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Less Than Two Weeks Away . . .
Jul. 26th, 2009 06:55 amA reminder and promo . . .
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THE COLLISIONWORKS
An Annual Presentation of Theatre
from Gemini CollisionWorks
August 7 to 30, 2009
at The Brick
575 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NYC
4 Shows designed and directed by Ian W. Hill
assisted by Berit Johnson
featuring
A LITTLE PIECE OF THE SUN by Daniel McKleinfeld
The Soviet Union, 1978-1990
Chernobyl Reactor Unit #4, nuclear power plant. Official Body Count: 31.
Actual Body Count: Will never be known.
Andrei Chikatilo, serial killer. Official Body Count: 53.
Actual Body Count: Will never be known.
Two true stories of murder.
One true story of lies and corruption.
A documentary for the stage, examining the stories of serial killer Andrei Chikatilo and the 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor through a collage of found texts that reveal these two stories of mass death to be one story of institutional corruption in a theatrical autopsy where Art is the only scalpel sharp enough to cut through the mangled flesh of the lies to reveal the glowing fragment of truth underneath it all.
performed by David Arthur Bachrach*, Fred Backus, Aaron Baker, Olivia Baseman*, Adam Belvo, Eric Feldman, Ian W. Hill, Colleen Jasinski, Gavin Starr Kendall, Roger Nasser, Tom Reid, Melissa Roth, Patrick Shearer, Alyssa Simon*
August 7, 12, 15, 21, 23 and 27 at 8.00 pm
August 9, 16, and 30 at 3.00 pm
approximately 2 hours and 10 minutes long (including one intermission)
*****
BLOOD ON THE CAT'S NECK by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
(which is sometimes subtitled Marilyn Monroe vs. The Vampires) is a 1971 play by the iconoclastic playwright/filmmaker in which a beautiful, blonde, vampiric Amazon of a space alien is dropped into a bourgeois cocktail party with an unlikely group of guests in an attempt to learn about human beings, without much success, until her plundering of the guests’ minds becomes a more direct and physical acquisition of their life essences.
performed by Gyda Arber, Eric C. Bailey*, Danny Bowes, V. Orion Delwaterman, Rasheed Hinds, Toya Lillard, Samantha Mason, Amy Overman, Roger Nasser, Shelley Ray*
August 9, 14, 19, 22, 25 and 26 at 8.00 pm
August 8, 15, and 29 at 4.00 pm
approximately 80 minutes long
*****
GEORGE BATAILLE'S BATHROBE by Richard Foreman
An abstract play by that receives its first fully-staged American/English-Language production, interpreted here as the story of an elderly, controversial writer in a prison (perhaps real, perhaps metaphoric) on his dying day, as he is confronted with his memories and regrets made flesh, both tormenting him and attempting to help him pass out of this life with peace and acceptance.
performed by Sarah Malinda Engelke*, Liza Wade Green, Justin R.G. Holcomb*, Bob Laine, Kathryn Lawson, Patrice Miller, Timothy McCown Reynolds*, Bill Weeden*
August 8, 11, 13, 18, 20, 28 and 29 at 8.00 pm
August 22 and 23 at 4.00 pm
approximately 75 minutes long
*****
SACRIFICIAL OFFERINGS by David Finkelstein & Ian W. Hill
-- a dramaticule -- began as an improvisational performance duet created by the two authors as the basis for a multilayered video artwork by Mr. Finkelstein for his Lake Ivan Performance Group.
Mr. Hill has taken the improvised text and transformed it into the story of a drawing room séance among the upper class, with a version of Mr. Finkelstein’s video (Marvelous Discourse) presented mid-performance as the appearance of the “spirits” into the room.
performed by Eric C. Bailey*, Larry Gutman, Stephen Heskett, Justin R.G. Holcomb*, Kirill Khvenkin, Victoria Miller, Ben Robertson, Eve Udesky*
August 8, 14, 22, and 28 at 10.30 pm
August 16 and 30 at 8.00 pm
August 15, 23, and 29 at 2.00 pm
approximately 40 minutes long
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Tickets: $15.00 (except SACRIFICIAL OFFERINGS: $10.00)
Or 2 shows for $25.00, 3 for $35.00, or all four for $40.00!
All tickets available at Theatermania.com (212-352-3101)
www.bricktheater.com
*appears courtesy Actors' Equity Association
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DONATE TO GEMINI COLLISIONWORKS! IT'S TAX-DEDUCTIBLE!
1. If you wish to donate by check, they MUST be made out to "Fractured Atlas," with "Gemini CollisionWorks" in the memo line (and nowhere else), and should be given to us personally or sent to us for processing at:
Gemini CollisionWorks
c/o Hill-Johnson
367 Avenue S #1B
Brooklyn, NY 11223
2. You can also donate directly online securely by credit card at
https://www.fracturedatlas.org/donate/1394
(please double-check to be sure you're at the "Gemini CollisionWorks" donation page)
All donors (if donations are received by August 1) will be listed in all our programs for the 2009 season under the following categories with our current donors (donations after August 1 will appear in our 2010 programs):
$0-25 - BONDO
THE COLLISIONWORKS
An Annual Presentation of Theatre
from Gemini CollisionWorks
August 7 to 30, 2009
at The Brick
575 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NYC
4 Shows designed and directed by Ian W. Hill
assisted by Berit Johnson
featuring
A LITTLE PIECE OF THE SUN by Daniel McKleinfeld
The Soviet Union, 1978-1990
Chernobyl Reactor Unit #4, nuclear power plant. Official Body Count: 31.
