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Dec 7, 2024, 5:31:11 PM12/7/24
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*** FREE THEATER IN NYC ***
This Hanukkah at MyBiblioteka, come explore light and shadow in an interactive play session with Linda White, playcurator and founder of the Imagination Play Project!
Come explore open ended materials, and play with light and shadow in this session for all ages and abilities. Linda White, playcurator and founder of the Imagination Play Project, will introduce participants to the Imagination Play Project and give you a chance to explore and flex your curiousity and imagination with varius mediums and materials.
What began as a new way to engage with objects, has since planted its seeds in many different social and public spaces, from classrooms to courtyards. The vision of the experience is to connect a community through open-ended materials and play. Bring the whole family for an afternoon of guided curiousity!
For more information visit http://www.imaginationplayproject.com
Sunday, December 22 · 4 - 6pm EST
MyBiblioteka - 731 Washington Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11238
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hanukkah-with-the-imagination-play-project-at-mybiblioteka-tickets-1097658138039?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
*** RESISTING FASCISM ~ SEMI-FINALISTS ***
Congratulations to the playwrights who were chosen as semi-finalists out of almost one hundred plays and monologue we received for the RESISTING FASCISM project. Thanks to everybody who shared their work with us.
The finalists and award-winner will be announced Sunday, January 19, 2025.
We will begin posting excerpts from the semi-finalist and finalist scripts (with permission) beginning Monday January 20.
You can see an alphabetical list of the plays at the NYCPlaywrights website.
https://www.nycplaywrights.org/2024/12/resisting-fascism-semi-finalists.html
*** OPPORTUNITIES FOR PLAYWRIGHTS ***
As a continuation of Terrence McNally’s singular legacy of mentorship, and his commitment to fostering bold new voices in the American theater, the Terrence McNally New Works Incubator is designed to support ambitious early-career playwrights by giving them time and space to develop their work, professional mentorship with veteran playwrights, and access to the community of artists and work being developed at Rattlestick and Tom Kirdahy Productions.
Each McNally fellow will receive a one-time stipend of $7500 to be used as the playwright sees fit to best further their goals.
***
CURTAIN RISING is a Mini Reading Festival dedicated to uplifting early-stage playwrights and their untold stories. This initiative creates an inclusive platform for diverse voices, fostering dialogue on themes of alienation, reconciliation, and humanity. Through thought-provoking theater, we aim to inspire empathy, compassion, and social change.
***
Glass Ceiling Breakers 2025: A Festival of Short Plays and Films by Women Artists
GCB 2025 is scheduled for June 6, 7 and 8, 2025 at the Philipstown Depot Theatre in Garrison NY.
Plays must be written by female or female identifying playwrights.
They can be produced or unproduced plays. Feel free to send us plays that were produced years ago that you'd like to revisit! Plays that are currently being workshopped are also welcome.
*** FOR MORE INFORMATION about these and other opportunities see the web site at https://www.nycplaywrights.org ***
*** ANCIENT GREEK PHALLOI ***
Satyr Plays, sometimes referred to as the Phallic Plays, are short comedic pieces that were used as a kind of comic relief in between tragedies, especially at competitions, and can be traced back to 500bc.
A satyr is a half-man half-goat creature that was portrayed as being drunk, very sexual, and generally quite bawdy. The satyr character would sing and dance, drink and orgy, which brings up one of the more important parts of the Satyr Plays: the use of phallic props. Many of the pictures we have now of Satyr plays show satyr creatures with hilariously long phallic props that drag on the ground or that stood completely erect and were used to whack the other satyr players on stage.
More...
https://www.orphicplays.org/post/2016/07/04/cosmic-connection-the-satyr-plays
***
The ancient Greek play Lysistrata is a classic work of 411 BCE. The idea of ending the Peloponnesian War by denying all men the pleasure sex has somehow transcended time, translation and utter farce to the point of it most likely being one of the most performed plays in history. The immortal comedy opened this last weekend at Kordazone, complete with giant phalluses and droopy boobies – and yes, it was a blast.
More...
https://519magazine.com/giant-phalluses-and-droopy-boobies-it-must-be-lysistrata/
***
Phallus
Host Aaron Odom (@TridentTheatre) and guest Natalie Lander (Natalie Lander on IMDb) discuss the inclusion of a certain part of the male anatomy into Ancient Greek theatre and culture. WARNING – Sexually Explicit Material! You’ve been warned!
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-tdjmi-107439b
***
As I climb the stairs to the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, the stone theatre located southwest of the Acropolis, about 30 people – pagan celebrators – are putting the finishing touches on their tight-fitting costumes. Some are satyrs; others are dressed as Bacchides or in maenad costumes. Most are sporting Dionysian masks, some with pointy horns. Both men and women wear furry boots and wreaths of ivy, but it’s the male pagan outfits that come with a distinguishing addition – a leather phallus is tied around their pelvises. It’s a somewhat obscene look that enhances the sight of the colossal bright red and leatherbound phallic-shaped pole that stands before a cheeky figurehead of the Greek god Dionysus.
