New Works Take the Stage in 2015 Ice Factory Festival at New Ohio Theatre, 6/24-8/8
By: BWW News Desk May. 29, 2015
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New Ohio Theatre strengthens, nurtures and promotes a community of independent theatre artists and theatre companies by curating and presenting new work in New York City. With its Ice Factory summer festival the New Ohio offers emerging and established companies a prime forum in which to develop their work. Ice Factory prides itself on maintaining extraordinary aesthetic diversity along with an unequaled standard for intelligent, imaginative theater. TimeOut NY calls the Ice Factory "The summer festival with the hippest downtown cred" and "unabashedly intellectual," and The New Yorker says "The Ice Factory Festival has a fine record for presenting intellectually challenging and artistically daring fare." New York Magazine praises the Ice Factory as "New York's #1 Summer Theatre Festival" and The New York Times applauds the festival's "focus on risky and imaginative new work."ICE FACTORY 2015 PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
June 24 - 27
Idiot - Developed and produced by HERE, conceived and adapted from the Dostoevsky novel by Robert Lyons and Kristin Marting, text by Robert Lyons, directed and choreographed by Kristin Marting.
Body - Created by Blessed Unrest, conceived and directed by Jessica Burr, written by Matt Opatrny. For info visit http://BlessedUnrest.org.
Losing Tom Pecinka - Produced by Morgan Gould & Friends, written and directed by Morgan Gould. For info visit http://www.MorganGouldAndFriends.com. When Tom Pecinka, a promising young MFA acting student dies in a tragic car wreck, his best friend, brother, and girlfriend try to make sense of the world without him. But between gay bashing, Tom's ghost, drug abuse, and a budding love affair destined to end in heartbreak, will these three friends ever be the same? Or will they truly...LOSE TOM PECINKA? Morgan Gould & Friends is a group of performers (Chris Geary, Megan Hill, Anna O'Donoghue, Tom Pecinka, Zack Segel, Nate Trinrud and Amir Wachterman) and designers (Chris Barlow, Barbara Samuels and Ryan Seelig) who work together under the direction of writer/director Morgan Gould. They dare to imagine a world where theater isn't boring and pretentious. Instead, it's funny, it's fast, and it makes a point about how we've conditioned ourselves to accept boredom and staleness on stage. They know you'd rather be watching TV, but they promise this is theater you wish you could DVR. July 15 - 18
I Will Look Forward To This Later - Created by The Assembly, text by Emily Louise Perkins, Kate Benson and The Assembly, directed by Jess Chayes and dramaturgy by Stephen Aubrey. For info visit http://Assemblytheater.org. A collaboratively created theatrical meditation on and celebration of the aging process. Weaving together Kabuki-inspired physicality, ancient legends, and found footage of the company's mentors, a multigenerational ensemble tackles the question "How can we live well?" The Assembly is a collective of multi-disciplinary performance artists committed to realizing a visceral and intelligent theater for a new generation. Assembly members unite their varied interests in service of wide-reaching, unabashedly theatrical and rigorously researched ensemble performances that address the complexities of our ever-changing world. The company embraces collaboration as the core of the creative process, allowing all the elements of text, action and design to develop side-by-side within the rehearsal environment. The Assembly is dedicated to rooting its artists, audiences, and peers in a profound sense of community. July 22 - 25
Karaoke Bacchae - Produced by Meta-Phys Ed., written and directed by Jesse Freedman. For info visit www.Meta-PhysEd.com. The Bacchae, in a sports bar on karaoke night during the Stanley Cup. Karaoke has been cancelled to watch the game. Dionysus takes the human form of Iggy Pop and leads a horde of drunken sorority girls and cocktail waitress into a battle of submission for control of the karaoke machine against the bars sadomasochistic management. Meta-Phys Ed. is a multidisciplinary performance collaborative investigating the inseparable relationship between spirituality and art. Founded in 2011 by Jesse Freedman and Rabbi Bronwen Mullin, they create original performance pieces incorporating music, media and dance that hybridize sacred text and contemporary forms. Chalom: A Dream Opera, their original opera based on Talmudic dream texts, premiered at the 2012 New York International Fringe Festival. July 29 - August 1
An Intimate Evening With Typhoid Mary - Produced by Glass Bandits, written by Carl Holder and directed by Stefanie Abel Horowitz. For info visit GBTheater.com. Introducing Martin Allen, an ordinary man dying from an extraordinary disease. His doctor and nurse attend to the worsening condition as Marty enacts the story of his life as a sold out variety show, of which only he and the audience seem to be aware. The hospital blurs into a surreal universe of drag cabaret colliding with the history of America's most notorious food contaminator. Martin gives the performance of his life and everything he has. Glass Bandits Theater Company is a gang of lovable misfits led by Artistic Director Eddie Prunoske and Producing Director Carl Holder seeking to create events that are thrilling and unmannered. Their creations strive to be surprising but still meet the audience in the most directly impacting way possible. The Bandits have been developing and producing work in various theaters, basements, art galleries, festivals, and loft apartments since 2008. August 5 - 8
Holden - Produced by George & Co, directed by Anisa George, written by Anisa George in collaboration with the ensemble. For info visit GeorgeAndCo.org. A tragicomic, modern-day No Exit, plumbing a darker dimension of The Catcher in the Rye. Three obsessive super-fans, with definitively shady pasts, have taken up residence in J.D. Salinger's private writing bunker. Unbeknownst to the reclusive author, their mission to get Salinger to publish once more spirals into a fevered bonfire of longing and delusion. George & Co is a Philadelphia-based theater company led by writer/director Anisa George. It creates madcap and messy, ensemble-created, original works, and has been nominated for "Best Ensemble" at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and named "Pick of the Philadelphia International Festival of Arts" by The Philadelphia Inquirer.
New Ohio Theatre is a two-time OBIE Award-winning theatre under the leadership of Robert Lyons, Artistic Director, and Marc Stuart Weitz, Producing Director. The New Ohio serves New York's most adventurous theatre audiences by developing and presenting the boldest, most innovative work of today's vast independent theatre community. They believe the best of this community, the small artist-driven ensembles and the daring producing companies who operate without a permanent theatrical home, are actively expanding the boundaries of where American theatre is right now and where it's going. New Ohio Theatre nurtures, strengthens, and promotes this community; as they reestablish the West Village as a destination for mature, ridiculous, engaged, irreverent, gut-wrenching, frivolous, sophisticated, foolish and profound theatrical endeavors. The theatre is accessible from the #1 train to Christopher St. or A, B, C, D, E, F or M train to West 4th St. For info visit www.NewOhioTheatre.org.
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