Actual Body Count: Will never be known.
Andrei Chikatilo, serial killer. Official Body Count: 53.
Actual Body Count: Will never be known.
Two true stories of murder.
One true story of lies and corruption.
A documentary for the stage, examining the stories of serial killer Andrei Chikatilo and the 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor through a collage of found texts that reveal these two stories of mass death to be one story of institutional corruption in a theatrical autopsy where Art is the only scalpel sharp enough to cut through the mangled flesh of the lies to reveal the glowing fragment of truth underneath it all.
performed by David Arthur Bachrach*, Fred Backus, Aaron Baker, Olivia Baseman*, Adam Belvo, Eric Feldman, Ian W. Hill, Colleen Jasinski, Gavin Starr Kendall, Roger Nasser, Tom Reid, Melissa Roth, Patrick Shearer, Alyssa Simon*
August 7, 12, 15, 21, 23 and 27 at 8.00 pm
August 9, 16, and 30 at 3.00 pm
approximately 2 hours and 10 minutes long (including one intermission)
*****
BLOOD ON THE CAT'S NECK by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
(which is sometimes subtitled Marilyn Monroe vs. The Vampires) is a 1971 play by the iconoclastic playwright/filmmaker in which a beautiful, blonde, vampiric Amazon of a space alien is dropped into a bourgeois cocktail party with an unlikely group of guests in an attempt to learn about human beings, without much success, until her plundering of the guests’ minds becomes a more direct and physical acquisition of their life essences.
performed by Gyda Arber, Eric C. Bailey*, Danny Bowes, V. Orion Delwaterman, Rasheed Hinds, Toya Lillard, Samantha Mason, Amy Overman, Roger Nasser, Shelley Ray*
August 9, 14, 19, 22, 25 and 26 at 8.00 pm
August 8, 15, and 29 at 4.00 pm
approximately 80 minutes long
*****
GEORGE BATAILLE'S BATHROBE by Richard Foreman
An abstract play by that receives its first fully-staged American/English-Language production, interpreted here as the story of an elderly, controversial writer in a prison (perhaps real, perhaps metaphoric) on his dying day, as he is confronted with his memories and regrets made flesh, both tormenting him and attempting to help him pass out of this life with peace and acceptance.
performed by Sarah Malinda Engelke*, Liza Wade Green, Justin R.G. Holcomb*, Bob Laine, Kathryn Lawson, Patrice Miller, Timothy McCown Reynolds*, Bill Weeden*
August 8, 11, 13, 18, 20, 28 and 29 at 8.00 pm
August 22 and 23 at 4.00 pm
approximately 75 minutes long
*****
SACRIFICIAL OFFERINGS by David Finkelstein & Ian W. Hill
-- a dramaticule -- began as an improvisational performance duet created by the two authors as the basis for a multilayered video artwork by Mr. Finkelstein for his Lake Ivan Performance Group.
Mr. Hill has taken the improvised text and transformed it into the story of a drawing room séance among the upper class, with a version of Mr. Finkelstein’s video (Marvelous Discourse) presented mid-performance as the appearance of the “spirits” into the room.
performed by Eric C. Bailey*, Larry Gutman, Stephen Heskett, Justin R.G. Holcomb*, Kirill Khvenkin, Victoria Miller, Ben Robertson, Eve Udesky*
August 8, 14, 22, and 28 at 10.30 pm
August 16 and 30 at 8.00 pm
August 15, 23, and 29 at 2.00 pm
approximately 40 minutes long
**********
Tickets: $15.00 (except SACRIFICIAL OFFERINGS: $10.00)
Or 2 shows for $25.00, 3 for $35.00, or all four for $40.00!
All tickets available at Theatermania.com (212-352-3101)
www.bricktheater.com
*appears courtesy Actors' Equity Association
**********
DONATE TO GEMINI COLLISIONWORKS! IT'S TAX-DEDUCTIBLE!
1. If you wish to donate by check, they MUST be made out to "Fractured Atlas," with "Gemini CollisionWorks" in the memo line (and nowhere else), and should be given to us personally or sent to us for processing at:
Gemini CollisionWorks
c/o Hill-Johnson
367 Avenue S #1B
Brooklyn, NY 11223
2. You can also donate directly online securely by credit card at
https://www.fracturedatlas.org/donate/1394
(please double-check to be sure you're at the "Gemini CollisionWorks" donation page)
All donors (if donations are received by August 1) will be listed in all our programs for the 2009 season under the following categories with our current donors (donations after August 1 will appear in our 2010 programs):
$0-25 - BONDO
Edward Einhorn
David Finkelstein
$26-50 - RAT RODS
Lynn Berg
Citibank
$51-75 - CHROME
Sarah Engelke
Richard Foreman
$76-100 - LOW RIDERS
$101-250 - CANDY FLAKE
Centre Group Holdings
Wendy Coyle
Thomas Reid and Eileen White
$251-500 - FLAME JOBS
$501-1000 - T-BUCKETS
Luana Josvold & Gary Johnson
$1001-2500 - SUPERCHARGERS
$2501-5000 - KUSTOMIZERS
over $5000 - BIG DADDIES
hope to see you at the shows, and thanks for your continued support,
Ian W. Hill, arts
Berit Johnson, crafts
Gemini CollisionWorks
Gemini CollisionWorks is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions in behalf of Gemini CollisionWorks may be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
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Ian W. Hill/Gemini CollisionWorks online:
blog: CollisionWorks on LiveJournal
images: Gemini CollisionWorks on Flickr
info: Facebook page
store: CafePress Store
