WHAT WE’RE EXCITED ABOUT | Ep. 10 Week of July 19 guest-curated by Cassaundra Marie
RULE OF 7x7 : Summer Edition 7 WRITERS ~ 7 RULES ~ 7 NEW PLAYS RULE OF 7x7 is an ongoing series that premieres 7 brand-new 10 minute plays by 7 different writers. For each show, every playwright comes up with one rule, then the 7 playwrights create new plays using all 7 rules. Featuring 7 world premieres by: Alessandro King Ying Ying Li Nick Mecikalski Sean Murphy Briana Pozner Donaldo Prescod Natalie Walker https://www.facebook.com/events/322060594874220/
großer Lauscher großer Lauscher (“big Eavesdropper” in German) is a spatial sound installation created by interdisciplinary artist Alyssa Miserendino. The piece was recorded in the main radar dome at the Field Station Berlin, a listening station built during the Cold War by the US National Security Agency (NSA). Exhibited in the darkness, the piece is comprised of five narrators from five different continents reciting the story of Echo from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, while the protracted echos created by the architecture allow visitors to visualize the space of the Field Station. https://knockdown.center/event/grosserlauscher/
THE PROTEST PLAYS Sun July 23 Playwrights For A Cause & Planet Awards Nomination Announcement Party “This is an excellent group of plays… and players!” says Brock Harris Hill, curator of this year’s annual Playwrights for a Cause benefit, hosted by Planet Connections Theatre Festivity. The celebrated event addresses powerful social and topical issues in our society through the works of prominent playwrights. This year, the event will be Sunday, July 23, and will benefit the New York Civil Liberties Union with “The Protest Plays,” stories of standing up to injustice, are world premieres written by celebrated authors, Catherine Filloux, Lyle Kessler, Jose Rivera, David Stallings, and Regina Taylor specifically for Playwrights For A Cause. http://planetconnections.org/playwrights-for-a-cause-2017/
Re-stagings No. 1: Choreographing LeWitt
Abigail Levine
The 3,744 lines that comprise Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #56 (1970) take Abigail Levine twenty-five hours to complete, five hours of movement each day for five days. In a 12 x 12’ square, Levine performs the Wall Drawing one line at a time, following LeWitt’s instructions as he wrote them. Sound designer Dave Ruder captures the sound of each line, the pencil’s mark amplified via contact microphones and played back into the room. As the drawing is performed, a sonic archive accumulates around it in a multi-channel sound installation in speakers spread throughout the space.
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