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The Flea presents CUTTHROAT SERIES: GRAND GUIGNOL DUELS Sept 23 - Oct 5

Posted by:	Official_Press_Release 05:28 pm EDT 09/09/14

The Flea Theater Announces THE CUTTHROAT SERIES: GRAND GUIGNOL DUELS - GORE September 23-October 5 The Flea Theater unveils the most terrifying 4 part theatrical event of the fall - THE CUTTHROAT SERIES: GRAND GUIGNOL DUELS beginning September 23. These turn of the century French plays alternate between ghastly horrors and carnal comedies to create a gripping, deplorable evening of theater. To add to that thrill, audience members will vote on their favorite play from each of the four pods (subtitled Gore, Cruelty, Night Terror, and Lust) and the winners will return for an extended run in January. The first of four pods, THE CUTTHROAT SERIES: GRAND GUIGNOL DUELS - GORE, will include three one-acts, directed by Flea Resident Directors and featuring The Bats. All shows will be designed by Andrew Diaz (Set Design), Rachel Fae Szymanski (Lighting Design), and Joseph Wolfslau (Sound Design). MADHOUSE By Andre de Lord & Alfred Binet. Adapted by Corbin Went. Directed by Ria T. DiLullo with Costume Design by Travis Boatwright and Fight Direction by Alex Gould. Featuring William Barnet, Emilie Bienne, Lillith Fallon, Kristin Friedlander, Glenna Grant, Ashton Muniz, Leslie Erin Roth, and Yoanna Wei. Louise is about to be released from the insane asylum. All she has to endure is one more night. We will find out, is she crazy or sane? TICS, OR DOING THE DEED By René Berton. Directed by Stebos with Costume Design by Becky Willett and Movement Direction by Matt Bovee. Featuring William Barnet, Sean Devare, Katarina Feder, Shane Hall, Olivia Jampol, Artem Kreimer, and Alexander Kushi-Willis. This ménage à trois comedy brings three couples together for a dinner party in the country. A wet appetite needs a good fork. THE FINAL KISS By Maurice Level. Directed by Chongren Fan with Costume Design by Emma Lipshutz and Fight Direction by Alex Gould. Featuring Alec Gaylord, Shane Hall, Olivia Jampol, and Sonja O’Hara. Henri has been horribly disfigured by his ex-fiancée Jeanne in a brutal acid attack. She visits him to ask for his forgiveness but all he wants is one final kiss. Ria T. DiLullo, a New York native, is the co-founder and co-artistic director of Marrow’s Edge, a performance group dedicated to new work that is both of the core and at the precipice. She is currently co-producing their Salon Series, where they make space for new plays to be exposed to a supportive audience in a comfortable setting, for free. Other directorial projects include We Are Samurai by Daria Marinelli, Caged by Brandon Ferraro, Tinerete by Ioana Jucan, 1001 by Jason Grote, and movement director for Deaths of Pan, by Ioana Jucan. Ria's training includes: holistic biomechanics with Lara London in Providence, Rhode Island, Noh and Kyogen performance at Theatre of Yugen in San Francisco, Movement Theatre Studio workshops and weekly Alexander Technique classes. Ria is excited for her directorial debut at The Flea with the Cutthroat Series. Let the battles begin! Stebos is a Resident Director at The Flea Theater. A NYC-based stage director, producer, teaching artist, and theater scholar, he specialized in acting and directing with Jurij Alschitz at the Russian Academy of Dramatic Art (former GITIS) in Moscow. He is the founder and artistic director of Theatreplots Productions and teaches in the Theatre Department at Hunter College. www.stebos.net Chongren Fan is a New York based stage director. He’s currently a Resident Director at the Flea Theater. He has developed work with La Mama, New Ohio Theatre, Dixon Place, Prototype Festival, Manhattan Repertory Theater, Thespis Theater Festival, American Dance Institute (D.C.) and Mecoon Theatre (Shanghai, China). His directing credits include: Rent and Spring Awakening (@Musical, Shanghai); Cloud Nine and Did You See It?/Eight Ways In(Sarah Lawrence College) among many readings/workshops in New York. As assistant director, Chongren is working with director Eric Ting on The World Of Extreme Happiness by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig (Goodman Theatre, September 2014; Manhattan Theatre Club, February 2015). He was the Artistic Director of a Shanghai-based musical theater company All That Musical (@Musical) from 2008-2011. M.F.A. in Theater, Sarah Lawrence College. Performances of THE CUTTHROAT SERIES: GRAND GUIGNOL DUELS - GORE will be September 23-October 5 (9PM on Sept 23-24, Oct 1-4; 7PM on Sept 29, Oct 5; 5PM on Sept 27, Oct 4). Tickets are $15 - $35 with the lowest priced tickets available on a first-come, first-served basis. The Bats are the resident acting company members of The Flea Theater. Each year over a thousand actors audition for a place in this unique company. The Bats perform in extended runs of challenging classic and new plays. The Bats have recently appeared in premieres by A.R. Gurney, Will Eno, Adam Rapp, Beau Willimon, Mac Wellman, Elizabeth Swados, Thomas Bradshaw, Itamar Moses, Sheila Callaghan, Julian Sheppard, Ken Urban, Tommy Smith, Jonathan Reynolds, Trista Baldwin, Laurel Haines, Qui Nguyen, Sean Graney, and Amy Freed. The Flea Resident Director Program is an intensive program that invites young directors to work in support of The Flea’s season under the supervision of Artistic Director Jim Simpson. Residents direct readings and workshops with The Bats throughout the season with the goal of a full production. Resident director productions include My Daughter Keeps Our Hammer, Mary-Kate Olsen is in Love, The Recommendation, a cautionary tail, White Hot, I Hate Mexicans, Job, The Wundelsteipen, The Electric Lighthouse, American Sexy, and Just Cause. The Flea Theater, under Artistic Director Jim Simpson and Producing Director Carol Ostrow, is one of New York's leading off-off-Broadway companies. Winner of a Special Drama Desk Award for outstanding achievement, Obie Awards and an Otto for political theater, The Flea has presented over 100 plays and numerous dance and live music performances since its inception in 1996. Past productions include the premieres by Steven Banks, Thomas Bradshaw, Bathsheba Doran, Will Eno, Karen Finley, Amy Freed, Sean Graney, A.R. Gurney, Hamish Linklater, Enrique Gutiérrez Ortiz Monasterio, Itamar Moses, Anne Nelson, Qui Nguyen, Adam Rapp, Jonathan Reynolds, Roger Rosenblatt, Elizabeth Swados, and Mac Wellman. Recent successes include Drama Desk nominated She Kills Monsters, These Seven Sicknesses and Restoration Comedy, The Mysteries and eight World Premieres by A.R. Gurney including the WSJ Best New Play of 2013, Family Furniture. THE CUTTHROAT SERIES: GRAND GUIGNOL DUELS - GORE runs September 23-October 5. The Flea Theater is located at 41 White Street between Church and Broadway, three blocks south of Canal, close to the A/C/E, N/R/Q, 6, J/Z and 1 subway lines. Tickets $15 - $35 with lowest priced tickets available on a first-come, first-served basis. They can be purchased by calling 212-352-3101 or online at www.theflea.org.

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