UGZ tag:www.collectiveunconsciousnyc.org,2009-06-16:/ugz//1 2009-06-30T00:43:15Z Movable Type Commercial 4.21-en We Are Being Held tag:www.collectiveunconsciousnyc.org,2009:/ugz//1.19 2009-06-26T01:48:32Z 2009-06-30T00:43:15Z Paul Replikas of Apocalypsis Cum Figuris & The Constant Prince tag:www.collectiveunconsciousnyc.org,2009:/ugz//1.18 2009-06-26T00:33:45Z 2009-06-30T16:17:01Z Paul Evanston: A Rare Comedy tag:www.collectiveunconsciousnyc.org,2009:/ugz//1.17 2009-06-26T00:23:37Z 2009-07-03T20:36:05Z EVANSTON: A RARE COMEDY begins with the disappearance of a teenage girl in deepest suburbia and ends when a meeting of The Evanston Women's Book Club goes horribly awry. In between, a transgender student dreams of death, a housewife dreams... Paul Mexico, an economics professor has an affair with a Whole Foods check-out clerk, and the financial crisis rages on. The latest show from the Wolf 359 team - director Michael Rau and writer/performer Michael Yates Crowley - takes a chainsaw to language, convention, and pretension to create a new kind of American story-telling: raw, sexy, and painfully funny. Inspired by the words of Psalm 137 and the streets of Evanston, Illinois, A RARE COMEDY asks: how can we sing a song of joy in this strange land?]]> playgroundzero tag:www.collectiveunconsciousnyc.org,2009:/ugz//1.16 2009-06-26T00:16:21Z 2009-07-10T16:32:49Z playgroundzero is a series of script-in hand readings of bold, provocative, and thought provoking news plays, curated by playwright Saviana Stanescu as part of the undergroundzero festival at Performance Space 122.playgroundzero aims to offer exposure to plays that are highly... Paul
playgroundzero aims to offer exposure to plays that are highly original, risk-taking, innovative, bold and provocative.  If you want to be predictably entertained with another well-done dramatic-recipe, playgroundzero is not for you. We like to play, we like theatre and theatricality, we like to challenge the audiences and we believe that theatre's role in society is to make people think and push their limits. playgroundzero is about that zero hour of your conscience when you are ready to understand/learn something new, play with a new idea, accept a new thought. You are allowed to be both childish and wise, as long as you are open and curious.

Me You Us Them
Saturday, July 11 @ 3:30pm
Written by Andrea Lepcio
Directed & choreographed by Zach Morris
Two boys spot each other across a vacant lot anywhere in the world - Zamzama Street in Karachi, Haifa Street in Baghdad or Jerome Avenue in the Bronx. Hungry, lonely, bored and without hope, they form a bond through their poetic language and extreme street dance moves. A modern woman frightened by the world around her and her inadequate response searches on-line alone.  At the moment she realizes she needs to search for questions, not answers, in a Second Life or Avatar way, she becomes Z, the boys' friend of a friend. Together, they make a plan to blow up the Center of Things.

Incomplete and Beautiful
Sunday, July 12 @ 2:30pm
Presented by Wax Factory
Written & directed by Nathaniel Kressen
First produced as a student show at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Incomplete and Beautiful is a hilarious coming-of-age story set in the gentrified East Village of NYC. Illegal substances, proximity infatuations, and 3-square pasta meals a day collide as a group of young artists struggle to make their mark in a world without safety nets.

For A Barbarian Woman
Saturday, July 18 @ 2:30pm
Written by Saviana Stanescu
Directed by Paul Bargetto
The play interweaves a present-day love story between a Romanian woman and an American colonel from the NATO base in Constanta (a Romanian city at the Black Sea, built on the ruins of the ancient city TOMIS where the Roman poet Ovid was exiled sometime around year 8 AD) and a fictional relationship between Ovid and a Barbarian woman from Tomis.

Vattago
Saturday, July 25 @ 2:30pm
Written by Ian Cohen
Directed by Sarah Rasmussen
The demon, VATTAGO, infiltrates the home and workplace of Matt Ross, resulting in chaos and death. A comedy.

