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Written and performed by Miranda Huba, Candy Tastes Nice follows the story of a young girl determined to auction off her virginity. What starts off as a simple bid to re-pay student loans turns into a mass media frenzy, and soon countries are bidding against each other in order to obtain the girl's elusive innocence. Directed by Shannon Sindelar, Candy Tastes Nice is an investigation of our society's ease with women's exploitation in our pop-culture world and our acceptance of a skewed view of sexuality as it is portrayed in the media. With design by Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew and Bobby McElver.
Miranda Huba: Miranda is an award winning playwright and actress originally from Canada. She is a founding member of TigerMilk Collective (www.tigermilkcollective.com). Plays include: The History Of My Domestication (commissioned by Playwrights Theatre Centre), Hospital City (Video In Studios) andThe Tour (Vancouver and Victoria Fringe). Recently her play, House of KOSA, received its world premiere in Canada and her latest play Grounded: A Play in Six Airports is being translated and promoted in Germany as part of the publication New Canadian Drama. Most recently she was invited to Vancouver to co-create the site specific theatre piece You are Invited with HIVE 3 and the Cultural Olympiad. She now lives in New York City.
Shannon Sindelar is a writer, director and theater producer from Washington state. Recent directing work includes: The Assember Dilator (31 Down at P.S. 122), the New York premiere of Tennessee Williams' The Remarkable Rooming House of Mme. LeMonde (Target Margin/The Bushwick Starr), and Jason Grote's A Christmas Carol (The Brick Theater). She is the director and co-writer for 31 Down projects (www.31down.org), and recently toured to Seattle with the company to present The Scream Contest (P.S. 122 Off-Site at Bumbershoot). She is the Managing and Programming Director of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, and was recently named one of nytheatre.com's People of the Year.CANDY TASTES NICE Wednesday, July 7th-Saturday, July 10th at 7p.m. Additional performance Saturday, July 10th at 2p.m. Ticketing info: General $15 @ HERE 145 6th Ave. (Enter on Dominick, 1 Block South of Spring) For Tickets & Information: here.org or call 212-352-3101
This production is being presented through the Summer Sublet Series, part of HEREstay, HERE's curated rental program, which provides artists with subsidized space and equipment, as well as technical and administrative support. Since 1993, the OBIE-winning HERE has been a premier arts organization in NYC and a leader in the field of new, hybrid performance work. Under leadership of Founding Artistic Director Kristin Marting and Producing Director Kim Whitener, HERE has served over 12,000 emerging to mid-career artists developing work that does not fit a conventional programming agenda. Work presented at HERE has garnered 16 OBIE awards, an OBIE grant for artistic achievement, three Drama Desk nominations, two Berrilla Kerr Awards, three NY Innovative Theatre Awards, an Edwin Booth Award and a Pulitzer Prize nomination. HERE proudly supports artists at all stages in their careers through full productions, artist residency programs, festivals and subsidized performance and rehearsal space. Work at HERE is curated based on the strength and uniqueness of the artist's vision. HERE's Artist Residency Program (HARP) provides development, commissions and full production for up to 20 artists over one-to-three years. In 2005, with the support of the FJC, a foundation of donor advised funds, Lower Manhattan Development Corporation and the City of New York, HERE purchased its long-time home as part of a five-year"Secure HERE's Future" campaign. With full-scale renovations to the space concluding in June 2008, thanks to generous support from the City of New York, HERE is poised to continue and expand its role as a downtown haven for the finest emerging art. Offering a comfortable, eclectic setting for artists and audiences alike, HERE features a new café and two state-of-the-art performance spaces.
