| What's On at The Wild Project | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 08:33 am EST 01/23/18 | |
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| What's on at the wild project On Now: Now - February 10 JERICHO by Michael Weller, directed by Laura Braza With Ginna Doyle, Vasile Flutur, Noelle Franco, Jerzy Gwiazdowski, Erinn Holmes, Jamal James, Stephanie Pope, Hannah Sloat, and Jack Sochet Produced by The Attic Theater Company Schedule: Tuesday - Saturday at 7 pm; Sunday at 5 pm (Added matinee performance on 2/10 at 2 pm) Tickets: $26 Based on the play LILIOM by Hungarian master Ferenc Molnár (which inspired Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel), JERICHO by award-winning screenwriter and playwright Michael Weller, revolves around the love affair between a scoundrel carousel barker and a maid at a Catholic Young Women’s Inn. His confused violent passion and her simple unshakable devotion, form the combustible heart of this dark fairytale for grown-ups. Staying true to Molnár’s marginal Budapest, Weller sets JERICHO at Coney Island during the Great Depression of the 1930s; a place and time when work was scarce, and life was a matter of desperate survival. Coming Soon: February 12 – February 18 POETIC LICENSE: RECLAMATION Featuring Leslie Lissaint’s This is How We Heal and Jason Bayani’s Locus of Control with artist oriented annual events Breaking Our Silence: Reclaiming Our Voices; Love Redefined: RECLAIM; Veteran Voices: A Reclamation; Poetic Lyricism; and Generation Now Produced by Poetic License Productions Tickets: $18 Poetic Theater Productions is proud to announce the 7th Annual Poetic License festival of new poetic theater with the 2018 theme of “Reclamation.” POETIC LICENSE: RECLAMATION is headlined with Leslie Lissaint’s This is How We Heal and Jason Bayani’s Locus of Control and features our artist oriented annual events Breaking Our Silence: Reclaiming Our Voices; Love Redefined: RECLAIM; Veteran Voices: A Reclamation; Poetic Lyricism; and Generation Now. This year’s festival will also feature art in the Wild Project lobby gallery by NYC city students, educators, activists and artists celebrating art and action connected to reclaiming rights and inspired by the 13 principles of the Black Lives Matter movement. Monday, February 12 at 6 PM The 2018 Poetic License Festival Opening Party The opening reception of Reclamation: A Celebration of Art and Action featuring art and poetry inspired by Black Lives Matter’s 13 Principles and created by NYC students, educators, activists and artists, and celebrates art and action connected with the reclamation of rights. Monday, February 12 at 7 PM Opening Party Performances Performances for for the opening party begin in the theater and include performances from festival artists and a concert by The Mighty Third Rail. The award-winning Mighty Third Rail is made up of poet Darian Dauchan (BROADWAY: Twentieth Century), violinist Curtis Stewart (National Repertory Orchestra), and bassist Ian Baggette (performer at the FIFA World Cup). Tuesday, February 13 at 8 PM Breaking Our Silence: Reclaiming Our Voices Celebrating six years of Breaking Our Silence programming, the showcase was launched in the 2013 Poetic License Festival by Joanna Hoffman, Elliot D. Smith, Charan P. Morris and Storm Thomas and has since highlighted the work of 23 all-star queer poets and musicians, sharing their experiences of coming out, finding love, breaking the silence and speaking out. The 2018 showcase theme of "Reclaiming Our Voices" is a celebration of both the shared experiences and the complexities and uniqueness of each individual within the large LGBTQ community. Featured artists in the 2018 showcase will include Joanna Hoffman, Charan P. Morris, Sam LaRoche, Sarah Duncan, David Davila, Ian F. Stewart, and more artists TBA. Wednesday, February 14 at 8 PM Love, Redefined: RECLAIM Poetic Theater Productions’ 8th annual celebration of non-commercial, non-traditional love featuring poetic and theatrical remixes, re-imaginings and riffs by more than ten incredible poets and playwrights responding to traditional sonnets, love poems, and social justice speeches of the past. Inspiration poems and newly developed pieces are presented side-by-side. This year’s theme of Love, Redefined: RECLAIM explores the use of art in the act of reclaiming our land, our bodies, our voices, our spirits, our love and our joy. Thursday, February 15 at 7 PM Locus Of Control Written and Performed by Jason Bayani, Directed by Kat Evasco Co-Presented with Eccentric Productions Directed by award-winning performing artist, Kat Evasco, Locus of Control explores the lives of Filipino immigrants in America, taking you through Jason Bayani’s hip-hop inspired youth, club-going