Torrents
Sunday, July 26 @ 3:30pm
Written by Robert Attenweiler
Directed by Margarett Perry
Three local townspeople have recently gone missing and police officer Claire Torrence believes these disappearances are connected.  But are they also connected to her sister, Rose, a militia member, or to Bill Daniels, a local carpenter, who might just be the second coming of Jesus Christ?
]]> The Misanthrope tag:www.collectiveunconsciousnyc.org,2009:/ugz//1.15 2009-06-26T00:08:21Z 2009-06-30T14:32:53Z Paul The Misanthrope is an ensemble-created contemporary explosion of Moliere's classic social comedy inspired in equal part by Ingmar Bergman, indie rock, and the New York rental market, it explores the nature of desire in our generation.  The world is both familiar and strange - set in present day New York among a group of artists and intellectuals, The Misanthrope looks at how we form and destroy our social communities.  Feelings of love, desire, jealously and insecurity are masked and unmasked throughout the play in comedic and dramatic fashion with music, movement, and verse.]]> Winter Journey tag:www.collectiveunconsciousnyc.org,2009:/ugz//1.14 2009-06-25T23:59:37Z 2009-06-29T20:46:45Z Paul Selling Splitsville tag:www.collectiveunconsciousnyc.org,2009:/ugz//1.13 2009-06-25T23:54:11Z 2009-06-30T01:05:29Z Paul tales from bordertown (prologue) tag:www.collectiveunconsciousnyc.org,2009:/ugz//1.12 2009-06-25T23:45:21Z 2009-06-30T03:11:56Z Let's get lost. Performing in the oral tradition of the epic poets downtown New York performer Eric Dean Scott follows a trail of dreams, mystic poetry, jazz recollection (and loss) through South American border towns, the lost Road east, Dylan... Paul New Orleans - taking us on a race for the River along the razor's edge...past shore, past time, past place....where we find ourselves in bordertown. Again.]]> I am Trying to Hear Myself and Vandam Goodbar tag:www.collectiveunconsciousnyc.org,2009:/ugz//1.11 2009-06-25T23:37:54Z 2009-07-20T20:42:24Z Paul
Jack Ferver presents two works about desire, longing, and humiliation in this evening combining two of his most hilarious and erotic works. 

I Am Trying To Hear Myself concerns the elusive quality of romance and the disappointment of viewing one's current life through the idealization of one's past.

Ferver will also show an excerpt of the new piece he is working on, Vandam Goodbar, about the humorous, disturbing, and unfortunate violent excursions that can happen in the restless search for a connection. ]]> 3! tag:www.collectiveunconsciousnyc.org,2009:/ugz//1.10 2009-06-25T23:22:07Z 2009-06-30T03:10:19Z 3! is a multimedia experiment inspired by Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1979 film The Third Generation. Radical politics, carnival, cops, philosophy, television, guns and terrorists... The performance features criss-crossing cameras, televisions, live feed video, a dj and an ensemble cast of... Paul Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1979 film The Third Generation. Radical politics, carnival, cops, philosophy, television, guns and terrorists... The performance features criss-crossing cameras, televisions, live feed video, a dj and an ensemble cast of 14 actors. Hybrid forms of performance collide and subvert reality in an attempt to interrogate violence, freedom and civil rights, dramatizing a disturbing world of sexual mayhem, chemical distortions, political manipulations and the exaltation and burden of discovering one's inability to fit into the system.

]]> She of the Voice tag:www.collectiveunconsciousnyc.org,2009:/ugz//1.9 2009-06-25T03:15:19Z 2009-06-29T20:47:32Z She of the Voice, Eliza Bent's adaptation of Hari Kunzru's short story "Magda Mandela," simmers with video, dance, soundscape + song. A Greek chorus of urbanites dwell alongside the larger-than-life Magda whose constant preaching and outrageous, vigilante antics provide a... Paul AOI! tag:www.collectiveunconsciousnyc.org,2009:/ugz//1.8 2009-06-25T03:06:08Z 2009-06-30T16:00:56Z A new adaptation of Yukio Mishima's modern Noh play, "The Lady Aoi", TSW distills the 1950's shingeki naturalism of the original text with their own brand of nouveau expressionism to expose the extremely conflicted nature of Mishima's psyche.... Paul A new adaptation of Yukio Mishima's modern Noh play, "The Lady Aoi", TSW distills the 1950's shingeki naturalism of the original text with their own brand of nouveau expressionism to expose the extremely conflicted nature of Mishima's psyche. Nick tag:www.collectiveunconsciousnyc.org,2009:/ugz//1.7 2009-06-25T02:47:05Z 2009-07-08T14:16:05Z Paul A contemporary adaptation of Chekhov's Ivanov from the original Russian.  Nick Ivanov, a man of infinite promise and debt, is torn between his loving wife and the lusty daughter of his creditor. When his vodka swilling, poker playing, gun toting friends insert themselves into the intrigue, Nick gets pushed to the edge. Fiercely comic, electrifying and blatantly romantic, this is Chekhov as you never imagined. ]]> The Jamal Lullabies tag:www.collectiveunconsciousnyc.org,2009:/ugz//1.6 2009-06-25T02:35:52Z 2009-06-29T19:34:53Z The Jamal Lullabies is a musical tribute and lament written and scored by Emily Conbere and directed by Paul Bargetto. In the piece four young, white women sing about Jamal, a "beloved gang member, a soft spoken lover, and a... Paul Pretençión: un cirque de burlesque, un burlesque de cirque tag:www.collectiveunconsciousnyc.org,2009:/ugz//1.3 2009-06-23T16:29:11Z 2009-06-29T17:34:23Z Porkpie Pretençión is the place where Mystery sits at a table with Elegance, and Imagination orders a round of drinks before dinner. It is a world where those drinks are served by a pompous clown. Join Pinchbottom on a sensual quest for Pretençión, an imaginary yet sexy element that turns burlesque performers from "Jerkques" (ordinary people) into self-important "Cirques": infuriatingly magical, unendurably spellbinding artistes who peel away the mundane with every layer of clothing. Step into the world of Pretençión -- but be careful not to trip on the magic.]]>