed. Or so they say. Everywhere she goes she brings death and destruction, until Dr. Oscar Smithisson-Burke announces he can cure the poor girl. Inspired by nineteenth century melodramas and grand guignol, Uncle Oscar’s Experiment is a funny, musical outdoor theatre fantasia.

Monday-Thursday, August 16-19 THE NEW THEATRE CONFERENCE Four days of workshops, play readings, and lectures, exploring the process of new play creation, with some of the most innovative scholars, playwrights, and theatre-makers of today. Participants include Joe Martin, Erik Ehn, Lisa Wolford, Saviana Stanescu, Lawrence Bogad, Thomas Bartscherer, Kristen Kosmas, Rob Plowman, Henry Israeli, Mike Geither, Jennifer Parker-Starbuck, and Joshua Abrams. Nightly public lectures and play readings, 8 PM.

Friday, August 20, 8PM The Maid of Orléans: A Joan of Arc Story Artspot Productions/Moving Humans (New Orleans) The Maid of Orléans: A Joan of Arc Story takes place in the limbo of the 500 years between Joan’s burning at the stake and her canonization by The Church. Through story, movement, music, song, sculpture and video projection, the company returns (Nita and Zita, 2002) to present a fantastic world of the Saints, as they might tell it. An epic and visually stunning performance with original music.

Saturday, August 21, 8PM Just Announced! Isabel Banished in Isabel and MaTRIX LaMicro Theater (New York) First, LaMicro presents a one-act play by Chilean playwright Juan Radrigan, full of humor, music, anger, and pathos. In its original incarnation the play was a one-character play about the many people who disappeared during the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. In this version Isabel is divided.  She is still a lonely homeless woman railing at the world around her, but she has also become a reflection of herself, as she once was or as she wishes she might have been, while at the same time embodying the memory of her lover, her father and her tormentors. The language of this performance by New York's LaMicro Theater is 20% Spanish and 80% English. After the show, LaMicro will present a staged reading of its newest work, MaTRIX, a hilarious farce by Diana Raznovich about an agency that provides you the mother you always wanted, or the mother you always thought you wanted."

Friday, August 27, 8PM Fever Pitch Under The Table (New York) Created and performed by the Under The Table ensemble, Fever Pitch is a fast paced Commedia dell’Arte performance with masks and high physicality. When two PR goons from the Department of Homeland Security get their mitts on the work of Klyftan von Qlvdn, a serious capital-A Artist, there’s nothing that won’t be done in the name of art (or money, power, war, and terror). Expect to laugh… a lot. (All ages.)

Saturday, August 28, 3PM Matinee WORLD PREMIERE Circus Amok (New York) Circus Amok's new one-ring circus extravaganza features amazing acrobats, jaunty jugglers, stunning stilters, danger, dancers, gogo and more, in a searing look at the events of the year. Featuring a bombastic look at New York City mayor Bloomberg and the mysterious re-workings of the NYC school system. Circus Amok has been touring New York City parks for over a decade. An all ages show.