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Winter Onionland
October 11, 2010
THE ONION -- Americas Finest News Source Comes to Life in WINTER ONIONLAND at LEtage Cabaret Sunday, December 5, 2010.
The ranting and raving community voices from the opinion column of The Onion, America's Finest News Source come to life when 15 Philadelphia actors take the stage at L'Etage Cabaret on Sunday, December 5, 2010 to raise funds for The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium's first show of the 2011 season. WINTER ONIONLAND will have three performances at 6, 8 and 10 pm.
The 60-minute show, featuring all-new material, is a gathering of Philadelphia's liveliest actors bringing to life our favorite opinion columns from The Onion, the weekly satirical newspaper known for its outrageous and absurd humor. Performers/columnists scheduled to rant in WINTER ONIONLAND include: Liam Castellan as King Tut in Hey, Where Did All My Stuff Go?; Kate Black-Regan as Julie Shaw, do-it-yourself midwife in Upon Reflection, I May have Exaggerated My Skills in Midwifery; Sharon Geller as Darcy Wyatt, lamenting the state of America in Hang in There! You Live in the Richest Nation in the World. Also scheduled to perform in WINTER ONIONLAND are Ethan Lipkin, Kirsten Quinn, Charlotte Northeast, Mark Knight, Kati Kertesz, Jesse Delaney, John D'Alonzo, Sonja Robson, Bayard Walker and Jane Stojak.
Proceeds from WINTER ONIONLAND will benefit the first show of the The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortiums 2011 season the Philadelphia Premiere of the rarely-performed The Empire Builders (1959) by French novelist, poet, playwright, songwriter, jazz trumpeter, screenwriter and actor Boris Vian. The Empire Builders will run February 10 through 27, 2011 at Walnut Street Studio 5 in Philadelphia.
In a 2006 New Yorker article about Vian's life, Dan Halpern writes: Vian's novel, Le'cume des Jours (Foam of the Days) written in 1946, became one of the most popular books in all of twentieth-century French literature making Vian, in France, the sort of hero whom succeeding generations transform into an institution. Foam of the Days was largely ignored on its publication, but became a much-heralded book to the revolutionary generation of 1968: by 1962, it had sold only three thousand copies. By 1975, the figure had reached a million.
While he was alive, Vian was known less for his work than for being the epitome of Left Bank bohemia, standing at the center of its postwar rehabilitation after the trauma of the German Occupation. He was the presiding spirit of intellectual cafe society, and a close conspirator with Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.
Boris Vian's art is situated in a particular time and place it has been suggested that, without the Sartre of Nausea (La Nausee) and the Camus of The Stranger (L'Etranger), without the jazz of Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker, without Ionesco and Beckett's absurdism and without the American noir of McCoy, Cain and Goodis - themselves beloved by a French tradition enamoured equally by Existentialism as by Chandler - Vian wouldn't be the writer he was. Boris Vian to this day remains difficult to categorize, in part because he both was and wasnt a creature of his time. Fellow writer and friend Noel Arnaud wrote of Vian and his art, he lived ahead. He was, and remains, on the arc of the future.
The Empire Builders will feature Charlie Delmarcelle, Kirsten Quinn, Sonja Robson, Kate Black-Regan, Tomas Dura and Michael Dura. IRC Producing Artistic Director Tina Brock will direct. The designers on The Empire Builders include Meghan Jones, set design; Brian Strachan, costume design; Maria Shaplin, lighting design and Kevin Francis, sound design.
The Empire Builders will be the IRC's thirteenth production since the companys formation in 2006. The IRC celebrated the 100th anniversary of Eugene Ionesco's birth in 2009 by staging well-received productions of his classic plays The Lesson and The Chairs, and has earned critical attention by tackling difficult and rarely-produced works by fellow absurdist authors Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter and Christopher Durang. The IRC recently completed a critically-acclaimed sold out run of Jean Giraudoux's The Madwoman of Chaillot in September.
L'Etage Cabaret, the intimate 50-seat cabaret located above Beau Monde Creperie at 6th and Bainbridge Streets in Philadelphia will host RAW ONION: Winter Onionland. The benefit show will have three performances on Sunday, December 5, 2010 at 6:00 p.m., 8:00 p.m. and 10:00 pm. Doors open 30 minutes before curtain. Tickets are $20.00. Seating is very limited and reservations are recommended by calling 215.285.0472 or purchasing tickets in advance on the IRC website at www.idiopathicridiculopathyconsortium.org.
More for more information on and photos for WINTER ONIONLAND contact Tina Brock at 215.285.0472. The IRC is a 501C3 non-profit organization. The IRC is a member of the Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia, a proud participant in the Barrymore Awards, recognizing excellence in local theater and a member of The Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance.
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LocationL'Etage Cabaret
6th & Bainbridge Streets (above Beau Monde)
Philadelphia, PA 19147
United States
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| Minimum Age: 18 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: No |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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