AREA at the Bushwick Starr
PLEASE NOTE: THIS SHOW HAS BEEN CANCELLED
In AREA we follow a girl as she enters an environment of images that are at times alluring and sometimes shocking. Although she experiences moments of terror she does not turn back, but remains in search of some unattainable end. As her journey continues, we watch as her past begins to fade obscured by the lens of this new world.
Then a crime is committed.
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Photos (All credit lukiacostello.com):
Press photos available for download at:
http://www.lukiacostello.com/tornspace/images.html
Reviews:
'It points the theater in a new direction... a momentous achievement at a time when everyone believes that originality has keeled over and died.'
- The Buffalo News
'AREA makes the smallest observations mythic through movement of people and objects in sculptured space by use of light, sound and images '
- Theatre Alliance of Buffalo
'Dan Shanahan, Buffalo's most prodigious avant-garde impresario... has a talent for creating striking video and stage pictures... think film noir meets Artaud.'
- Anthony Chase, Artvoice
'The haunting nature of the production is augmented by video and sound design... incorporating alternatively violent and beautiful still photography...'
- The Buffalo News
'...hypnotizing in its intensity...'
- Artvoice
Directions to the Bushwick Starr:
Take the L Train to Jefferson Street
Exit front of train
Walk against traffic on Starr Street
The Theater is 1/2 a block on the right
(approx. 20 minutes from Manhattan)
or:
http://www.thebushwickstarr.org/DIRECTIONS.html
MORE INFO:
Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Torn-Space-Theater/237322260577
Phone: 716-812-5733
Running Time: 70 minutes
In AREA we follow a girl as she enters an environment of images that are at times alluring and sometimes shocking. Although she experiences moments of terror she does not turn back, but remains in search of some unattainable end. As her journey continues, we watch as her past begins to fade obscured by the lens of this new world.
Then a crime is committed.
----------------------------
Photos (All credit lukiacostello.com):
Press photos available for download at:
http://www.lukiacostello.com/tornspace/images.html
Reviews:
'It points the theater in a new direction... a momentous achievement at a time when everyone believes that originality has keeled over and died.'
- The Buffalo News
'AREA makes the smallest observations mythic through movement of people and objects in sculptured space by use of light, sound and images '
- Theatre Alliance of Buffalo
'Dan Shanahan, Buffalo's most prodigious avant-garde impresario... has a talent for creating striking video and stage pictures... think film noir meets Artaud.'
- Anthony Chase, Artvoice
'The haunting nature of the production is augmented by video and sound design... incorporating alternatively violent and beautiful still photography...'
- The Buffalo News
'...hypnotizing in its intensity...'
- Artvoice
Directions to the Bushwick Starr:
Take the L Train to Jefferson Street
Exit front of train
Walk against traffic on Starr Street
The Theater is 1/2 a block on the right
(approx. 20 minutes from Manhattan)
or:
http://www.thebushwickstarr.org/DIRECTIONS.html
MORE INFO:
Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Torn-Space-Theater/237322260577
Phone: 716-812-5733
Running Time: 70 minutes
Some Explicit Polaroids
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February 25, 26, 27 March 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, 20, 21
Adam Mickiewicz Dramatic Circle, 612 Fillmore Avenue, south of Broadway at Paderewski
All shows 8:00 p.m.
Students $12 General $20
Torn Space Theater continues its retrospective of contemporary British drama, building on our previous Western New York premieres of two plays by Sarah Kane and last season’s THE FASTEST CLOCK IN THE UNIVERSE by Philip Ridley.
The British theatre movement of the 1990’s that came to be known as “In-Yer-Face-Theatre” shook up what had become an otherwise cautious decade of playwriting. It renewed the position of the writer at the forefront of the theatre making process. Raw language and content relentlessly flung an edgy new energy at the disillusionment of heightened materialism and gave a cool and unsettling voice to Generation X.
