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bobrauschenbergamerica
by Charles Mee

July 19-22, 2007
Long View Gallery
1302 19th Street NW DC

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A trip through a wildly familiar landscape in a play as one of America's greatest painters might have conceived: a Rauschenberg-esque collage of people, places, icons, music and dancing, of love stories and the sheer exhilaration of living in a country where people make up their lives as they go.

artistic collaborators

Carmen C. Wong - Director/Producer/Concept
Niell DuVal - Producer/Props/Carpentry
Levia Lew - Resident Lighting & Set Designer/Concept

Julie Allen - Video Assistance
Pruitt Y. Allen - Video Assistance
Danielle Mages Amato - Graphics Design/Dramaturgy Consultant
Jerry Busher - Sound Assistance
Ron Keith - Videography/Animation & Video Editing
Carrie Monger - Choreography
Susie Pamudji - Stage Manager
Joseph Price - Webmaster
Otis Ramsey-Zöe - Dramaturgy
Cort Smith - Video Editing
Meiyu Tsung - Press & Marketing
Glynnis Vance - Costume
Kristian Whipple - Photographer

Jessie Agus - Girl on Roller Skates
Dionne Audain - Allen
Jerry Busher - Becker & Wilson
Niell DuVal - Phil The Trucker (Puppet Model)
Gabriela Fernandez-Coffey - Susan & Voice of Phil's Girl
Carrie Monger - Carl
Meera Narasimhan - Bob's Mom

Special Thanks to...

Larissa Cyran & Drew Porterfield, and everyone at Long View Gallery
The Arena Stage Costume & Prop Shops
Breakwell's Coffee & Tea [@ 900 M St. NW Washington DC]
Select Printing & Frank Friedlieb
Joshua Chambers - Chef & Reception Caterer
Joel Dorsey - General Assistance
Frank DuVal - Promotional Artwork
Emily Gallagher - Technical Assistance
Dan Pruksarnukul - Casting Assistance
Joe Salasovich - Costume Assistance
Monica Sanjur - Puppet Set Assistance
Scott Shumaker - Catering
Glynnis Vance - Choreography Assistance

Alex Padro & Martin Moulton
Karina Lee Sudyatmiko & Agus Riyanto

Desire Caught by the Tail
by Pablo Picasso

July 20-23, 2006
1409 Playbill Cafe
1409 14th Street NW DC

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Desire: An Event in Multiple Parts

Desire: An Event in Multiple Parts will follow a series of episodes revolving around Pablo Picasso’s Desire Caught by the Tail culminating with a staged production.

Episode 1: Poetry Commissions
Deadline: ongoing until opening night
DC poets are commissioned to create short poems capturing the spirit of Picasso’s vibrant writing, to be performed as Entr’actes within the staged event. More information here.

Episode 2: Character InSTALLation
July 6th-14th
Pulp! (1803 14th Street NW) hosts an InSTALLation that is sure to raise giggles.

Episode 3: Scene Preview
Sunday, July 9 2:00pm
Theater J (1529 Q Street NW), in conjunction with its production of Ariel Dorfman’s Picasso’s Closet, hosts a free scene preview.

Episode 4: First Read
Friday, July 14 7:30pm
Candida's World of Books (1541 14th St. NW) hosts a public reading of a newly adapted version of Desire Caught by the Tail.

Episode 5: Teaser Preview
Saturday, July 15 7:30 PM
Gallery Plan B (1530 14th St. NW) hosts a dance and theatre spectacle.

Main Event: Staged Production
July 20-23
Thursday–Saturday at 7:30pm.; Sunday at 2:00pm and 7:00pm
1409 Playbill Café, 1409 14th St. NW
banished? productions reinterprets Picasso's wonderfully eccentric and deliciously insane play using a combination of theatre, dance, lighting design, multimedia and live music.

artistic collaborators

Carmen C. Wong - Artistic Producer/Concept Director
Niell DuVal - Producer/Props/Carpentry

Pruitt Y. Allen - Videography
Danielle Mages Amato - Dramaturgy/Poetry
Meisha Bosma - Choreography; Dancer: Anguish I
Frank Britton - Actor: Big Foot
Jean-Daniel Chablais - Translation
Clifton Duncan - Actor: Curtains/Silence
Naomi Jacobson - Voice: The Cousin
Matt Jordan - Sound/Set
Samantha LeBlanc - Poetry
John Lescault - Voice: Round End
Levia Lew - Lighting/Set/Concept
Tuyet Pham - Actor: Tart
Nicole Phillips - Choreography; Dancer: Anguish II
Joseph Price - Web/Poetry
Otis Ramsey-Zoe - Actor: Bow-Wows
Katherine Stebbins - Costume
Nikki Strong - Voice: Onion
Julie Young - Videography

 

Greenwood Follies   Other Old French Plays   Monday, October 17th 2005   7:00pm   The Arena Stage Education Facility   14th & T Streets, NW

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Greenwood Follies & Other Old French Plays featured the world premiere of three 13th century comedies translated by John DuVal, a nationally acclaimed poet and French scholar who was awarded an NEA grant for his research and translation of Adam de la Halle’s Greenwood Follies, one of the readings in this festival. The two other plays read were The Miracle of Theophile, and an excerpt from The Play of Adam. Published as the collection "From Adam to Adam: Seven Old French Plays", these English translations of a variety of medieval street drama sparkle with humor and poignancy and are wonderfully accessible to a modern audience. John DuVal honored the event by introducing these plays.

Andrew Grosso directed the readings which starred a stellar local cast that included: Michael John Casey, Ted Feldman, John Lescault, Hugh Nees, Jennifer Mendenhall and Paul Whitthorne (see program for bios).

Posters and copies of the book "From Adam to Adam: Seven Old French Plays" (co-authored by John DuVal and Raymond Eichmann) from which the readings are culled, were available for sale by Pegasus Press.