Psycho Space Laboratory Presents Connie in Detroit At Bowery Poetry Club

The Psycho Space Laboratory, an intergalactic blend of theater, performance art, music, and visual art, presents its second offering, one-act play Connie in Detroit, by Libby Emmons, followed by a musical performance by Stacy Rock, Sunday, March 27th with doors opening at 9:30PM. Tickets are $10 in advance through www.ovationtix.com and $15 at the door. More info at www.blueboxproductions.net.

For Donna and Rick Peters, Michigan was not far enough from Brooklyn to escape the demands of family, and the life they thought they had left behind. When Rick's sister Connie arrives with her new baby, and the man she left her husband for, the neighborhood comes crashing into the American dreamland of the Midwest. As each of them struggle to balance responsibility and freedom, all of them face choices that could define them forever. Set in the 1950s, Connie in Detroit, takes a hard look at family, love, and assimilation, as one first generation Italian American family, takes baby steps into a new culture, and life. Connie in Detroit stars David Marcus, Sarah Sakaan, Eve Udesky and Ari Vigoda and is directed by Ali Ayala.

While a one-act play is not often thought of as experimental theater, the production process, invented by Blue Box Productions and called "barnstorming," is. In the current economic climate, the traditional production process is untenable, so we have decided that, to facilitate longer form theatrical presentation, we would barnstorm. By show time, Connie in Detroit will have had only four rehearsals and just one hour in the performance space. What makes this possible is that all of the performers and the creative team are veterans of Blue Box's long running Sticky series. They know how to work together, well, and fast. Barnstorming opens the road to effective theater production without expensive overhead or the burden of development.

The Psycho Space Laboratory is the brain child of three downtown theater companies: Junta Juleil Theatricals, Blue Box Productions, and Rachel

Klein Productions. These three innovative companies have joined forces to bring to life an immersive world of entertainment, blending vintage pop culture with futuristic sci-fi-converting the bar at Bowery Poetry Club into a world of performance adventure.

Blue Box Productions produces the Sticky series at Bowery Poetry Club, which has been running in NYC since 2004. Libby Emmons is the winner of the Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission 2009.

The Psycho Space Laboratory, an intergalactic blend of theater, performance art, music, and visual art, presents its second offering, one-act play Connie in Detroit, by Libby Emmons, followed by a musical performance by Stacy Rock, Sunday, March 27th with doors opening at 9:30PM. Tickets are $10 in advance through www.ovationtix.com and $15 at the door. More info at www.blueboxproductions.net.

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