[WHAT WE SHOULD JUDGE WHEN WE JUDGE...]
PERFORMANCE: August 20-23 8PM $17/Student $12

Ontological Theater

[WHAT WE SHOULD JUDGE WHEN WE JUDGE...]
LONELINESS, LOSS, REGRET, REDEMPTION:
FOUR(4)(IV)LECTURES ON THE RECALCITRANT HUMAN CONDITION, VIEWED THROUGH THE PRISM OF MODERN ART AS REFRACTED BY THE AESTHETIC OF THE ANCIENTS

On Sensation by Jake Hooker, or The Plastic Arts

Several aspects of writer/director/lecturer Jake Hooker's psyche go to
work attempting to elucidate the subjects of lyric Greek poetry and Roman art, and
something else -- topics very few people care about and he himself
knows almost nothing about. Thankfully, certain rogue elements
intercede on the behalf of theaudience, leading to more personal (and
present) ruminations on loneliness, on loss, on regret, on redemption
--on sensation. A lecture with audio/visual aids.

Created & performed: Jake Hooker
Designed: Tlaloc Lopez-Waterman
Video: Brian Rogers
Produced in association with the Ontological-Hysteric Incubator

WMD (just the low points)
PERFORMANCE: August 13 - 16 7PM $15 Sen/Stud: $10
Opening Night Post-Show Reception (August 13th)
The Ohio Theatre, 66 Wooster Street

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Sponsored By Nobody
created by the ensemble
directed by Kevin Doyle

A titanic attempt to rediscover the nation's soul. Structured around the events of a single date (January 8, 2004) using found texts as a base to examine Americans'
relationship with their media during wartime. Incorporates elements of theatre, dance, film, music and installation art.

mythic figurations: a power triptych
PERFORMANCE: July 31, 2008 - August 9th 8PM $17/Student $12

Ontological Theater

"This multidisciplinary piece is distinguished by quirky performances and a
meticulously detailed production design...Richly hypnotic." -The Gothamist

Selected as one of New York Magazine's "Off-off Broadway Picks"!

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mythic figurations: a power triptych is a devised piece, centered on the research of Joseph Campbell and the
theatrical aesthetics of Title:Point Productions, referencing diverse influences, from classic myths to modern video games. Guy is the reluctant central figure, overseeing an efficient albeit lusterless depot where an
alluring assassin receives her missions and a battle-worn has been preserves all previous glory while itching to achieve immediate relevance. The world is thrown into chaos as Guy's personal mythology begins to take shape in her
world.

Written & Directed by
Samara Naeymi
Audio-Video Design/Stage Manager: Brendan Regimbal
Set Design: Peter Ksander
Lighting Design: Miranda Hardy
Costume Design: Solace Naeymi
Graphic Design/ AD: Fil Vocasek
Featuring: Theresa Buchheister as Guy Sherman - Vonia Arslanian as The Assassin - Ilan Bachrach as Warren

I decided that I wanted to use video projection very early on in creating UNPRONOUNCEABLE SYMBOL, for several reasons. It allows you to very easily incorporate outside material in a way you otherwise couldn’t. In this show in specific, we were able to incorporate a lot of footage, both still photos and video clips, that I had taken in Minneapolis and to have the sort of cold “outside”, urban imagery to contrast with the opulence of the “inside” world that we made onstage with heavy curtains, flowers, purple light and haze. Not to mention the easy ability to incorporate Minneapolis itself into the show, which I was interested in. I’ve also always enjoyed the aesthetic of projected video as I often favor very basic, i.e. transparent stagecraft so having slides appear behind the action appeals to me. Generally, the ephemeral nature of projected imagery, lights and shadows and such is something I really enjoy and think added a lot to our show.

Neal Medlyn

Red handle's Yellow Electras
PERFORMANCE: July 10 - 19 $17
Ontological-Hysteric Incubator

Red handle creates and presents live performances that crash through boundaries of media, genre, storytelling, and audience.
Red handle's newest remaking creates a new template for an old myth, mixing video, movement, opera, and theatre in a playful series of episodes, interruptions, and entertainments. Following the success of iph.then at the Ontological last summer, YELLOW ELECTRAS is a mash-up of the Electra myth and Kandinsky's Yellow Sound, and includes several Electras, a chorus, opera, dance, and sounds from Strauss, Kandinsky, and & Grizzly Bear.

Writer/Director: Peter A. Campbell
Dramaturgy: Ramona Thomasius
Movement: Laura Ward
Co-Producer: Eve Hartmann
Stage Manager: Christine Vartoughian
Sets + Lights: Peter Ksander
Video Design: Ann LePore
Video Editing + Operator: Laura Keller
Light Operator: Lauren Barbara

CAST:
Laura Heidinger - ELECTRA
Genevieve de Gaillande - ELECTRA
Karen Rich - ELEKTRA
David Gordon - ORESTES
Gavin Starr Kendall - MENTOR/PYLADES
Chorus: Diane Botta, Jackie Byrne, Carissa Cordes,
Annie Deng, Sarah Hartmann, Cindy Kawasaki,
Jaime Lubin, Ashlie Miller, Lauren Ospala,
Marjorie Polunas, Justine Raczkiewicz,
Iracel Rivero, Jennifer Stepanyk, Jenny Vallancourt

Prince: Neal Medlyn's Unpronounceable Symbol
PERFORMANCE: July 9th-20th 8PM
additional late show Sat 11PM
PS122

"Neal Medlyn's Unpronounceable Symbol is Neal Medlyn's fourth and largest to date pop song tragic-comedic extravaganza. Following the success of his Lionel Richie Opera, R. Kelly cabaret, and wild and bloody spin on Phil Collins, Medlyn takes on the purple, hyper- sexualized world of Prince.

Set to many of Prince's biggest hits and infamous b-sides, all performed onstage by a live band, Neal plays out an evening of seduction and intense internal spiritual conflict between two characters: an engaged cab driver and a messianic libertine. Jealousy, band troubles, violence, death, a dream ballet, decent into hell and the eventual transubstantiation of body fluids and redemption all find their place in an operatic and overblown evening of androgynous musical entertainment.

Co-written and with musical arrangements by Tony-Award Nominated and Obie winner Kenny Mellman; Herb of Kiki & Herb and co-creator, with Bridget Everett and Michael Patrick King ("Sex and the City") of At Least It's Pink. Neal will also be joined by Adrienne Truscott, lauded choreographer and half of the award winning neo-vaudeville duo the Wau Wau Sisters, who will also contribute choreography, and Carmine Covelli.
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Ellen Stewart's new adaptation of The Raven

PERFORMANCE: June 12-29
7:30PM $25
La MaMa E.T.C. Annex (66 East 4th
Street)

An American-premiere musical based on the play by 18th-century Italian writer Carlo Gozzi. Ellen Stewart has set
Carlo Gozzi's tale of enchantment in China, transforming the work into a poetic
new musical that blends the Venetian author's timeless fairytale with new
elements inspired by the theatrical aesthetics of China

The Raven tells the story of King Milo who shoots a crow during a hunting expedition, then is placed under a horrific curse by the bird's owner. To be delivered from that curse he must find a
woman who possesses special qualities.

featuring an international cast from The Great Jones Repertory Company