Trick Saddle Presents 'WICKETS' Beginning Previews 1/3/09

Trick Saddle presents the World Premiere of WICKETS beginning previews January 3 at 3LD Art & Technology Center. This radical adaptation of Marie Irene Fornes groundbreaking 1971 drama Fefu and Her Friends is created and conceived by Clove Galilee and Jenny Rogers.  Developed through Mabou Mines Suite/Space and the HERE Arts Center Artist Residency Program (HARP) with overall support from INTAR Theater.  Opening night is slated for Thursday January 8, 2009.

WICKETS is Fefu and Her Friends at 30,000 feet.  Set inside an airplane, the entire theater becomes the stage with high-flying action that takes place in and around the audience--in the aisles, galleys and lavatories of a trans-Atlantic flight. Immersed in a mystery, eight 1970's stewardesses find themselves split between the private self and the public persona in this radical adaptation of Maria Irene Fornes' play.  Manned by a dedicated crew, Wicket Air Flight 1971 takes off just prior to the crest of the 2nd Wave of feminism on a journey where no man has gone before-to women's struggle in the workplace. On board, these stews look for mysterious signs of life and offer oxygen to a present-day feminism desperately in need of life support.

Co-directed by Jenny Rogers and Clove Galilee.  Adapted and designed by Jenny Rogers, with choreography by Clove Galilee, videography by Jenny Rogers and an original soundtrack by the LA rock band Jetliner (fronted by lead singer Adam Paskowitz, formerly of The Flys). It stars Katie Apicella, Lee Eddy, Jessica Jolly, Christianna Nelson, Maria Parra, Kristen Rozanski, Lucas Steele  Jona Tuck, and Elizabeth Wakehouse.
Clove Galilee's work has been presented in New York at PS122, the Public Theater, The Performing Garage, Arts at Saint Ann's, The Flea, PS1/ MOMA and Skirball Center. She is a TCG New Generations Fellow and a Princess Grace Foundation-USA Fellowship recipient. Clove is an artistic associate with Mabou Mines. In 2005, she collaborated with Basil Twist, Ushio Torikai, and Lee Breuer on Mabou Mines's production of Red Beads. Most recently, she was commissioned by New York Theater Ballet to create an original work based on James Joyce's The Dead.
Jenny Rogers has exhibited her video work in numerous venues including PS 1 / MOMA , Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Feminale: 12 "International Women's Film Festival"in Cologne Germany; Bimovie 11- International Film Festival in Munich, Out Takes - New Zealand, Herzliya Museum for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv, and the Frameline Festival - San Francisco's Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. Recent theatrical projects include set design for The Libation Bearers in Athens, Greece.
WICKETS runs January 3 - 25, Thursday - Sunday at 8pm with an added performance Monday, January 5.  3LD Art & Technology Center is located at 80 Greenwich Street (at Rector Street -- accessible from the 1 train at Rector Street). Tickets are $18, available at 212-352-3101 or www.3LDNYC.org. For more information visit www.TrickSaddle.com.

Photo: Amanda Weeden, Eddie Varley and Kristen Rozanski