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[Nettime-ro] Sonnets For An Old Century @ Location One |
Location One invites you to join us In Hot Pursuit for two special performances of SONNETS FOR AN OLD CENTURY A New Play by Jose Rivera Directed by KJ Sanchez With Carolyn Baeumler, George Bass, Doug Bost, Alison Briner, Ron Cohen, Michael Escamilla, Dion Graham, Bridgett Ane Lawrence, Kriste Peoples, Bray Poor, Jocelyn Ruggiero and Dawn Saito; Stage Manager Emily Mendelsohn Live Sound by Atsushi Nishijima and Richard Huntley Thursday, January 24th and Friday, January 25th 2002 at 8pm Location One 26 Greene Street NYC, Between Grand and Canal Subway: Canal Street (N, R, 6, A, C, E, J, M, Z) (212) 334-3347 Tickets: $10 This performance will be streamed live at www.location1.org SONNETS FOR AN OLD CENTURY examines what it means to be alive at this particular time and place and what traces each of us will leave behind. In a series of exquisitely written monologues, using dance and live music, SONNETS captures the subtle, often overlooked treasures of everyday life. SONNETS FOR AN OLD CENTURY is the latest work by award-winning Puerto Rican Playwright Jose Rivera. Rivera's plays have been seen nationally, internationally and translated into seven languages; they have been performed at the Joseph Papp Public Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, South Coast Rep, the Goodman Theatre, the Mark Taper Forum, Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival and Hartford Stage Company, and include the Obie Award-winning MARISOL and REFERENCES TO SALVADOR DALI MAKE ME HOT. Rivera has been a writer-in-residence at the Royal Court Theatre, London. Television credits include co-creating and producing the critically-acclaimed NBC series "Eerie, Indiana,” as well as "The Eddie Matos Story" for HBO; episodes of "Goosebumps," "The Great Brain," and "Night Visions" for the Henson Company; "The Brothers Garcia" for Nickelodeon; and "A.K.A. Pablo" for ABC. Films include "The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story," "Mr. Shadow," and "Family Matters," all for Disney, as well as the 3-D IMAX film "Riding the Comet" for Sony. Director KJ Sanchez recently starred as Thyona in Charles L. Mee's BIG LOVE at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. This past year KJ created, choreographed and directed TOO MUCH WATER, a dance theatre piece about Ophelia, for the graduate theatre training program at the University of Washington in Seattle. KJ was a member of Anne Bogart's SITI Company for many years where she co-created plays such as GOING GOING GONE, SMALL LIVES BIG DREAMS and CULTURE OF DESIRE and performed extensively throughout the US and internationally. In Hot Pursuit is a series curated by Jocelyn Ruggiero that focuses on new theatre and innovative directors. For complete bios and additional information see: www.location1.org/artists/sonnets.html In Hot Pursuit continues March 7, 8 & 9 with Gide's Philoctetes: A Treatise on Three Ethics, directed by Sonja Moser Location One (www.location1.org) is a new not-for profit art center, which fosters the convergence of all types of creative expression. We maintain a gallery space suitable for every form of performance and exhibition, and within this space, multimedia net-broadcasting facilities that allow us to webcast a 24-hour stream of both live and archived events. Our International Residency Program invites artists from other countries to experiment with emerging technologies. Location One is an exploration space for continual creative discovery. ****To be removed from the Location One email list, please hit reply and write "Remove" in the subject line. Thank You. _______________________________________________ locone mailing list locone@mail.location1.org http://mail.location1.org/mailman/listinfo/locone _______________________________________________ Nettime-ro mailing list Nettime-ro@nettime.org http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ro --> arhiva: http://amsterdam.nettime.org/