The NACL Catskill Festival
of New Theatre
July 27 to August 5, 2001

July 27, The Hidden Twin, by Wishounds (Cleveland, USA)
July 28, VinSanto, by Segni Particolari (Naples, Italy)
July 28, Lake Ivan Performance Group (New York, USA)
July 29, The Time Cycle, by NaCl Theatre (New York, USA)
July 29, Murderers Bay, by Lisa Black (Los Angeles, USA)
July 29, The Garden, by Laura Astwood (Toronto, Canada)
August 2, The Passion according to G.H., by NaCl Theatre (New York, USA)
August 3, The Hidden Twin, by Wishounds (Cleveland, USA)
August 4, Icaria, by Number Eleven Theatre (Toronto, USA)
August 5, The Time Cycle, by NaCl Theatre (New York, USA)
August 5, Mirrors,by Selma Trevino (Sao Paolo, Brazil)
August 5, Samuel Beckett's Act Without Words I, by Spatial Relations (Winnipeg, Canada)

 

Friday, July 27, 8 PM-- A World Premiere
WISHHOUNDS, The Hidden Twin (Cleveland)

An unorthodox book steers a young historian into the circle of an antiquarian cult, whose ritual reenactments threaten to shatter her conception of America's beginnings. Cleveland-based Wishhounds marry the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne and the founding fathers with evocative physicality and haunting songs in a rare theatrical double-take on early American history. The performance features the ensemble of Holly Holsinger, Brett Keyser, Rebecca Spencer, Tracy Broyles, Kristie Lang, Mariah Sage Leeds, and is directed by acclaimed director, Raymond Bobgan.

Saturday, July 28, 8 PM
A Double Bill

SEGNI PARTICOLARI, VinSanto (Naples, Italy) --
A World Premiere

VinSanto reveals, through text, music, and physical action a story inspired by the life of one of Italy's most revered Saints. Actors Donald Kitt and Alessandra di Castri interpret and create a new world inspired by . VinSanto is performed in Italian and English, and is directed by ex-Odin Teatret artist, Sylvia Ricciardelli, a current teacher and performer of Koreja in Lecce, Italy.

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LAKE IVAN PERFORMANCE GROUP
(New York City)

New York-based Lake Ivan Performance Group creates unpredictable, visionary, and surreal theater, laced with ironic humor. Actors David Finkelstein and James Martin blend their voices with a live sound mix created by Cassandra Weston, while silent performer Agnes de Garron creates visual magic from simple objects. At this 30-minute performance, Lake Ivan will create a collage of music, words, and images to transport you to a strange inner landscape.

 

 

Sunday, July 29, 3 PM
NACL THEATRE, The Time Cycle (New York)

The Time Cycle is a performance for young people ages 6 and up. A time pilot named Grace Faluta is sent on a crazy adventure back in time where she visits Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, and a mysterious Medieval Alchemist. Incorporating NACL signature theatre elements-- a capella song, stilt walking, and great costumes-- this 40 minute piece mixes science, art, and historical facts to tell an adventurous tale of the power of knowledge, imagination, and belief. The performance features Tannis Kowalchuk, Brad Krumholz, and Megan Wyler.

 

Sunday, July 29, 8 PM
A double bill

 

LISA BLACK, Murderers Bay (Los Angeles)

 

Murderers Bay, a solo show written and performed by Los Angeles artist, Lisa Black, is a spellbinding travelogue that explodes with tales of battle and peaceful acts that beget legends in New Zealand's Thermal District. Murderers Bay strikes terror, makes you laugh, and speaks directly from the heart of actress Lisa Black, who has performed in Poland, Italy, Romania, Brazil, Belgium, and across North America.

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LAURA ASTWOOD, The Garden (Toronto)--
USA Premiere

The Garden introduces us to a vigorous young woman who is dying and has one hour before her spirit must depart for the next place. With this impossible time-limit looming, the performance explores the emotional and psychological state of a woman whose time is up, and who must leave life before she's ready. Toronto based actor Laura Astwood and director Karin Randoja have created an intricate and moving portrait, based on text from the letters of Barbara Gosling Gray.

 

Thursday, August 2, 8 PM and 10 PM

NACL THEATRE, The Passion according to G.H.
(New York)

The audience of 30 sits inside the set to watch NACL Theatre actress, Tannis Kowalchuk as G.H., an ordinary woman whose existence is violently overturned by the discovery of an enormous cockroach in her home. The performance was adapted and directed by Brad Krumholz from the novel The Passion according to G.H., by one of Brazil's most famous authors, Clarice Lispector. In April, 2001, The Village Voice wrote, "...Kowalchuk's beautiful performance makes the evening a delight. Kowalchuk has one of those qualities only good Beckettian actors have: she manages to wrench meaning and drive spectators to metaphysical flights out of the most quotidian matters."

 

Friday, August 3, 8 PM

WISHHOUNDS, The Hidden Twin (Cleveland)
(See above description)

Saturday, August 4, 8 PM

NUMBER ELEVEN THEATRE, Icaria (Toronto)--
USA Premiere

Icaria is a kaleidoscopic re-imagining of the Icarus myth, in which a woman summons memories of her eccentric family and her brother's wild dream of flight. Director Ker Wells brings ten years of physical theatre experience to this tale in which "...the uniformly excellent cast dive deeply into their characters, using not only the play's Albee-ish dialogue, but dance, poetry, choral singing, and almost acrobatic movement to tell Thomas's story." (Toronto's Eye Magazine). A haunting journey into the exquisite and terrifying wreckage of childhood... The performance features Varrick Grimes, Alex McLean, Liz Rucker, and Jane Wells.

 

Sunday, August 5, 3 PM
NACL THEATRE, The Time Cycle (New York)
(See above description)

 

Sunday, August 5, 8 PM
A Double Bill

 

SELMA TREVINO, Mirrors (Brazil)

Mirrors is performed by a Brazilian corporeal mime artist, Selma Trevino, and co-directed by William Trevino. Using the poems of Lope de Vega, Brazilian folk songs, and a passage from The Book of Revelations, Selma Trevino performs in Spanish, Portuguese, and English, exploring humanity through the lives of the Biblical Marys. Combining an extraordinary physical talent with music and text, Trevino creates an intimate space to share her perspective with the spectators.

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SPATIAL RELATIONS, Act Without Words I (Winnipeg, Canada)

Act Without Words 1 by Samuel Beckett is presented by Winnipeg theatre company Spatial Relations. Directed by Ann Hodges, Act without Words I features Stephen Lawson (formerly of Primus Theatre) as a man in a desert struggling to make sense of the strange occurrences around him. Using elements of vaudeville and clown, this short, silent play illuminates the futility and absurdity of human existence.

 

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