Under The Radar Sneak Peek
Meiyin Wang
Dear UTR friends,
It’s a real sneak peek indeed when the left margin is cut off. Thanks for the quick response!
Best,
Meiyin
UNDER THE RADAR “A festival tracking new theater”
New York City, January 16 to January 28, 2007
Under the Radar is an annual festival that highlights contemporary, adventurous and independent theater from around the world. Now in its third year, the festival features 11 full scale performances at The Public Theater and 4 off site performances from the U.S., U.K., Canada, and Bolivia. Under the Radar will also sponsor a series of talks with the festival artists open to the general public. The festival is arranged so that audiences can see most of the presentations within a 3 day period.
Under the Radar Festival Symposium takes place Jan 18 and 19 and features a chance to see full productions of the festival shows as well as keynote speakers and expert panel discussions addressing the issues of producing and presenting theater in America. Attendance to the symposium is limited to professionals in the field and 225 attendees. For more information on the symposium and the festival, please contact Meiyin Wang at mw...@publictheater.org or 1.212.539.8511.
Under The Radar 2007 is a program of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters Annual Members Conference, with major funding by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Ford Foundation. The festival is produced by The Public Theater and Mark Russell.
The Public Theater
Founded by Joseph Papp in 1954 as the Shakespeare Workshop and now one of the nation’s pre-eminent cultural institutions, The Public is a theater in which all the country’s voices, rhythms, and cultures converge. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Mara Manus, The Public is an American theater that embraces the complexities of contemporary society and nurtures both artists and audiences through its commitment to the idea that The Public should be a place of inclusion and a forum for ideas.
Oskar Eustis Artistic Director
Mara Manus Executive Director
Under the Radar Festival
Mark Russell Producer
Meiyin Wang Associate Producer
Olga Garay Senior Advisor
Listings
All shows at The Public Theater unless otherwise noted.
*Please note programming and dates are subject to change
A BEAUTIFUL VIEW (CANADA) Jan 18 – Jan 28, 2007
Daniel MacIvor / da da kamera
A Beautiful View plays out the story of the relationship between two women, Michelle and Liz, how they came together and split up, met again and split up again, and meet again and realize that's it's impossible to let go of something when it's holding on to you. A Beautiful View is a play that believes in love, three times.
ANOTHER YOU (Seattle) Jan 17 – Jan 28, 2007
Written and performed by Allen Johnson
Another You employs kinetic storytelling that incorporates incantatory speech with a healthy dose of profanity, resulting in a brutally honest portrait of human recklessness and vulnerability.
DEAD SET #3 (USA) Jan 18-Jan 21, 2007
Caden Manson / Big Art Group
An explosive hybrid performance of video and theatre, DEAD SET#3 explores the embodiment of trauma through a synthesis of reenacted pirated dialogue, borrowed online chats, and choreographic action derived from sampled movement.
thekitchen.org, bigartgroup.com
EN UN SOL AMARILLO (MEMORIAS DES UN TEMBLOR) (BOLIVIA) Jan 18- Jan 21, 2007
Teatro De Los Andes, Directed by Cesar Brie
A tragi-comic recollection of testimonies gathered from different communities of Bolivia after the grand earthquake in 1998, performed by one of Bolivia’s most influential theatre groups.
FAMOUS PUPPET DEATH SCENES (CANADA) Jan 18-Jan 21, 2007
The Old Trout Puppet Workshop
Through a collection of famous scenes culled from the absolute best puppet shows in history, The Old Trouts promise to cure your fear of death.
GET YOUR WAR ON (Austin, TX) Jan 16-Jan 28, 2007
Rude Mechanicals, Adapted from the internet comic strip by David Rees
Get Your War On represents stunned and outraged Americans as they react to the Bush administration and this totally awesome War On Terror.
59E59
INVINCIBLE SUMMER (New York) Jan 18-Jan 28, 2007
Written and performed by Mike Daisey, Directed by Jean-Michele Gregory
Mike Daisey tells his story of the last glorious summer in New York City before everything changed.
MUST DON’T WHIP ‘UM (New York) Jan 16-Jan 28 2007
Written and performed by Cynthia Hopkins
In collaboration with Jim Findlay and Jeff Sugg, featuring Gloria Deluxe
A Last Waltz style farewell concert performance of an obscure 70s pop star -- on the eve of her disappearance.
St Ann’s Warehouse
NINE YEARS (UK) Jan 18 – Jan 21, 2007
Lone Twin
Nine years and seven hundred performances later, performance duo Lone Twin sets out to re-present their entire body work to date.
NO DICE (New York) Jan 18-Jan 21, 2007
Work-in-progress - Not for review
Nature Theatre of Oklahoma, Conceived and directed by Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper
An epic of the everyday blown to transcendental proportions, No Dice takes over one hundred hours of the company's recorded telephone conversations and filters them through the conventions of amateur dinner theater to arrive at a uniquely mind-altering experience.
Downtown Art
RADIO MACBETH (New York) Jan 18- Jan 21, 2007
Work-in-progress - Not for review
Conceived and Directed by Anne Bogart, Performed and Created by SITI Company
Radio MacBeth takes place late at night in the guts of an abandoned theater. Actors circle around a rehearsal table, moving through the bullet of Shakespeare's most magnetic play.
THE BEAST OF TAYLOR MAC (New York) One Night Only Jan 21, 2007
Written and performed by Taylor Mac
“A legend on New York's performance art scene, he's a songwriting, playwriting, ukulele-strumming wonder.”
THE BROTHERS SIZE (New Haven) Jan 18 – Jan 28, 2007
Written by Tarell McCraney, Directed by Tea Alagic, Produced by the Foundry Theater
Playing fast and loose with West African myths, The Brothers Size brings contemporary rhythms together with traditions of ceremonial presentation to tell a story that transcends culture and time.
TWO SONGS (San Francisco) Jan 18 – Jan 28, 2007
Performed by John O’Keefe
John O’Keefe performs his own Sunshine is a Glorious Bird and Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself -- Two virtuoso works celebrating the self and the enduring American spirit in these divisive and troubling times.
Johnokeefe.org
Meiyin Wang
Associate Producer
Under the Radar Festival January 2007
The Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street/New York, NY 10003
Office: 212-539-8511
Email: mw...@publictheater.org
Under the Radar
“A festival tracking new theater”
Under the Radar Festival 2007 is a program of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters Annual Members Conference, with major funding by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Ford Foundation. The festival is produced by Mark Russell and The Public Theater. www.undertheradarfestival.com