Little Lord Presents BAMBIF*CKER/KAFFEHAUS, Now thru 3/21
By: BWW News Desk Mar. 05, 2015
Sure you cried when you watched the Walt Disney classic Bambi ... but how well do you know the real story behind everyone's favorite baby deer? In BAMBIF*CKER/KAFFEEHAUS, Little Lord uncovers just what lies behind those beloved doe eyes. Hint: lots of sex and coffee. As the title suggests, BAMBIF*CKER/KAFFEEHAUS is an over-caffeinated ride through coffeehouse culture, the birth of psychoanalysis, political Zionism, persecution complex, sexualized rabbits, The Sound of Music, and that furry deer for whom you shed tears as a child. Bambi, sex, Jews and coffee-what more could you want from a theatrical outing?
"BAMBIF*CKER/KAFFEEHAUS started because of porn," says Levinton, pointing out how Austrian Jewish writer Felix Salten, who wrote the fictitious memoirs of Viennese prostitute Josefine Mutzenbacher, also wrote the original Bambi story. "I didn't have a strong feeling about Bambi but these facts about Salten's output felt very Little Lord to me: a faulty nostalgia and a fuzzy shared cultural memory from childhood combined with something fucked up."
Staged in an immersive style, BAMBIF*CKER/KAFFEEHAUS audiences become café goers. $18 tickets provide your entrance into Little Lord's pop up coffee house, while $25 tickets get you Bambi Bucks to spend in the café on snacks, such as hot chocolate and toaster strudel. "We're doing the 1980s American version of the Viennese pastry which includes a lot of Little Debbies," says von Holt.
BAMBIF*CKER/KAFFEEHAUS features Alex Birnie, Dominic Finocchiaro, Joshua William Gelb, Elizabeth Barrett Groth, Polly Lee, Michael Levinton and Laura von Holt (with a special appearance by Anne Gridley); written by Michael Levinton, Laura von Holt and Little Lord; directed by Michael Levinton; designed by Elizabeth Barrett Groth (sets/costumes), Natalie Robin (lights), Gavin Price (sound), and Serena Wong (associate lights); dramaturgy by Chris Mills; choreography by Whitney G-Bowley; production stage managed by Kaitlin Nemeth.
Performance Schedule:
Thursday, March 5, 2015 @ 7:30 - preview
Friday, March 6, 2015 @ 7:30 - preview
Saturday, March 7 @ 2:30 - press performance
Saturday, March 7 @ 7:30 - press performance and opening night
Tuesday, March 10 @ 7:30
Wednesday, March 11 @ 7:30
Thursday, March 12 @ 7:30
Friday, March 13 @ 7:30
Saturday, March 14 @ 2:30
Saturday, March 14 @ 7:30
Tuesday, March 17 @ 7:30
Wednesday, March 18 @ 7:30
Thursday, March 19 @ 7:30
Friday, March 20 @ 7:30
Saturday, March 21 @ 2:30
Saturday, March 21 @ 7:30
BAMBIF*CKER/KAFFEEHAUS , presented by Little Lord, plays at The Brick (579 Metropolitan Ave at Lorimer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn) L train to Lorimer stop / G train Metropolitan stop. Please note seating is limited! (30 audience members total!)
More info at: http://www.littlelordbambi.com/
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Michael Levinton (artistic director):
Michael Levinton is a producer, director, performer, and creator of original work for the theater. As the Founder and Artistic Director of Little Lord, Michael serves as the director and primary adaptor of the company's work. In addition to all Little Lord work, he has performed in David Greenspan's Old Comedy at Classic Stage Company, and has produced and curated programs for Target Margin Theater, Clubbed Thumb, and Dixon Place. Originally from Baltimore (where he was trained as a h
am on the dinner theater circuit), Michael attended Sarah Lawrence College where he studied mythology, ritual, religion, and theater.
Laura von Holt (associate artistic director)
Laura von Holt is a marginally famous writer and performer from Hawai'i. Besides her work with Little Lord, she is best known as her pinup and performance artist alter ego, von Hottie. Laura chronicles her adventures in training to be an aerial silks acrobat in her fitness challenge series, The Silk Road, on SocialWorkout.com. Laura is the sparkly half of aerial comedy duo, Flaming Mermaid Broken Star, which creates and performs "stunning feats of how-dare-they" on the regular. vonhottie.com
ABOUT LITTLE LORD:
Little Lord is a Brooklyn-based company that creates vibrantly bawdy, irreverent, intelligent, queer, funny (and often musical) theater. Focusing on offbeat adaptations of classic (or neglected) texts, Little Lord plunders the theatrical canon in order to forge new plays from old parts. BAMBIF*CKER/KAFFEEHAUS is Little Lord's 8th original piece for the theater. Other work includes Pocahontas, and/or America (Bushwick Starr 2013), Babes in Toyland Redux (Brick Theater 2011), JEWQUEEN (UNDER St Marks 2011), (oh my god I am so) THIRST(y) (Incubator Arts Project 2010, Chocolate Factory Theater 2009), Victor Herbert's Recession Spectacular Babes in Toyland (OHIO Theater Ice Factory 2009), BALABUSTAS (!) (HERE 2007), and Barbiesteia: Curse of the House of Malibu (OHIO Theater/Target Margin 2007). www.littlelord.org
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