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MicroFestUSA: Los Angeles
One Festival. Three Cities.
From October 2010 through January 2011, the Network of Ensemble Theaters (NET) is hosting a triptych of MicroFestivals across the United States designed to build a national conversation around ensemble theatermaking. Presented in partnership with the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA), these two-and-a-half day "MicroFests" highlight ensemble performances and practices, each centering on a specific theme.
MicroFest: LA will investigate how ensembles are creating new work. Activities will be centered at the Atwater Village Theater in Los Angeles, December 3-5, 2010. Guest Curator Steven Leigh Morris, theater Critic-at-Large for the LA Weekly, programmed a diverse array of ensembles at varying stages of development.
**PERFORMANCE TIMES/DATES ARE AS FOLLOWS **
Note: single-ticket buyers, please review this section carefully and be sure that you purchase for the show/date/time that you intend to.
Friday, December 3, 8:30pm
-- Clark and I, Somewhere in Connecticut (Theater Replacement)
-- Clown Town City Limits (Two Headed Dog)
Saturday, December 4, 2:00pm
-- Clark and I, Somewhere in Connecticut (Theater Replacement)
-- Clown Town City Limits (Two Headed Dog)
Saturday, December 4, 8:30pm
-- Sunoh! Tell Me, Sister (Post Natyam Collective) & Stranger Things (The Ghost Road Company) **this is a double bill, you will see both shows**
-- Clover and Cactus (Watts Village Theater Company) & Untitled [Ameryanski] Project (Critical Mass Performance Group) **this is a double bill, you will see both shows**
Sunday, December 4, 1:00pm
-- Sunoh! Tell Me, Sister (Post Natyam Collective) & Stranger Things (The Ghost Road Company) **this is a double bill, you will see both shows**
-- Clover and Cactus (Watts Village Theater Company) & Untitled [Ameryanski] Project (Critical Mass Performance Group) **this is a double bill, you will see both shows**
**COMPLETE SHOW DESCRIPTIONS**
CLARK AND I SOMEWHERE IN CONNECTICUT (Full Production)
Rumble Productions & Theatre Replacement
Performances: Fri Dec 3 @ 8:30pm; Sat Dec 4 @ 2:00pm
In 2005, Vancouver theatre artist James Long found a collection of 7 photo albums and travel journals in the alley near his East Vancouver home. The collection, complete with detailed captions and letters, documents a family's history between 1950 and 1987, and includes everything from birth notices to a full eulogy to the archivist's Pomeranian, Mandy. A team of collaborators went in search of the origins of these books in the fall of 2007 and ran into, among many things, questions surrounding the legality and morality of working with found materials. What started as a simple trip to the country immediately carried the creators on narrative jags across property, oceans, and beyond.
CLOWN TOWN CITY LIMITS (Full Production)
Two Headed Dog
Performances: Fri Dec 3 @ 8:30pm; Sat Dec 4 @ 2:00pm
Clowntown City Limits brings together a trio of down and out clowns living in a home that's not the worst place in the world, but "worst place adjacent." Big Bugs, Corky, and Adolph manage to pay a back-handed tribute to the world of clowns while turning it upside down and inside out, revealing the darkness inherent in every black-velvet clown painting that ever hung over a frightened child's bed.
SUNOH! TELL ME, SISTER (Work-In-Progress)
The Post Natyam Collective
Performances: Sat Dec 3 @ 8:30pm; Sun Dec 5 @ 1:00pm
"SUNOH! Tell me, Sister" grapples with the historical legacy of the courtesans of the Indian subcontinent, bringing to life subversive stories of erotic power and women's resistance. A duet integrating classical and contemporary Indian dance, theater, original music, and video, the production is a transnational choreographic collaboration between members of the Post Natyam Collective and is being created over the internet through a long distance, internet-based, creative process.
STRANGER THINGS (Work-In-Progress)
Ghost Road Theatre Company
Performances: Sat Dec 4 @ 8:30pm; Sun Dec 5 @ 1:00pm
Inspired by the works and ideas of renowned existential philosopher Albert Camus, "Stranger Things" utilizes black comedy, original music, and graphic novel visuals to delve into the emotional undercurrent of the isolated individual. In "Stranger Things" a worldly, estranged son returns to his rural home to reconnect with his remaining family. Will his reluctance to reveal himself prove to be his undoing, or will he find the courage and humility to rejoin his forsaken family and repair old wounds? Ghost Road is working with award-winning composer David O to compose and perform original music.
CLOVER AND CACTUS (Work-In-Progress)
Watts Village Theatre
Performances: Sat Dec 4 @ 8:30pm; Sun Dec 5 @ 1:00pm
In the late 1840's approximately 200 United States soldiers defected from the American army to fight for Mexico in the Mexican American War. These mostly Irish soldiers came to be known as Los San Patricios (the St. Patrick's Battalion). Clover & Cactus, set the night before the final battle of the war, sharply explores the historical issues that helped draw a group of strangers from opposite sides of the world together, discovering common bonds, and the worth found therein.
UNTITLED [AMERYKANSKI] PROJECT (Work-In-Progress)
Critical Mass Performance Group
Performances: Sat Dec 4 @ 8:30pm; Sun Dec 5 @ 1:00pm
A new, multi-disciplinary performance piece, which explores the connections and collisions of mythic American ideals, with Poland's epic struggle for independence, through the transmission of ideas across time and space, and individual acts that shift the avalanche of history.
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LocationAtwater Village Theatre
3269 Casitas Avenue
Atwater Village, CA 90039
United States
Categories
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: No |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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