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Play: the acme corporation
Play, which I co-directed with Lola B. Pierson, took Beckett’s stage direction—“repeat play”—at the end of the script literally: the piece ran repeatedly for 12 hours starting at 12 p.m. on March 15, 2013 (concluding at 12 a.m. on March 16), and 24 hours starting at 12 p.m. on March 22 (concluding at 12 p.m.…
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Rockaby: The Acme Corporation
Rockaby, which was also presented at St. Mark’s Church in October 2013. The recording of the text was overseen by the Canadian sound designer and composer, Alexander MacSween, who, working with myself and the actress, Temple Crocker, approached it as four very separate soundscapes—with slight atmospheric and acoustic differentiations. Crocker and I also approached the…
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Killer’s Head: The Acme Corporation
This Sam Shepard monologue–the last fleeting thoughts of a man about to die in an electric chair–was performed by Chris Ashworth and produced by the Acme Corporation. Video of “Killer’s Head” The play was staged it in the bell tower of St. Mark’s Church, a claustrophobic, stone-encased, dungeon of a room that fit approximately 18 people…
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Not I: The Acme Corporation
Not I was produced as part of Acme Corporation’s Rogue Waves—an evening of short plays in February 2012 at the Bell Foundry. The presentation of the piece was, on its surface, a radical rethinking of the work. Rather than presenting it in the traditional way—“a stage in darkness but for a mouth . . .…
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The Memo: Single Carrot Theatre
Single Carrot Theatre produced The Memo in May 2014. Upon reflection, it became apparent that 50 years after the first production of Václav Havel’s critique of Communist Party bureaucracy and conformity and 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Soviet Union and its satellites didn’t have the corner on top-heavy bureaucracies. Anyone who’s gone to the…
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The Natasha Plays
The Natasha Plays (I Won and Natasha’s Dream) by Yaroslava Pulinovich, translated by John Freedman, were originally presented at the Towson University Department of Theatre Arts New Russian Drama season, developed in collaboration with the Center for International Development, Philip Arnoult, Director. The productions toured to the Charlestown Working Theatre in Massachusetts, Mabou Mines ToRoNaDa Space in New York City,…
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