Incubator Arts Project Presents MEDEA & MEDEA/FOR MEDEA, 2/17-26

On the last precipice of Civilization, the myth of Medea meets Thelma and Louise, Cavalli and Rebecca West in a multimedia mashup featuring soundscape by Kristin Worrall. medea and medea/for medea uses a variety of ancient and contemporary materials to establish new boundaries for storytelling and mythmaking in a world dominated by mediated images and information. It attempts to break down cultural and dramatic expectations and create space for audiences to experience moments and episodes of connection and recognition with unusual juxtapositions, beauty, and dissonance.

red handle creates and presents live performances that crash through boundaries of genre, storytelling, media, and audience.  Aiming to expose the processes of creation and performance for their audiences in order to examine myth, story, and our methods of telling them.  Their focus is thus on mixing known performance texts with other forms and materials, creating hybrid mash-ups that include movement, music, opera, video, and other media.

Since 2006, red handle has created two performances at the Ontological-Hysteric Incubator: iph.then was a re-imagining of the myth of Iphigenia amongst the Taurians that incorporated versions of the story by Euripides and Goethe, music from the Gluck opera, and a live chorus of 20 women.  In 2008 they created Yellow Electras, a mash-up of Sophocles, Strauss, and Kandinsky. They are also in the process of producin, Orestes/West, which will have a workshop at Ramapo College in June 2011.

Peter A. Campbell: Directing work includes the NYC Premiere of Sarah Kane's Phaedra's Love (The Chocolate Factory), Samuel Beckett's Play (Under St. Marks), Gertrude Stein's Play I[-III] (The Red Room), and his own adaptations Yellow Electras and iph.then at the Ontological-Hysteric Incubator and Ajax at The Fall Collection (La Tea).  He has also worked as dramaturg for director Jay Scheib on The Medea (La Mama) and Women Dreamt Horses (P.S. 122).  He is an Associate Professor of Theater at Ramapo College.

Kristin Worrall (Sound Design/Composition) Currently sound designer and performer for Nature Theater of Oklahoma (Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper), her collaborations include Life and Times, No Dice, Rambo Solo, Poetics: A Ballet Brut, Fragment (for which Ms. Worrall received a grant from A.R.T. New York for sound design), Kasimir and Karoline, Three Sisters, and Irresistible Targets.  Other theater credits include The Cenci (Hotel Savant), The Archery Contest: A Radio Play (ArtRadio PS One/P.S. 122), and A Parsifal (Hotel Savant).  She is an alumni of Lincoln Center Director's Lab and Robert Wilson's Watermill Center and a 2008 Henry Hewes Design Award nominee.

Sylvia Bofill (Writer) Recent work as playwright/director includes Insideout (Victoria Espinosa Theater, P.R., 2010),  Muchas Palabras (UPR Theater 2009), Windows (Intar Theater, NY 2006).  Schomburg Visiting Artist Residency (Playwriting) at Ramapo College where she collaborated with the Theater, Spanish and Latin American Studies Departments.  She teaches Playwriting and Appreciating Theater at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.

Laylage Courie (Voice) is a writer and performing artist.  She has performed her work, including tea parties for voice and debris, power-point presentations, and surreal cabaret, all over New York, in the South, and abroad.  She works in the Roy Hart voice tradition.  A link to new work and a work archive is online at www.luminouswork.org.

Laura Heidinger (Performer) is an actress and director from New York City. She has previously worked with Red Handle playing Electra in Yellow Electras. Other New York credits include Grushe in Caucasian Chalk Circle (PL115 at Mabou Mines), Belise in The Learned Ladies (Gallery Players) and Tecmessa in Ajax (Ohio Theatre).

Maeve Hoglund (Performer) Her artistry spans from vocal performance in classical, jazz and gospel genres to contemporary and improvisatory Theatre Projects. She is a founding member of an intensive training program with celebrated Soprano Lauren Flanigan in conjunction with American Opera Projects and members of the Siti Company.  She recently earned a Masters of Music in Vocal performance from the Manhattan School of Music.