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CCF 2012
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Company Creation Festival 2012
New work generated by four ensembles
As Long as Fear Can Turn to Wrath
Holly L. Derr
i wonder if its possible... or things i found on craigslist
The Informers
Reactor: Simple Clean Efficient
Collab :: Wordspace
January 11 - March 4, 2012
Wednesday - Saturday @ 8 p.m.
Sunday @ 5 p.m.
Click here for the festival performance schedule.
ADDRESS:
Son of Semele Theater
3301 Beverly Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90004
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PARKING:
Free street parking. Please allow extra time to park. Street construction has limited the number of spaces in the area. If you would prefer to valet, you can park at the valet for Medusa Lounge on Friday and Saturday nights.
PRICES:
$18, general
$35, festival pass (1 ticket to all 4 productions)
Some events may not allow for late seating.
QUESTIONS/EXCHANGES
Email us by sending a message to tickets@sonofsemele.org.
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As Long as Fear Can Turn to Wrath
Created and Adapted by Holly L. Derr
Dates:
1/11, 1/12, 1/13, 1/28, 1/29, 2/8, 2/9, 2/10, 2/25, 2/26
Times:
8 p.m. on Wednesday - Saturday
5 p.m. on Sunday
As Long as Fear Can Turn to Wrath, an adaptation of selected chapters of a certain great American novel, begins by illuminating the consequences of an unregulated home loan industry. We then follow the collective Okies as they are swindled by used car dealers, forced to beg for bread to feed their children, denied pay for work they have already performed, and kicked off the one piece of land – the Hooverville – they have chosen to occupy. By focusing not on any one individual or family but rather on the more than 300,000 people that made up the “Okies,” our production shows that the scourge of poverty infects whole societies, not just individuals. The problems these families face and the conclusions they draw are separated from those of today only by time, not by sentiment. (Check out our tumblr of images relating then to now.) In this piece, we hope to reveal the consequences of joblessness, convince the viewer that our current path will only lead to more division, and reinforce the necessity of collective action in solving problems.
Photo by Andrew Hungerford
Photo by Andrew Hungerford
Photo by Andrew Hungerford
ARTISTS:
Holly L. Derr, Adapter/Director
Andrew Hungerford, Designer
Cast (in alpha):
Melina Bielefelt*, Sheila Carrasco, Anthony Castillo, Emily Catherine Copplestone, Laura Emanuel, Perry Jackson, Richard Scott and Sean Simbro
* courtesy of Actors' Equity Association.
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i wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever or things i found on craigslist
By Christopher Oscar Peña
The Informers
Dates:
1/14, 1/15, 1/25, 1/26, 1/27, 2/11, 2/12, 2/22, 2/23, 2/24
Times:
8 p.m. on Wednesday - Saturday
5 p.m. on Sunday
As epic as your first kiss and a personal as a Facebook poke, i wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever, or things i found on craigslist, written by Christopher Oscar Peña with music and lyrics by Melissa Lusk, is The Big Chill for millennials. In the face of their ten-year high school reunion, a group of 20-somethings still caught up in yesterday wake up to find themselves still searching a sense of purpose. the group are forced to confront their crippling insecurities and emotional baggage. Secrets are shared and people are "no longer in a relationship" as the personal becomes public in this gripping, witty insight into making it all work in web 2.0. ...things i found on craigslist is about ambivalence, connection and finding yourself - and love - in the internet age.
ARTISTS:
Christopher Oscar Peña, Playwright
Mary Birnbaum, Director
Cast (in alpha):
Lourdes Avila (Greenberg),Christine Corpuz (Anthony and Cleopatra), Gene Gallerano (The Talk Man), Rebecca Lawrence (The Kids Are Alright), Christina Bennett Lind (All My Children), Michael Micalizzi (“Looking at Christmas” on PBS), Scott Morse (American Sexy), Samantha Posey (OM: An Indian Tale of Good and Evil), and Rodney To (Wilfred).
* courtesy of Actors' Equity Association.
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Roses
Composed by Casey Caldwell from the Notebooks of Richard Foreman, the works of Getrude Stein, and stories from the performer's own lives.
Ratatat Theater Group
Dates:
1/18, 1/19, 1/20, 2/4, 2/5, 2/15, 2/16, 2/17, 3/3, 3/4
Times:
8 p.m. on Wednesday - Saturday
5 p.m. on Sunday
A layer cake of zany farce and deep reflection, Roses is an existential comedy by about trying to find a clear signal in the noise of modern life. Two men dig through the clutter of their hearts, minds, and personal histories—tossing around philosophical time-bombs, dressing up in women’s clothing, dancing about in cardboard boxes, and getting very, very lost. Called "An entirely fresh and unique work of theater" (Noozhawk) and "A triumph of creative expression in all its giddy glory" (Santa Barbara Independent), Roses is play about trying to live and stay awake through the habits, static, and competing truths of our lives.
Photo by Lara Cooper
Photo by Lara Cooper
Photo by Lara Cooper
ARTISTS:
Casey Caldwell, Concept/Direction/Design
Cast (in alpha):
Nolan Hamlin and Ivan Wohner
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Reactor: Simple Clean Efficient
By Brenda Varda
Collab :: Wordspace
Dates:
1/21, 1/22, 2/1, 2/2, 2/3, 2/18, 2/19, 2/29, 3/1, 3/2
Times:
8 p.m. on Wednesday - Saturday
5 p.m. on Sunday
You want your power and you want it now: under the bright domes of SONGS, the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, Reactor explores our collective complicity with nuclear reactors. With an impractical physicist father and a by-the-book engineer mother, Ellie struggles to comprehend the current nuclear fission-fusion debate and repair her family's fissure. She dreams her way around the world to find atomic truths, meeting babushkas and manzai, but the further she goes on this impossible tour, the harder it is to know whether the solution is the one at hand or one yet to be dreamed.
Photo by Liam Connor
Photo by Liam Connor
Photo by Liam Connor
ARTISTS:
Brenda Varda, Playwright/Director
Diana Wyenn, Movement
Alyssa Ishii, Sound Design
Matt Mellinger, Video Design
J Warner, Stage Manager
Shirley Anderson, Dramaturge
Cast (in alpha):
Mikhail Blokh, Reena Dutt, Lise Hart, Daisuke Suzuki, Lu Vasquez and Diana Wyenn.