Thursday, July 7, 2016
The Kraine Theatre, NYC
Theater in Asylum's Project series brings together new short works unified around a single theme. The PRIMARIES Project brought together artists to ask:
Hillary?
Bernie?
Trump?
Gary?
Jill?
What are the primaries?
What does it all mean?
Hillary?
Bernie?
Trump?
Gary?
Jill?
What are the primaries?
What does it all mean?
Poll
Created and performed by Robert A. K. Gonyo |
Understated Foreign Coming of Age
Written by Sarah Gancher Directed by Jake Beckhard Performed by Marlowe Holden as Julia and Xavier Reminick as Zoltan |
Shots Fired
Text from the 2016 Verizon Strike Footnoted script available here Created by Jake Beckhard, Paul Bedard, Amanda Ghosh, Samantha Keogh, Joe Marx, Katie Palmer Dramaturgy, fact-checking, and script footnoting by Samantha Keogh Directed by Paul Bedard Performed by Jessie Atkinson, Kayla Catan, Joe Marx, Kate McMorran, and Katie Palmer |
The Nominee
Written by Joe Breen Directed by Ran Xia Performed by Vanessa Felix, Aida Leguizamon, and Sarah Young |
ARTILLIERSʼ GYM EXPERIMENT ON CURRENT POPULIST RESPONSES TO AMERICAN SOCIAL INEQUALITY, USING THE FRAME OF THE COAL HEAVERSʼ SCENE FROM THREE TRANSLATIONS OF AUGUST STRINDBERGʼS “A DREAM PLAY” AND SEVERAL PRIMARY CANDIDATES OF THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Text by Matthew Minnicino, Caryl Churchill, Project Gutenberg translators, and the Artilliers Gym Ensemble Directed by Jake Beckhard Performed by Serena Berman, Trey Fillmore, Michael Galligan, and Anna Clare Kerr |
Trump Jokes
Text from the 2016 Presidential Campaign Footnoted script available at here Created by Jessie Atkinson, Paul Bedard, Sarah Eismann, Amanda Ghosh, Samantha Keogh Dramaturgy, fact-checking, and script footnoting by Samantha Keogh Directed by Paul Bedard Performed by Paul Bedard, Kayla Catan, Sarah Eismann, Joe Marx, Kate McMorran, Katie Palmer |
The PRIMARIES Project included two companion pieces to TIA's The Debates:
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Theater in Asylum (TIA) is a New York-based theater company founded in 2010 to challenge and empower our community. TIA joyfully pursues a rigorous research and an ensemble-driven approach to theater-making. We create performances to investigate our past, interpret our present, and imagine our future. We prize space to process, space to question—asylum—for ourselves and our community.
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