A Little Thunder Presents THE ANIMALS

The Animals: A Little Thunder Production to be held Friday, April 9, 2010 - 10:30 pm at Club Oberon: 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA. This is nothing like a carnival; this is electro-bloody-death-pop.

THE EVENT:

The Animals is an event comprised of live electro-pop music, huge video/animation, three insane dancers, ten animals and the ten epic deaths of one boy, by each of them. Based out of the electro-pop album "The Animals" (available on iTunes), this event explores deterioration through a fast-paced, narrative performance with dance on and off-stage. It is a bloody, outrageous evolution from all that is lost (by means of limbs and eyes and any sense of self) to what is finally realized.

THE CREATORS:

ADAM STONE (Composer/Performer/Writer/Video) recently collaborated with Mike Donahue as Sound Designer on Stairs to the Roof for the A.R.T. Institute. His recent work in the Boston area also includes Composer/Sound Designer for A.R.T. Institute's A Winter's Tale, and Sound and Video Design for John Kuntz's The Salt Girl at the Boston Playwright's Theatre, directed by David R. Gammons. In 2009 at the Williamstown Theatre Festival Adam directed Dario Fo's Alice in Wonderless Land, Maurice Level's The Final Kiss, and Mark Ravenhill's Armegeddon. (www.iamadamstone.com)

"[Adam Stone] has come up with a feast of synth pop songs: bright melodies; big bodied solos; hilarious patter...The songs are amazingly clever and funny, so funny that every one was punctuated by hoots irrepressible audience laughter."
- Julie Wittman, Westword (for Seal. Stamp. Send. Bang.)

MIKE DONAHUE (Director) was born in Boston, went to Harvard, and recently directed Stairs to the Roof for the A.R.T. Institute as part of Diane Paulus's America: Boom, Bust, and Baseball series. The Coupling Heuristic (at the Abingdon, for the Drama League DirectorFest); Bully to You (Walkerspace, Williamstown); The Egg-Layers (Williamstown). Other credits include: Grey Gone (toured to NYC, TN, CT); The Who's Tommy, God Is A DJ, The Bacchae, Recess (Summer Cabaret); Peer Gynt, Titus Andronicus, Grace or the Art of Climbing, Bibles and Candy (Yale School of Drama); Electronic City, Brand (Yale Cabaret). Artistic Director, Yale Summer Cabaret (2007, 2008); Tennessee Williams Fellowship (2009); Opera America Director-Designer Showcase Award (2009); Fulbright Artist in Berlin (2008-9); 2009 Dramaleague Fall Directing Fellow. BA, Harvard University (Louis Sudler Prize for Artistic Excellence); MFA, Yale School of Drama. (www.mikemdonahue.com)

"Donahue elevates ‘Stairs' to new heights... The freshness and originality that is consistently present in the production is able to make an old and somewhat obscure play feel relevant and new again."

- Nicholas D. Cuse, The Harvard Crimson (For Stairs to the Roof)

DATE/TICKET INFORMATION:
Friday, April 9, 2010 - 10:30pm
$15 General Admission
http://theanimalsevent.com/
http://www.cluboberon.com/shows.html#animals
Club Oberon: 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA

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