Late Night Theatre Company Presents CORPUS INTERRUPTUS

By: Mar. 12, 2019
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Late Night Theatre Company, UH M?noa's student theatre organization, presents Corpus Interruptus, a devised theatrical experience with no script, no fiction, and no rules, exploring our bodies and identities in 2019. It will play in the Earle Ernst Lab Theatre on April 6, 12, and 13 at 10:00pm and April 7 at 7:30pm. Tickets range from $5-10 and are sold at the Kennedy Theatre Box Office one hour before curtain.

Corpus Interruptus is based on the personal experiences and artistic interpretations of its cast, made up entirely of female, trans, genderfluid and nonbinary performers, as they navigate life in Hawai?i and America in 2019. Through movement, song, dance, scripted drama, and much more, Corpus Interruptus asks such questions as, "Who are we?" "Do you belong if you don't look like your family?" "How are systems of power imprinted on bodies?" and, "Will we ever feel safe?"

For the past forty years, devised theatre has sidestepped the potentially oversimplified conventions of traditional dramatic theatre by conveying a theatre of presence. Addressing political issues of the day with fragments offered meant to provoke and engage, rather than metaphor intended to transport audiences to a realm of fiction, this form of theatre offers a unique approach to today's most pressing issues.

Corpus Interruptus is an entirely original work by eight female, trans, genderfluid and nonbinary performers, facilitated and directed by Katherine Altman, a Directing MFA student at UH, and recent winner of KCACTF's regional directing award, with eight years of experience as a theatre instructor. Perplexed by the lack of scripts that explore the realities of gender in today's America, Altman sought to create a piece of theatre formed directly from the voices that aren't being heard right now. Controversial, provocative, introspective and contemporary, you're sure to laugh, think and rethink contemporary ideas about identity through the individual lenses of the experiences of their performers.

Late Night Theatre is an entirely student-run theatre company, part of the Theatre and Dance Association student organization at UHM. Late Night's mission is to provide students opportunities in directing, designing, playwriting, choreographing, performing, and theatre management. Late Night seeks to explore, to entertain, and to excite; to produce challenging theatre that is not

otherwise available to Honolulu audiences; and to pursue innovation with the aim of creating excellent student-driven performance.

Tickets for Corpus Interruptus are available at the door beginning one hour before the curtain opens on performance nights.



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