Brett Singer & Associates, LLC
Soho Think
Tank presents
April 3, 2008 – Soho Think Tank will
present Kirk Wood Bromley's latest play, Me, directed by
Alec Duffy. Performances will be at the Ohio Theater, located at 66 Wooster Street, between Spring and Broome Streets in
Soho. Performances will begin on Saturday, May 3rd, continuing through Saturday, May 24th.
About The Play
When Kirk Wood Bromley set out to
write a play about himself, the result was something other than a simple
autobiography. Similar to Charlie Kaufman's film ”Adaptation," where the
author set out to adapt a novel but ended up writing a film about a writer
trying to adapt a novel, Me is a theatrical meditation on
self-identity, where Bromley starts out looking to write a play about himself
and takes detours through his personal relationship with his placenta, the
recent extinction of the white river dolphin of the Yangtze in China, and just
what exactly he means when he says, "I am the chosen fish, chosen by me
/ To save the planet from humanity."
The myth of the origin of the white
dolphin (a girl thrown into the Yangtze river because she refused to marry),
discourses on definitions of self, and personal parental histories of the
author all find their place in this swirling, humorous and challenging work.
The play culminates with a live fish being brought on stage and the audience
being asked to decide one question: should the fish be pulled from its
tank and sacrificed for the play?
Bromley's part verse, part prose, all
poetic script is matched by John Gideon's mesmerizing and eclectic music, Karen
Flood's imaginative and wild costumes, Jane Stein's stunning puppets and
properties, and Jeff Stein's unconventional but magical lighting. A cast of 13
performs this play with 15 songs performed live by the cast and composer.
About The Author
Author Kirk Wood Bromley is
the Artistic Director and Playwright for Inverse Theater Company. He is
the recipient of the 2001 Berrilla Kerr Foundation Playwrights Award, and his
plays have won two Fringe Awards – Excellence in Playwriting (2002) and
Excellence in Music and Lyrics (2003). Inverse Theater won Best Downtown
Theater in the New York Press in 2001, and also the first ever Caffe Cino Award
for Excellence in Off-Off-Broadway by the New York Innovative Theater Awards.
Seventeen of his plays have been produced in NYC, London, Los Angeles, San
Francisco, Cleveland, and numerous US colleges. Recent productions include No
More Pretending (Ice Factory Festival, 2007), The Death of Griffin
Hunter (Brick Theater, 2007), Syndrome (Neurofest, 2007), Three
Dollar Bill (Center Stage, 2006), The Banger's Flopera (fringeNYC
and NYMF, 2005), On the Origin of Darwin (Connelly, 2004), and Lost –
The Musical (New York Fringe Festival and Connelly, 2003). For more
information go to www.inversetheater.org.
About Soho Think Tank and the Ohio Theater
Soho Think Tank (STT) is the OBIE award-winning theatre
company that has been producing, presenting, and programming new work at the
Ohio Theatre in New York City for 15 years.
STT supports like-minded downtown theatre companies and artists through
multiple programs, including The 6th Floor Series (reading series), Ice Factory
(summer festival), STT Presents (presenting program), and the Ohio Theatre
Project (curated programming of the Ohio Theatre). Under the leadership of Artistic Director
Robert Lyons, the Ohio Theatre is widely recognized as an
indispensable pillar of the downtown theatre community. For more information go to
sohothinktank.org.
About The Cast
The cast
includes Arthur Aulisi* ("Denis Leary's Merry F#%$in Christmas"),
Lora Chio* ("Law & Order"), Drew Cortese* (Public Theatre,
FringeNYC), Sarah Engelke* (four Inverse Theater shows, others), Josh Hartung (Banger's
Flopera), Bob Laine (many Inverse productions), Meagan Prahl* (Closet
Case at The Lion), Dan Renkin* (Culture Project, Inverse), Annie Scott,
Erwin Thomas*, Paula Wilson* (Alvin Ailey dancer, recurring role on "All
My Children"), Brenda Withers* (one of the creators of the off-Broadway
hit Matt and Ben), and Marshall York. (* indicates the actor is a member
of Actors' Equity Association.) Ruthie Turk will serve as Production Manager.
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About The Artistic Team
Director Alec Duffy is the Artistic Director of the theater
company Hoi Polloi. This past summer,
The Ontological Theater presented Hoi Polloi's Dysphoria as part of
their Summer Residency. Duffy's play The
Top Ten People Of The Millennium Sing Their Favorite Schubert Lieder was
produced at the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago and the Bank Street Theatre
in New York, and was recently published in the collection Plays and
Playwrights 2006, edited by Martin Denton. Duffy was selected by The Drama
League as one of four directors nationally to be awarded the Drama League
Directing Fellowship. Duffy was also recently selected for the NEA/TCG Career
Development Program for Directors.
Jill Guidera, whose work has been seen at
Galapagos Art Space, PS122, and Soho Rep, will be the choreographer. John
Gideon, a composer and musician who first collaborated with Inverse on The
Banger's Flopera - A Musical Perversion, will contribute the original music
for the 15 songs in Me.
About The Designers
Jane Stein (Set Design) is a sculptor who has
created sets, masks, props, puppets and photographs for eight Inverse shows.
Her work has appeared in productions on Broadway, Off-Broadway, dance, opera
and television. She began her
theatrical work as a mask maker for the New York Shakespeare Festival and has
contributed work to many Broadway shows including Lenny, Jesus Christ
Superstar, and Bette Midler's Clams On The Half Shell Review. Her
dance credits include masks for Martha Graham, New York Baroque Dance Company,
Buglisi Dance Theatre and My-Yi Co.
Jeff Nash (Lighting Design) has designed lights
for Robert Wilson, John Jesurun, Natsu Nakajima, Ellen Stewart, Stuart Sherman,
John Vaccaro, Gian Carlo Minetti, and Kirk Wood Bromley.
Karen Flood (Costume Design) has designed
costumes for theater, film, television, and advertising for over 10 years. She
recently created costumes for a multi faceted performance entitled Fascinating
Gershwin, by violinist Janice Martin, in which the costumes change on
stage, before the very eyes of the audience.
Tickets and Schedule
ME will begin performances on Saturday, May 3rd and will continue May 24th. All
performances will be at 8pm and the schedule will be as follows:
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Tickets will be $18.00 for all performances except for Tuesdays, which
will be $10. Tickets may be purchased by calling Smarttix at 212-868-4444, or online at smarttix.com.
Directed by
Alec Duffy
At the Ohio
Theater, 66 Wooster Street between Spring and Broome Streets
Saturday
and Sunday, May 3 and 4
Wed – Sat,
May 7 – 10
Tue – Sat,
May 13 – 17
Tue – Sat,
May 20 – 24
TICKETS:
$18; $10 for students and seniors; $10 on Tuesday, May 13 and Tuesday, May 20
Call
212-868-4444, or order online at www.smarttix.com
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Phone: (212) 307-7181 Fax: (212) 813-9162