THE ANNOTATED HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN MUSKRAT Opens Tonight at Ice Factory Festival

THE ANNOTATED HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN MUSKRAT, an experimental American epic, will receive its New York premiere in the 2016 Ice Factory Festival at New Ohio Theatre.

Written by award-winning playwright John Kuntz, the premiere production by the Circuit Theatre Company in Boston was deemed "an opportunity to see a theater company pushing dramatic boundaries in exciting new ways" by The Boston Globe.

Performances will begin today - July 13 - at 7:00pm. The show was listed as one of the "six weirdest Off Broadway plays and musicals this summer" by Time Out New York.

Eight actors are part of an experiment. Or maybe they're eight ordinary people who think they're actors. Or maybe they were actors and acted so hard they became something else entirely. All they know is that they're in America, and they have to give a presentation about muskrats if they ever want to sleep. Unless they're sleeping right now. THE ANNOTATED HISTORY... is a wild collage of absurd comedy, melodrama, dancing, historical fiction, and live music videos, exploring how we build a national identity out of stories-and how those stories can become more powerful than the people who tell them. Skylar Fox directs the production.

The cast of THE ANNOTATED HISTORY includes Sam Bell-Gurwitz, Jared Bellot, Madeline Boles, Christopher Fitzsimmons, Simon Henriques, Molly Jones, Anna Nemetz, and Justin Phillips.

The production team includes Scenic Design by Adam Wyron, Costume Design by Corina Chase, Lighting Design by Christopher Annas-Lee, Props Design by Amalia Sweet, Production Stage Manager Lida Richardson, and Executive Produced by Jenny Gorelick. Produced in association with Foxy Henriques, The Circuit Theatre Company, and The Ice Factory Festival at New Ohio Theatre.

FOXY HENRIQUES is a company made up of Skylar Fox, Simon Henriques, and their friends. They make inventive, funny, strange plays in an effort to create uniquely communicative experimental theatre. Their work has been produced at Ars Nova, the Brick, Fresh Ground Pepper, the Flea, and the Orange Tea Theatre in Amsterdam, and their show ...Apathy Boy was a 2015 O'Neill finalist.

CIRCUIT THEATRE is a critically acclaimed, Boston-based company, known for creating epic theatrical experiences. Circuit has worked in residence at the A.R.T, the Huntington, the Boston Playwrights Theatre, and more, and has been nominated for six major awards over five seasons. The Boston Globe calls them "a theatre company pushing dramatic boundaries in exciting new ways."

ICE FACTORY is the New Ohio's OBIE award-winning summer festival of new work. Plays introduced in Ice Factory have gone on to garner Drama Desk nominations, OBIE Awards, Audience First Awards in Edinburgh, Off-Broadway productions, commercial runs, and national and international tours.

Performances are at New Ohio Theatre at 154 Christopher St. on Wednesday 7/13 at 7pm, Thursday 7/14 at 7pm, Friday 7/15 at 7pm, and Saturday 7/16 at 7pm.

Tickets are available at web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/958131 or by calling 212-352-3101. Tickets are $18 general admission and $15 for students and seniors. For the full Ice Factory 2016 lineup, visit newohiotheatre.org/icefactory2016.htm. Follow the muskrats on twitter @foxyhenriques. For more information about Foxy Henriques, visit foxyhenriques.com.

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.
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 bold work from 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. From their home in the West Village's historic Archive Building, the New Ohio provides a high-profile platform for downtown's most 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, like on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/NewOhioTheatre and www.Facebook.com/IceFactoryFestival, follow on Instagram at NewOhioTheatre, and for up-to-the-minute festival updates follow on Twitter at Twitter.com/NewOhioTheatre.

Pictured: The Annotated History of the American Muskrat. Photo by Julie Fox.

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