ARDOR DOODY And THE JIM CROW PROJECT Among STC's Free 2009/10 Season

The Subjective Theater Company (STC) is proud to announce its 2009/2010 season, which will be primarily hosted by Horse Trade Theater Group, as STC is one of its resident theatre companies. 

This upcoming season, STC will be opening a window onto the disenfranchised fringes of society.  Spotlighting carpet-bagging stock brokers, clowns in prison, musicals on how to perform in blackface, and the zombies of gentrification, STC will offer a fun-filled riotous season jam packed with slapstick, satire, musicals…and will launch its newest division – STC Films! STC invites the world-wearied public to lick their wounds and enjoy a laugh.

STC will launch the 2009/2010 season with the world premieres of two original shorts that will run together, without an intermission (run time will not exceed a total of 80 minutes) at The Red Room for a limited 6 performances from September 8th-13th.  September 8-12th will run at 8:00 pm, and one matinee will be held Sunday, September 13th at 3:00 pm. These plays are:

Ardor Doody - an original short play coproduced by Mighty Little Productions and written by Mighty Little’s Lucile Scott and STC’s Jesse Cameron Alick, to be directed by STC’s Steven Gillenwater.

Big Rock Candy Mountain - an original musical, with the book by STC’s Julia Holleman, music by STC’s Emmy award-winning Resident Designer, Lucas Cantor. Lyrics by Julia Holleman and Lucas Cantor.

Ardor Doody: In a cold prison cell, in an anonymous totalitarian country, two political prisoners debate guilt vs. innocence, happiness vs. productivity, honesty vs. betrayal, art vs. duty…all while wearing big clown shoes and rubber noses.  Ardor Doody is a satirical comedy about two circus clowns and one mime fighting the government the only way they know how - but which one will have the last laugh?

Big Rock Candy Mountain:  Inspired by the popular American standard of the same name, Big Rock Candy Mountain invites us into the world of a hedge fund manager and his wife as they ride the rails in search of jobs. Cushioned from any real hardship by their wealth, they lament their fate while trying to avoid the licorice handcuffs of the ineffectual SEC.  Big Rock Candy Mountain is a biting musical satire about corporate bailouts and the eschewed realities of the wealthy.

In December of 2009, STC’s third production will be the world premiere of The Jim Crow Project (Working Title) where we invite the audience to join us for a marvelous, full-length musical instructional about the art of the minstrel show! Replete with comedy and pathos, mingled with tears and jokes and songs from antebellum America, reality television, and original instructionals like, "How to Identify The Common Negro Coon", and that ever popular game show - "Tom, Coon, Mulatto, Mammy or Buck!?", The Jim Crow Project will explore minstrelsy, one of America’s original art forms in a fresh and modern way.  Grab some blackface and come wash your racist soul clean and white!  With Direction by Donya Washington, music and lyrics by Justin Levine, and book by Jesse Cameron Alick, The Jim Crow Project promises to be an educational and entertaining time!

May - June: STC’s CoLAB

STC will produce another full-length play in the spring of 2010.  This show is yet to be conceived as it will be a product of STC’s CoLab, which is an original STC program that is dedicated to creating new pieces through a rigorously collaborative and organic process. A group of resident actors/writers commit to nine-months of creative development in which a show is created from its concept to its final performance.  In the beginning of the procedure, a broad subject is chosen by the group; group members then research, write about, and explore it through structured rehearsals and improvisation. After several months, the group narrows the focus of the piece and each member undertakes to write a specific character and/or facet of the subject.   Resident playwright, Julia Holleman will once again be serving as head writing with resident director Jeffrey Whitted directing.

Reading Series

The Subjective Theatre Company’s Reading Series provides a forum for playwrights to develop their work in a collaborative working environment by providing opportunities to aspiring playwrights, directors, and actors.  STC’s Reading Series has been proved a successful spring board as during its first season, Mel Nieves’ Iraq: WAC made its way to a west coast premiere in Los Angeles while STC gave Paul Mullin’s An American Book of the Dead its east coast premiere in the Rubin Museum of Art’s Brainwave Festival.  Now moving into its second season, the Reading Series will present monthly readings at Under St. Marks as part of STC’s residency with the Horse Trade Theater Group.

This reading series will run every second Monday from October 2009-April of 2010 (with a break in December).  

Subjective Films

On November 2, 2009 STC will present Scorpio’s Night Out 2: Day of the Zombies a launch party for Subjective Theatre Company’s newest division: Subjective Films, which is a film production branch of STC with Lucas Cantor at the helm as Executive Producer.  At this party there will be a screening of Subjective Film’s current project, Handsome Zombies (directed by Jeffrey Whitted, written by Jesse Cameron Alick and Julia Holleman) which is a socio-political zombie movie about gentrification in Brooklyn, that will be released online in a series of webisodes.

Subjective Theatre Company (Artistic Director, Jesse Cameron Alick)

Subjective Theatre Company’s mission is to produce a wide range of politically and socially relevant theatre for free.  STC is founded on the principles that art is not a commodity, that culture should be without class structures, that art is without boundaries, and that theatre should always be available to everyone.  STC is guided by a philosophy of accessibility and the belief that theatre plays a vital role in the development of individuals and communities. STC is dedicated to cultivating an environment where quality theatre can exist for people of every economic and social background.
 
Mighty Little Productions (Scout Durwood, Adriana Mena, Lucile Scott, Patrice Rankine)

Mighty Little Productions (MLP) is an award-winning collaboration based theatre company dedicated to the production of original narrative work with an emphasis on social change thorugh the spirit of levity. MLP is founded on the notion that through collaboration “we”, as a collective, become bigger than the sum of our parts. This summer, MLP will present two full-length plays at festivals around New York City: Monroe Bound in the Midtown International Festival and V-Love at the Fresh Fruit Festival. MLP is also involved in the production of a number of video shorts as well as live sketch, variety and burlesque shows.

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