[NEohioPAL] CPT announces Big [BOX] 2010

[Mindy Herman]

Cleveland Public Theatre Presents Big [BOX]

Award-winning artists in residency program returns for 8th year

 

Cleveland Public Theatre Executive Artistic Director Raymond Bobgan is
proud to announce the participating artists for the 2010 Big [BOX]
series.  Big [BOX] is an award-winning residency program produced by
Cleveland Public Theatre that focuses on the independent creative artist
and the exciting things that can happen when one is given the space and
time to create. Cleveland Public Theatre is proud to support and foster
the work of area artists in this unique program. Over eight weekends,
local artists are given keys to The James Levin Theatre and the freedom
to transform the space for the presentation of their work.  

 

The goal of Big [BOX] is to support new work and local artists. 

 

CPT provides: 

*         The James Levin Theatre

*         Basic production staff, stage management, box office support 

*         Marketing and advertising support

 

The artists provide the rest! The writers, directors, actors, and
designers selected for big box dedicate themselves to creating new and
original work, or stretching their artistic powers by working in new
disciplines. The resulting performances are always amazing and well
attended. Big [BOX] performances and artists often go on to receive
larger exposure and production at CPT. 

 

The mission of Cleveland Public Theatre is to raise consciousness and
nurture compassion through ground breaking performances and life
changing educational programs. Cleveland Public Theatre is an
alternative performance company with a commitment to help develop
original theatre artists from the Cleveland area; Big [BOX] is one
performance series dedicated to this goal.

 

Big [Box]

January 15 - March 7, 2010

Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm

Sundays at 3:00pm

Tickets:  General Admission $15 | Students and Seniors $12

 

 

January 15th - January 17th 
Kill Will
Created and performed by Josh Brown and Kelly Elliott
Directed by Alison Garrigan

Suicide. Revenge killings. Murders. Cannibalism. Is this the new Quentin
Tarantino movie? No, it's Shakespeare! William Shakespeare - Sweet Bard
of Avon or Shameless Merchant of Death? Kill Will will make you laugh,
make you cringe, and make you wish you hadn't dressed up so nicely for
the theater. Because there will be blood. Oh yes, there
will...be...blood.

 

Cramped 
Presented by Three Steps Back
Featuring Carly Garinger and Danielle Hisey
Directed by Doug Snyder

Pressure, Fear, Inadequacy - Cramped is the riveting exploration of two
young women's coming of age, set inside a children's board game. The
protagonists are intertwined, but not connected, individually struggling
to come to terms with their own identity and mortality, while
simultaneously playing a life-size board game that challenges them
physically, emotionally and spiritually.

 

January 22nd  - January 24th
People4Change
Presented by The Them
Directed by Raymond Bobgan

Three Gen-Y'ers join forces to make a difference in the world after a
random experience brings them together. Their efforts to "help the
world," range from the naive to the sublime when they open a phone book
and start calling random people for donations to their various causes.
In a world inundated with global information (and global suffering),
self-help and spiritual panaceas, and contradictory common values,
People4Change examines the frustration, isolation, and passion of young
professionals in North America.

 

January 29th - January 31st  

Microscopes and Megaphones
Presented by Whisper to a Scream: a feminist theatre company
Directed by Maura Haas


Microscopes & Megaphones is a collaborative project that uses dance,
theatre, audio and visual arts to explore "the problem that has no name"
plaguing the modern woman today. With progress made in reproductive
choice, education, the workplace and at home, the modern Western woman's
oppression manifests itself through subtlety, innuendo and the places
you least expect. Offbeat and stripped down, Microscopes & Megaphones
explores slutty fat girls, an oral sex memoir, baking as foreplay, the
power of punctuations, the hypocrisy of language, degrees of touch and
why Mom is the sexiest woman you know. 

 

February 5th - February 7th 

G.S.
Written by Jonathan Wilhelm
Directed by Jenna Messina

"Supposing everyone lived at one time, what would they say?" - Gertrude
Stein

In G.S., Gertrude Stein finds herself sharing a flat in Paris with
George Sand, along with their respective lovers, Alice B. Toklas and
Alfred de Musset. Can a self-proclaimed genius learn about creating art
from a self-professed hack? Can a serial monogamist learn about love
from devoted lesbians? More importantly, what will Alice serve for
dinner? For mature audiences only. Full male and partial female nudity.

 

 

February 12th - February 14th 

Extra!, Extra!
Presented by FiveOne, Carly Dorman and Sara Lawrence-Sucato

Coming together again in an original collaboration, Cleveland's premier
new music ensemble FiveOne and dancers and choreographers Carly Dorman
and Sara Lawrence-Sucato deliver the news. From the front page to the
back of your mind, this performance promises a dynamic and physical
journey through our daily newspaper.


February 19th - February 21st 

Concentric Cycles
Choreographed and Performed by Lisa K. Lock.

Choreographer and performer Lisa K. Lock's new work ponders questions
about the privilege of owning a body, in a fable of incarnating souls.
As time passes, memories weave a fabric that connects with the present,
shaping every moment of our lives. A mysterious karmic tale that spans a
lifetime repetitively gives second chances and allows for grasping
wisdom through mistakes made in the heat of passion. 



Dirt
Choreographed and Performed by Michael Medcalf

Dirt is the title piece and the first installment of a multimedia dance
trilogy loosely inspired by the book The Prophet by poet, philosopher
and artist Kahlil Gibran. Dirt is a solo dance piece performed by
Medcalf along with live musicians and projected video.

 

February 26th - February 28th 
Hum
Written by Sebastian H. Orr

In Hum, four characters gently weave their disparate narratives. A
letter from a long-forgotten ex-girlfriend, a monster in the backyard, a
math lesson, and a road trip to the Ohio Caverns. Four very different
stories with one ominous, unifying thread. "Apparently Dan was just
gone. He hadn't left a note or anything and he just wasn't there.
Vanished. And so I suggested Randall take a look to see if Dan's car was
still there, but Randall said Dan always got a ride, and poor Randall.
He just didn't know what to do."

 

March 5th - March 7th 

McInjun
Written and performed by Cat Kenney
Directed by Lisa Ortenzi

McInjun is the story of a geeky 15-year-old half-Seminole, half-Irish
boy, new to the city of Cleveland, but not new to the feelings of
isolation that being the oddest of all outsiders brings. When the bus
leaves him stranded, he must make a late-night journey through Cleveland
from the Playhouse to his home in Bay Village. With folktales, memory,
and imagination, he combats fear, fatigue, and the unknown as he
struggles to find his own path home. 

HonkFest!
Created by James Krouse

HonkFest! 2010 is coming to Cleveland, and you're invited. HonkFest! is
a festival of arts, culture, and ideas presented every year in Hohonkus,
NJ. Originally conceived as the Hohonkus Festival of Arts, Culture, and
Ideas in 1998 by the Hohonkus League of Women Leaders (with Jean
Brackenbridge as the Executive Director), the festival was rebranded
this past year as HonkFest! and now incorporates talent from all over
the world under the leadership of Greg Musmeci, Artistic Liaison. Come
hear actual Hohonks (as they like to be called) discuss art, culture,
and their personal lives. Not necessarily in that order.

 

 

For more information about Big [BOX], including more detailed
descriptions of the presented works and artist biographies, please visit
www.cptonline.org <http://www.cptonline.org/>  or contact Mindy Herman,
Director of Communications, at 216.631.2727 x 203 or
mherman at cptonline.org

 

 

 

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