PRESENT IMPERFECT:
A GALLERY OF SHORT WORKS BY HAROLD PINTER
July 17-26, at Midway Studios in Fort PointSEEKING SUBMISSIONS FOR CIRCUS SIDESHOW
A Festival of New Work for the Stage
AND MORE...
Present
Directed by Caitlin Lowans and Brendan Shea
SEEKING SUBMISSIONS FOR CIRCUS SIDESHOW
Fort Point Theatre Channel seeks scripts, proposals, outlines, installations, etc.
Stay tuned for details on taking in, and taking part in, FPTC in the months to come. This fall, Rialto Arts will present Buccaneers of Buzz: Celebrating the Honeybee.
Imperfect:
A Gallery of Short Works by Harold Pinter
July 17-26
Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm
Sundays at 7 pm
Midway Studios, 15 Channel Center, Fort Point, Boston
With Kate Bailey, Lisa Caron Driscoll, Carlos M. Harris, Janelle Day Mills, Adam Sanders, and Brian Sergent
Set and Lighting Designers: Ian and Peter Agoos; Costume Designer: Sylvie Agudelo; Composer/Sound Designer: Lou Cohen; Props Designer: Cara Pacifico; Stage Manager: Vawnya Nichols;
Producer: Marc S. Miller; and Victoria Cyr, Kurt Cole Eidsvig, Silvia Graziano, Nick Thorkelson, Daniel J. van Ackere, and more
Tickets: $20
To purchase your tickets online please click on the ticket stub above.
To order by phone: 800-838-3006
This Fort Point Theatre Channel production honors the most important playwright of his generation and a 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature. Pinter's short works offer a less-familiar side of a playwright who is well known for haunting plays and tension-filled movie scripts. While maintaining his trademarks of conflict, complexity, and compassion, these six plays bring humor, even whimsy, into the equation and also convey the playwright's evolving concerns over the years.
Directors Caitlin Lowans and Brendan Shea discuss the production.
> A Kind of Alaska: A middle-aged woman wakes up after 30 years passed in a coma induced by sleeping sickness. In her mind she is still 16, and her attempts to
fathom the changed world into which she reemerges are poignant and emotionally charged and devastatingly brilliant theatre.
> New World Order: The fear and uncertainty conveyed by this short piece powerfully remind us that the evils of the world will always try to conquer us if we don't heed the warnings. It offers a strong indictment of today's world in a manner that is straightforward and subtle, dark and darkly humorous.
> Night: Two people sit at a table sipping coffee and talk about how they became lovers.
> Request Stop: In this brief monologue, a woman rehearses her interactions with a hostile world.
> Silence: A young girl's encounters with two male friends are told in three separate streams of thought, swimming with memories.
> Victoria Station: A dispatcher tries to direct a strangely vacant driver to a waiting fare. But Car 274 is already carrying a mysterious passenger.
A Festival of New Work for the Stage
Using the circus sideshow as unifying theme, we invite playwrights and filmmakers, musicians and dancers, acrobats and others to contribute new work or work in progress for an imaginative and challenging show that combines the wonderful and the weird, the familiar and the freaks, in an integrated evening of workshop performances and installations.
Honorarium: Contributors will receive $100-$500
The amount depends upon the length of a piece, production requirements, and other factors. As appropriate, Fort Point Theatre Channel will either produce the work or provide limited additional expenses for works produced by the contributor.
Length: 1 minute to 30 minutes
Possible Theatrical Genres/Acts: Musicians, dancers, comedians,
magicians, female/male impersonators, acrobats, one-act plays, video, films, minstrelsy, freak shows, burlesque, cabaret, etc.
Deadline: August 15, 2009 (one submission/person)
Questions? We encourage you to inquire before submitting a work or a proposal.
From the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s, in most any town of any size, curious onlookers would gather near the midway of the fair or the circus to hear sideshow barkers tout the wonders available to those willing to pay just a few cents to see what they couldn’t view anywhere else in those days . . . before international air travel and cable television . . . before the exploration of every corner of the planet seemed to rid the world of mystery.
Today, the sideshow is in a tough spot, but for that innocent time, it was one of the biggest draws in entertainment. Fort Point Theatre Channel believes the sideshow has meaning today even—or especially—in a world dominated by television, the Internet, and seemingly endless choices for our entertainment dollars and time.
Contact: writers@fortpointtheatrechannel.org
Also in the pipeline: salons, cabarets, an opera about the Marquis de Sade, and workshops on acting and writing first-person short-shorts and dramatic monologues. Also, possible productions of The Skin of Our Teeth, Hot L Baltimore, Krapp's Last Tape, and Hotel Cassiopeia, Charles Mee’s fantasy insired by the life and work of the master of assemblage art, Joseph Cornell.