Fornes' WICKETS at 3LD Arts Begins January 4

Trick Saddle invites you to climb on board for the World Premiere of Wickets, Jenny Rogers' and Clove Galilee's high-flying adaptation  Marie Irene Fornes groundbreaking 1977 drama Fefu and Her Friends. Performances are at the 3LD Art & Technology Center (80 Greenwich Street at Rector Street which is accessible from the 1 train at Rector Street).

Wickets is Fofefu and Her Friends at 30,000 feet. The audience is seated within a specially constructed airplane with action taking place all around -- in the aisles, galleys and lavatories of a trans-Atlantic flight. Immersed in an identity crisis, eight 1970's stewardesses find themselves split between the private self and the public persona in this radical adaptation of Fornes' mystery play.  Wicket Air Flight 1971 takes off just prior to the crest of the 2nd Wave of feminism and lands squarely in our present day struggles in the workplace.

Wickets runs from January 8, 2009 through January 25, 2009. Previews begin January 4, 2009.

Created and conceived by Rogers and Galilee, Wickets was developed through Mabou Mines Suite/Space and the HERE Arts Center Artist Residency Program (HARP) with overall support from INTAR Theater. Adapted and designed by Jenny Rogers, with choreography by Clove Galilee and an original rock soundtrack by LA's Jetliner (fronted by lead singer Adam Paskowitz, formerly of The Flys), the production features Katie Apicella, Lee Eddy, Jessica Jolly, Christianna Nelson, Maria Parra, Kristen Rozanski, Jona Tuck and Elizabeth Wakehouse with a special appearance by Lucas Steele (Broadway's The Threepenny Opera with Alan Cumming and Cyndi Lauper) as a singing angel. The production also features a sneak peek of Rogers' new video work Perfect Surf - as the in-flight movie!

An artistic associate with Mabou Mines, Clove Galilee's work has been presented in New York at the Public Theater, The Performing Garage, St Ann's Warehouse, PS1/ MOMA, The Flea, and NYU's  Skirball Center. She is a TCG New Generations Fellow and a Princess Grace Foundation-USA Fellowship recipient. In 2005, she collaborated with Basil Twist, Ushio Torikai and Lee Breuer on Mabou Mines' Red Beads. She has been commissioned by New York Theater Ballet to create a new work based on James Joyce's The Dead.

Jenny Rogers was recently awarded a NYSCA Film, Media, & New Technology Grant for Perfect Surf.  She has exhibited her videos in numerous venues including PS 1 / MOMA , the Herzliya Museum for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. She has also exhibited in film festivals throughout the world including Feminale: 12 "International Women's Film Festival"in Cologne Germany; Bimovie 11-International Film Festival in Munich, Out Takes - New Zealand, and the Frameline Festival - San Francisco's Lesbian & Gay Film Festival.

 

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