SOSE Holds COMPANY CREATION FESTIVAL, 1/12-3/6

By: Dec. 27, 2010
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Award-winning theatre company Son of Semele Ensemble (SOSE) will host the first annual Company Creation Festival, an 8-week festival of new work generated by Los Angeles ensembles. The 2011 festival will present work by Psittacus Productions, title3, Spinable Productions and Urban Ensemble in repertory from January 12 to March 6.

Curated and co-produced by Matthew McCray, Son of Semele's Artistic Director, the festival aims to foster new collaborations by providing resources to vibrant ensemble companies in Los Angeles. The selection process for this year's festival was an online application that allowed for proposals to range from works-in-progress to conceptual ideas. Over the past three months, SOSE has provided the festival with over 600 rehearsal hours, administrative support, as well as designers and other artistic personnel.

Each production will play for 10 performances between January 12 and March 6, 2011.  The festival productions include:

Full Blown
(Spinable Productions)
A travel tale about two desperate stow-aways and their need to bond, told though song, dance, film and a variety of performance styles.

Shadow Anthropology:  A Post-9/11 Comedy
(Urban Ensemble)
A poor Afghan family struggles to save its farm as a warlord, U.S. contractors, and bawdy shadow puppets battle it out for who controls not only the story, but also the land. Support for Shadow Anthropology provided by Puffin Foundation Ltd. and California State University, Northridge.

99 Ways To Fuck A Swan
(title3)
A long, long time ago, Leda makes love to a swan.
3,000 years later, Michelangelo paints a picture.
350 years later, Rudolph buys it.
130 years later, Dave and Fiona stand in a museum, gazing at what remains.  Set in a world of bizarre romantic obsessions and everyday ineptitude, 99 Ways to Fuck A Swan explores the dark corners of desire, and the eternal mysteries of love.

Cyclops: A Rock Opera
(Psittacus Productions)
Written 2,400 years ago, Cyclops is the only fully intact Greek Satyr Play in existence. Psittacus Productions drags this play kicking and screaming into the modern age, and presents it as an epic Rock Opera. Last year, Psittacus Productions presented the critically-acclaimed and LA Weekly Award-nominated piece A Tale Told By An Idiot.


About SOSE
Son of Semele Ensemble was profiled in 2004 as one of the "hippest, hottest, most innovative theatre troupes in the U.S." by American Theatre, and featured on the magazine's cover. Over the past ten years the company's work has received 17 regional awards and award nominations including the Ovation Award, the L.A. Weekly Theatre Award and the NAACP Theatre Award. For the past three years, SOSE has been developing its own company-devised plays, one of which was created in collaboration with Center Theatre Group. SOSE's collaboration with L.A. playwright Oliver Mayer, Wallowa, will open in April, 2011. For additional information on SOSE visit www.sonofsemele.org.

Tickets
Festival Passes are $40 (one admission to each production). Tickets to a single performance are $20. All tickets can be purchased through the SOSE website at www.sonofsemele.org. Single tickets can also be purchased one half hour prior to curtain at the box office. Son of Semele Theater is located in Silver Lake at 3301 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA  90004 (one mile west of Alvarado).



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