Controversial British playwright Mark Ravenhill brought his own sensibilities to the movement and in SOME EXPLICIT POLAROIDS, his fifth play, he continues his explorations of human survival in the age of technology and hyper-consumerism, where the old guidelines of social cause and consciousness have slid into self obsession and lost identity. His brilliantly honed characters cross in unexpected ways as they reach out, clash and struggle for common ground.
In the play, hardcore activist Nick is back in the world after serving fifteen years in prison for the abduction and torture of a corporate opportunist. But he finds the world is a very different place - his once impassioned leftist girlfriend has abandoned her beliefs to become a mainstream politician, he gets involved with a group of 20-somethings lost in a culture swinging from self-help platitudes to self-medication, and his powerful nemesis from his reactionary past is desperately stalking him.
The sterling cast includes local veterans Phil Knoerzer, Kristen Tripp-Kelly, Richard Lambert, Kelly Meg Brennen, Kurt Guba and Nathan Winkelstein.
Adam Mickiewicz Dramatic Circle, 612 Fillmore Avenue, south of Broadway at Paderewski
All shows 8:00 p.m.
Students $12 General $20
Torn Space Theater continues its retrospective of contemporary British drama, building on our previous Western New York premieres of two plays by Sarah Kane and last season’s THE FASTEST CLOCK IN THE UNIVERSE by Philip Ridley.
The British theatre movement of the 1990’s that came to be known as “In-Yer-Face-Theatre” shook up what had become an otherwise cautious decade of playwriting. It renewed the position of the writer at the forefront of the theatre making process. Raw language and content relentlessly flung an edgy new energy at the disillusionment of heightened materialism and gave a cool and unsettling voice to Generation X.
Controversial British playwright Mark Ravenhill brought his own sensibilities to the movement and in SOME EXPLICIT POLAROIDS, his fifth play, he continues his explorations of human survival in the age of technology and hyper-consumerism, where the old guidelines of social cause and consciousness have slid into self obsession and lost identity. His brilliantly honed characters cross in unexpected ways as they reach out, clash and struggle for common ground.
In the play, hardcore activist Nick is back in the world after serving fifteen years in prison for the abduction and torture of a corporate opportunist. But he finds the world is a very different place - his once impassioned leftist girlfriend has abandoned her beliefs to become a mainstream politician, he gets involved with a group of 20-somethings lost in a culture swinging from self-help platitudes to self-medication, and his powerful nemesis from his reactionary past is desperately stalking him.
The sterling cast includes local veterans Phil Knoerzer, Kristen Tripp-Kelly, Richard Lambert, Kelly Meg Brennen, Kurt Guba and Nathan Winkelstein.
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TRACE
September 16-18, 24-25; October 1-2, 8-10
Adam Mickiewicz Dramatic Circle, 612 Fillmore Avenue
All shows 8:00 p.m. | Students $12, General $20
In the aftermath of destruction lie the traces of the past. A lingering residue of love, hate, hope, and potential cut short. Are we actors or victims of the destruction? What becomes of the spaces that we vacate and the actions we enact upon them?
Torn Space is proud to present a new production, completing their latest trilogy that included STIVALE and AREA. TRACE is a visual mediation of the dissolution of a relationship as two people grapple to keep the thread-worn weave of a union together. Who has taken Hope? Why has she disappeared? Is it possible to regain her or does a new course need to be set?
Adam Mickiewicz Dramatic Circle, 612 Fillmore Avenue
All shows 8:00 p.m. | Students $12, General $20
In the aftermath of destruction lie the traces of the past. A lingering residue of love, hate, hope, and potential cut short. Are we actors or victims of the destruction? What becomes of the spaces that we vacate and the actions we enact upon them?
Torn Space is proud to present a new production, completing their latest trilogy that included STIVALE and AREA. TRACE is a visual mediation of the dissolution of a relationship as two people grapple to keep the thread-worn weave of a union together. Who has taken Hope? Why has she disappeared? Is it possible to regain her or does a new course need to be set?