Friday, September 30, 2011
End of Festival
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Channel One
Creative Advisor Richard Crawford
I Have Never Done This Before
Created and Performed by Joel Jeske
Joel took a big leap into the unknown. He performed what he says is all material that he has never done before. Joel tells the audience that the guidelines for the show require an attitude of absolute cooperation on their part. And the audience accepts the rules. He gruffly tells someone to get onstage and down on his knees. He does it, only to be treated as a music stand and castigated for looking up. He tugs three people up to sit onstage, hands them clipboards and markers, waits to see what will happen. It is fresh and feels dangerous. They do not know what is expected of them or what will happen next. Joel does not attempt make them feel comfortable.
Their looks to each other, the audience, to Joel, end up seeming like well rehearsed choreography.Friday, September 23, 2011
Cabaret!
Sunday, September 18, 2011
TiVo La Resistance!
Created by Logic LIMITED LTD
Performed by Chris Arruda, Sandi Carroll, and Brad Fraizer
Additional Direction by Matt Steiner and Jane Nichols
What fun! Don't miss this one--your last chance is Sunday at 3 pm.
The secret meeting of the The Resistance has assembled. Our three leaders, each more inept than the next, attempt to organize themselves and us. And the secret is that the meeting is secret.
They sport no red noses, but make no mistake, these clowns are perfect idiots (and I mean that in the best of ways). I apologize for the list that follows, but it seems the simplest way to let you know how satisfying it was to watch this show. They:
- have clearly defined status--the classic one, two, three
- complete one task (although they do get distracted) before going on to the next.
- constantly get in their own way
- misunderstand each other and themselves
- try really hard and then complicate their mistakes
- find creative solutions to their problems
- react emotionally and then escalate their emotions
- share their entire stage life with the audience
- include us in the action
- have impeccable timing
- breathe
- HAVE THE BEST TIME OF THEIR LIVES
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Morro and Jasp--GONE WILD
Directed and Dramaturged by Byron Laviolette
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Bezinkule
Written and Performed by Christopher Rozzi
Directed by Tasha Gordon-Solmon