[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

And I keep forgetting to mention that we're having an informal showing of the video that I've shot at DPI.  It's being projected inside the building at 983-A Dean St this Saturday, 26th July.  It's designed to be viewed from the street.  The building is in the middle of the block between Franklin and Classon (nearest subway C train to Franklin Ave).  

Weather permitting, Monica Ruzansky (www.monicaruzansky.com) will be projecting her beautiful photography on the surrounding architecture and up on the roof, where we'll be hanging out and having drinks with anyone who wants to drop by and join us from 9pm onwards.  Hope to see you there!

SOHO Think Tank ICE FACTORY '08 : TRACES/fades
July 16-19 Wednesday-Saturday 7PM $10-$15
Ohio Theatre, 66 Wooster St

a meditation on Alzheimer's and our national inability to remember history.
an intergenerational performance that examines the fluidity of identity.

written and conceived: Lenora Champagne
directed: Lenora Champagne and Robert Lyons
featuring: Mary Fogarty*, Judith Greentree*, Joanne Jacobson*, Quanda Johnson*, Matthew Lewis*, Amelie Lyons and Lenora Champagne
music and sound:Daniel Levy and Lisa Dove
video: Shaun Irons and Lauren Petty
lights: Stacey-Jo Marine
costumes: Liz Prince
stage management: Nicole Marconi
assistant direction: Tricia Cramer and Janina Santillan

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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