One Arm Red, under the artistic direction of Adam Adams will present the New York premiere of Lake Simons' & Chad Lynch's new comedy, ETIQUETTE UNRAVELED on Thursday, February 3, 2011 at One Arm Red's 'Red-Space' (10 Jay Street - 9th Floor in Brooklyn). The production will have its official opening on Saturday, February 5, 2011. Simons and Lynch will co-direct. www.onearmred.com
Performed by
Lake Simons, ETIQUETTE UNRAVELED is a comedic solo piece that spotlights the struggle to live an organized life when chaos prevails. To escape the mundane patterns of life, an unusual woman dives into her make believe world of imagination. Driven by curiosity, she's lead into a series of vignettes that begin with order but swiftly unravel...leaving her fantasy world in tatters. A tea party with a misbehaving guest, a chance meeting culminating in a kiss, a captain at sea, a cowboy taming his mare, and a final duet make up a day-in-the-life of ETIQUETTE UNRAVELED.
Developed through multiple Creation Residencies at One Arm Red, an excerpt under the
Working Title At Long Last was presented at HERE Theater's CultureMart last year and premiered under the title ETIQUETTE UNRAVELED at the Hip
Pocket Theatre in Fort Worth, Texas in July of 2010.
Chad Lynch (Co-creator and director) has been on staff at the Guthrie Theater,
The Public Theater, and Theatre de la Jeune Lune, as well as creating works for HBO, MTV, VH-1, Showtime, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and numerous Broadway Shows.
Lake Simons (Co-creator, director & performer) has performed in over 20 productions at the Hip
Pocket Theatre in Ft. Worth Texas and has created her own works for the past 12 years. Trained at Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris, she has gone onto work as a co-creator with many artists on various theatrical productions including, What's inside the egg? Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, How I Fixed My Engine with Rose Water, and White Elephant. Lake's work as a puppeteer has been seen in
Basil Twist's Petrushka, Symphonie Fantastique, Master Peter's Puppet Show, La Bella Dormente Nel Bosco, and Red Beads with
Mabou Mines. As a designer, Lake has collaborated with New York Shakespeare Festival,
Doug Elkins, and Division 13 among others. She is the recipient of multiple
Jim Henson Foundation Grants.
Simons and Lynch have worked together in various capacities for the past 10 years. They met at North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston Salem, NC where they were enrolled in the Design and Production department. They reunited in New York City working at the same scenic shop in Brooklyn and later working together artistically. They collaborated on the creation of a project called Prairie? What Prairie? which premiered at HERE Theatre in New York City in 2002. Chad also performed with Lake in the Simon/Dyer production of What's Inside the Egg? at HERE Theatre in NYC. Both were part of the collaborative team on How I Fixed My Engine with Rose Water performed at Theatre for the New City. Etiquette Unraveled reunites them for their most exciting collaborative project to date.
Performances of ETIQUETTE UNRAVELED are Thursday - Saturdays at 7:30PM and Sundays at 5:30PM.
Tickets for ETIQUETTE UNRAVELED are $20 and can be ordered at www.smarttix.com or by calling SmartTix at 212.868.4444. Tickets are also available at the box office prior to each performance. For more info on select "pay what you can" performances visit www.onearmred.com
One Arm Red's "Red-Space" is located at 10 Jay Street in Brooklyn. F train to York Street. Make a right onto Jay street. Walk 4 blocks. 10 Jay Street is the last building on the left by the water.