This is all part of Falliforia, a wild celebration thrown by the paganist communities of Athens to honour Dionysus, the half-man, half-goat god of wine, theatre, fertility, religious ecstasy and orgiastic joy. It’s a yearly festival held at the end of each winter that turns the historic centre of the city into an unhinged inferno.
“The phallus is not just the male part,” says Manthos, a pensive man with a grey mane of hair. He is a leading member of the Labrys religious community, the Greek polytheistic group behind Falliforia, a procession honouring freedom and rebellion, solidarity and joy, fertility and hedonic mania, and the Dionysian spirit.
More...
https://www.getlostmagazine.com/feature/long-live-dionysus/
***
My abiding memory of Tony Harrison’s The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus at the National Theatre in 1990 is of a chorus of clog-dancing satyrs with toweringly erect phalluses. Even if the mock penises in this revival tend to dangle, there is nothing limp about Jimmy Walters’ production, nor about a work that uses the discovery of a lost Greek satyr play to offer some sharp barbs on contemporary culture.
More...
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/jan/06/the-trackers-of-oxyrhynchus-review-sing-along-a-sophocles
***
Odysseus: Hang on, I’ve also got some money for you...
Silenus: Forget the money, just keep filling this cup up!
Odysseus: And you just bring out the cheese!
Silenus: All right. I’ll do that, even if it means I disobey my master!
Just a cup of this stuff and I’ll give you all of his sheep and all of the sheep of all the other Cyclopes; and then I’ll go jump off the Leucadian cliff, right into the salty sea below, thoroughly sloshed to the eyeballs and to my eyebrows which, by then, will have lost their frown! The man who doesn’t drink is mad!
Indicates his phallus Hahaha! One drink and a man can make this thing stand upright! Straight up! Upright and uptight! Hahahaha! One drink and a man can grab a woman’s breast, enjoy a woman’s shrub! And then, there’s all the lovely dancing and all the forgetting of worries…
Takes another gulp
So, why shouldn’t I drink such a drink? To Hades with that idiot, Cyclops and his single eye!
https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/Cyclops.php
This Hanukkah at MyBiblioteka, come explore light and shadow in an interactive play session with Linda White, playcurator and founder of the Imagination Play Project!
Come explore open ended materials, and play with light and shadow in this session for all ages and abilities. Linda White, playcurator and founder of the Imagination Play Project, will introduce participants to the Imagination Play Project and give you a chance to explore and flex your curiousity and imagination with varius mediums and materials.
What began as a new way to engage with objects, has since planted its seeds in many different social and public spaces, from classrooms to courtyards. The vision of the experience is to connect a community through open-ended materials and play. Bring the whole family for an afternoon of guided curiousity!
For more information visit http://www.imaginationplayproject.com
Sunday, December 22 · 4 - 6pm EST
MyBiblioteka - 731 Washington Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11238
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hanukkah-with-the-imagination-play-project-at-mybiblioteka-tickets-1097658138039?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
*** RESISTING FASCISM ~ SEMI-FINALISTS ***
Congratulations to the playwrights who were chosen as semi-finalists out of almost one hundred plays and monologue we received for the RESISTING FASCISM project. Thanks to everybody who shared their work with us.
The finalists and award-winner will be announced Sunday, January 19, 2025.
We will begin posting excerpts from the semi-finalist and finalist scripts (with permission) beginning Monday January 20.
You can see an alphabetical list of the plays at the NYCPlaywrights website.
https://www.nycplaywrights.org/2024/12/resisting-fascism-semi-finalists.html
*** OPPORTUNITIES FOR PLAYWRIGHTS ***
As a continuation of Terrence McNally’s singular legacy of mentorship, and his commitment to fostering bold new voices in the American theater, the Terrence McNally New Works Incubator is designed to support ambitious early-career playwrights by giving them time and space to develop their work, professional mentorship with veteran playwrights, and access to the community of artists and work being developed at Rattlestick and Tom Kirdahy Productions.
Each McNally fellow will receive a one-time stipend of $7500 to be used as the playwright sees fit to best further their goals.
***
CURTAIN RISING is a Mini Reading Festival dedicated to uplifting early-stage playwrights and their untold stories. This initiative creates an inclusive platform for diverse voices, fostering dialogue on themes of alienation, reconciliation, and humanity. Through thought-provoking theater, we aim to inspire empathy, compassion, and social change.
***
Glass Ceiling Breakers 2025: A Festival of Short Plays and Films by Women Artists
GCB 2025 is scheduled for June 6, 7 and 8, 2025 at the Philipstown Depot Theatre in Garrison NY.
Plays must be written by female or female identifying playwrights.
They can be produced or unproduced plays. Feel free to send us plays that were produced years ago that you'd like to revisit! Plays that are currently being workshopped are also welcome.