college days, and turbulent adulthood. Locus of Control navigates his experience dealing with race, mental health, addiction, and his status as the first American-born child in his family. Utilizing poetry, storytelling, music, and multimedia, Bayani pieces together the different threads of his life while struggling to make sense of Walter Benjamin’s notion of redeeming the past in present time. Friday, February 16 at 7 PM Veteran Voices: A Reclamation curated by Jenny Pacanowski, Everett Cox, J.A. Moad II and Jeremy Karafin Poetic Theater Productions veteran focused programming continues in this year’s festival with the showcase Veteran Voices: A Reclamation featuring poetry, readings, theater, and music by more than 14 veterans and family members creating art together and a post show discussion about the ways New York can further support existing and new veteran voice programming. The event will mark the merging of Poetic Theater Productions’ annual Kicking Down Doors program curated by Jenny Pacanowski and Everett Cox (launched in the 2016 Poetic License Festival) and the Veteran Voices program initiated this Fall (in collaboration with Consequence Magazine, Warrior Writers, War Literature & The Arts, and the Veteran Artist Program) presented with the 3-week run of J.A. Moad II’s production of Outside Paducah: The Wars At Home. Friday, February 16 at 9 PM Poetic Lyricism Artists from Poetic Theater Productions and The Musical Theatre Factory communities team up to present an evening of new collaborative poetic musical theatre featuring new work by artists from both organizations communities. The Musical Theatre Factory is revolutionizing the way new musicals are developed in New York City. With a focus on peer evaluation and collaborative feedback, their Assembly Line of development programs is designed to nurture new work from an initial idea to a first full draft, and even a first production. Saturday, February 17th & Sunday, February 18th at 7PM This is How We Heal written and performed by Leslie Lissaint, directed by Katherine George Leslie Lissaint's autobiographical one-woman show set to live music and dance is a telling of her process to mend in light of fatherlessness, drug addiction, mass incarceration and the loneliness that silence births. The show embraces spoken word poetry, contemporary movement and live music as a vehicle for storytelling. This Is How We Heal demonstrates the power of the body to tell the truth in order to fully embody freedom. Sunday, February 18 at 3 PM Generation Now! Poetic Theater Productions’ 6th annual youth poetic theater showcase features artists from New York, Urban Word NYC, Girl Be Heard, viBe Theater Experience, EarSay Youth Voices, and more. February 22 - March 13 SPACEMEAN written by Leegrid Stevens, directed by Jacob Titus With Erin Treadway Roger Casey, Shawn Davis, and Erin Treadway Produced by Loading Dock Theatre in association with Wild Project Schedule: Tuesday - Friday at 7:30 pm; Saturday at 2 pm & 7:30 pm; Sunday at 4 pm Ticket: $25; $15 for students/seniors SPACEMAN follows astronaut Molly Jennis on her attempt to be the first human to reach Mars. Beginning seven months into an eight-month journey to the red planet, she is the lone crew member of the space module Aeneas. With a mission to establish a new colony, the difficulties of interplanetary space travel are brought to life in exacting detail. Radiation exposure, long term weightlessness, low light, extensive communication delays and poor hygiene are just a few of the challenges Molly Jennis must face on her quest to be the first to Mars, but she soon finds nothing compares to the psychological effects of having so much time alone. All performances are at the wild project (195 E. 3rd Street, between Avenues A & B). Tickets can be purchased online at http://www.thewildproject.com. The Box Office opens one hour prior to curtain. The wild project is a theater, film, music, and visual arts venue that presents diverse, engaging, inspiring, and entertaining works to the vibrant and growing community of Alphabet City in New York’s East Village, while bringing together the artists and the environment in a unique way. Founded in 2007, the wild project is an innovator among arts venues, providing an eco-friendly theater and gallery where the artists and space nurture each other. The company is dedicated to creating an environment that supports the artists, and to cultivating artists that support the environment. With an eco-conscious approach to presenting the dynamic works of hundreds of emerging artists each year, the wild project offers an artistic and environmental education for patrons of all ages, interests, and incomes in its community. |
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