Horse Trade Theater Group
presents
A Stolen Chair Theatre Company Production
Written By Kiran Rikye
Directed by Jon Stancato
Dramaturgy & Music by Emily Otto Sets & Lights by David Begali Costumes by May Elbaz Stage Management by Aviva Meyer Featuring:
Jon Campbell, Layna Fisher, Cameron J. Oro, and Alexia Vernon
Boy meets boy. Boy falls for boy. Turns out both guys are dolls. What's a girl to do? In Stolen Chair's newest collective creation Stage Kiss , a bawdy gender-bent romantic comedy in blank verse, love is blind…lust is blinder.
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85 East 4th
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between 2nd and 3rd Avenues
3rd Floor, no wheelchair access |
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May 3 – May 27 , 2006
Preview: Wednesday May 3rd @ 8pm
Thursdays Thru Saturdays May 11-27 @ 8pm
Tickets Regular: $15 /
$10 Students & Seniors with ID
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www.StolenChair.org
After its recent tour to the Initiation International Festival in Singapore, The Stolen Chair Theatre Company , one of NYtheatre.com's "People of the Year 2005," returns home to the East Village's The Red Room to present a follow-up to its critically acclaimed sold-out run of The Man Who Laughs (hailed as "Utterly tremendous" by TimeOut's Trav S.D. and "A triumph" by NYtheatre.com's Martin Denton).
In a significant departure from the company's last piece, a heartrending wordless melodrama, Stage Kiss is a collectively created gender farce in Elizabethan blank verse, freely inspired by John Lyly's Gallathea and written by Kiran Rikhye.
Two doting single parents independently disguise their chaste young daughters as men and send them off into a nearby forest to bide time until Neptune has had his fill at the village's annual sacrifice of young virgins. Gallathea and Phyllida, each believing the other to be a man, fall deeply in love…and lust. In their quests to obtain the objects of their affection, the two newly gender-questioning protagonists learn, with a little help from the goddess Venus, that love is many gendered thing, puncturing a Pandora's box of sexuality and desire.
In this ode to the Ridiculous aesthetic of the late Charles Ludlam , director Jon Stancato, draws on drag styles ranging from the Elizabeth boy-actor tradition to modernday drag queen performance, with each member of the ensemble cast transforming from male and female characters in a matter of seconds. With the two lead female protagonists played by a mixed gender duo (company members Alexia Vernon and Cameron Oro ), this production picks up where single gender classical ensembles like Cheek by Jowl and The Queen's Company leave off, provocatively blurring the lines between artifice and reality to create a carnal feast of comic delights.
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For more information about Stolen Chair Theatre Company.
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(L)Alexia Vernon (R)Cameron J. Oro
Photos by David Anthony |
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(L)Alexia Vernon (R)Cameron J. Oro Photos by David Anthony |
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(L)Alexia Vernon (R)Cameron J. Oro
Photos by David Anthony |
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(L)Cameron J. Oro (C) Layna Fisher (R)Alexia Vernon
Photos by David Anthony |
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