*** FOR MORE INFORMATION about these and other opportunities see the web site at https://www.nycplaywrights.org ***
*** ANCIENT GREEK PHALLOI ***
Satyr Plays, sometimes referred to as the Phallic Plays, are short comedic pieces that were used as a kind of comic relief in between tragedies, especially at competitions, and can be traced back to 500bc.
A satyr is a half-man half-goat creature that was portrayed as being drunk, very sexual, and generally quite bawdy. The satyr character would sing and dance, drink and orgy, which brings up one of the more important parts of the Satyr Plays: the use of phallic props. Many of the pictures we have now of Satyr plays show satyr creatures with hilariously long phallic props that drag on the ground or that stood completely erect and were used to whack the other satyr players on stage.
More...
https://www.orphicplays.org/post/2016/07/04/cosmic-connection-the-satyr-plays
***
The ancient Greek play Lysistrata is a classic work of 411 BCE. The idea of ending the Peloponnesian War by denying all men the pleasure sex has somehow transcended time, translation and utter farce to the point of it most likely being one of the most performed plays in history. The immortal comedy opened this last weekend at Kordazone, complete with giant phalluses and droopy boobies – and yes, it was a blast.
More...
https://519magazine.com/giant-phalluses-and-droopy-boobies-it-must-be-lysistrata/
***
Phallus
Host Aaron Odom (@TridentTheatre) and guest Natalie Lander (Natalie Lander on IMDb) discuss the inclusion of a certain part of the male anatomy into Ancient Greek theatre and culture. WARNING – Sexually Explicit Material! You’ve been warned!
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-tdjmi-107439b
***
Costumes for tragedy and comedy actors. A tragedy actor wears a costume with long sleeves and a long hem. Comedy actors have short skirts with a fake phallus dangling underneath. All wear masks covering the whole head.
https://disco.teak.fi/tanssin-historia/en/dancing-chorus-in-ancient-greek-drama/
Costumes for tragedy and comedy actors. A tragedy actor wears a costume with long sleeves and a long hem. Comedy actors have short skirts with a fake phallus dangling underneath. All wear masks covering the whole head.
https://disco.teak.fi/tanssin-historia/en/dancing-chorus-in-ancient-greek-drama/
***
As I climb the stairs to the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, the stone theatre located southwest of the Acropolis, about 30 people – pagan celebrators – are putting the finishing touches on their tight-fitting costumes. Some are satyrs; others are dressed as Bacchides or in maenad costumes. Most are sporting Dionysian masks, some with pointy horns. Both men and women wear furry boots and wreaths of ivy, but it’s the male pagan outfits that come with a distinguishing addition – a leather phallus is tied around their pelvises. It’s a somewhat obscene look that enhances the sight of the colossal bright red and leatherbound phallic-shaped pole that stands before a cheeky figurehead of the Greek god Dionysus.
This is all part of Falliforia, a wild celebration thrown by the paganist communities of Athens to honour Dionysus, the half-man, half-goat god of wine, theatre, fertility, religious ecstasy and orgiastic joy. It’s a yearly festival held at the end of each winter that turns the historic centre of the city into an unhinged inferno.
“The phallus is not just the male part,” says Manthos, a pensive man with a grey mane of hair. He is a leading member of the Labrys religious community, the Greek polytheistic group behind Falliforia, a procession honouring freedom and rebellion, solidarity and joy, fertility and hedonic mania, and the Dionysian spirit.
More...
https://www.getlostmagazine.com/feature/long-live-dionysus/
***
My abiding memory of Tony Harrison’s The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus at the National Theatre in 1990 is of a chorus of clog-dancing satyrs with toweringly erect phalluses. Even if the mock penises in this revival tend to dangle, there is nothing limp about Jimmy Walters’ production, nor about a work that uses the discovery of a lost Greek satyr play to offer some sharp barbs on contemporary culture.
More...
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/jan/06/the-trackers-of-oxyrhynchus-review-sing-along-a-sophocles
***
Odysseus: Hang on, I’ve also got some money for you...
Silenus: Forget the money, just keep filling this cup up!
Odysseus: And you just bring out the cheese!
Silenus: All right. I’ll do that, even if it means I disobey my master!
Just a cup of this stuff and I’ll give you all of his sheep and all of the sheep of all the other Cyclopes; and then I’ll go jump off the Leucadian cliff, right into the salty sea below, thoroughly sloshed to the eyeballs and to my eyebrows which, by then, will have lost their frown! The man who doesn’t drink is mad!
Indicates his phallus Hahaha! One drink and a man can make this thing stand upright! Straight up! Upright and uptight! Hahahaha! One drink and a man can grab a woman’s breast, enjoy a woman’s shrub! And then, there’s all the lovely dancing and all the forgetting of worries…
Takes another gulp
So, why shouldn’t I drink such a drink? To Hades with that idiot, Cyclops and his single eye!
https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/Cyclops.php
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