| Theaterlab presents its 2021 season featuring MINIFEST and THIS WOULD LOOK GOOD ON YOU | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 12:23 pm EDT 08/30/21 | |
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| THEATERLAB presents its 2021 season featuring MINIFEST September 18 - 19 and THIS WOULD LOOK GOOD ON YOU September 23 - October 3 Theaterlab (Orietta Crispino, Artistic Director) is proud to officially open its space to the in-situ presentations of its 2021 season, focused on fashion and the body. It will start with a two-day MINIFEST - the second edition of a micro-festival, celebrating artists and business of the venue's home location, the Garment District (September 18-19). The second offering of the season is a one-woman show THIS WOULD LOOK GOOD ON YOU, written and performed by Orietta Crispino and directed by Liza Cassidy (September 23-October 3.) Both pieces will be presented at Theaterlab (357 W 36th St, 3rd floor, NYC, 10018.) For tickets and performance schedules, visit http://www.theaterlabnyc.com/ . MINIFEST was first launched in March of 2020, bringing to its audiences an afternoon of short sparks of new work and other tiny delights. Returning for two days in 2021, this year's fest focuses on "Fashion and the Body" in honor of Theaterlab's Garment District home. Audiences will peer closely at works made in miniature, including glimpses of new performance, film, and audio installations, along with snacks and socializing while exploring Theaterlab's signature white box spaces. Artists include Marco Casazza, Liza Cassidy, Orietta Crispino, Liz Goldberg, Naoki Iwakawa, Michaela Lind, Stefanie Nelson, Lisa Silvestri, Alex Sollitto, Lesley Ware, Louisa Willis, Glenna Yu, and Lanie Zipoy. Performance times: Saturday, September 18 at 5:00 pm and Sunday, September 19 at 3:00 and 5:00 pm. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/1077220 . THIS WOULD LOOK GOOD ON YOU is the second show in a trilogy of semi-autobiographical monodramas written and performed by Orietta Crispino. In this new 50-minute performance, the artist delves into memories and artifacts connected to the contents of her impressive wardrobe, exploring how women are influenced and shaped by the things they wear. Weaving together stories of generosity and loss, operatic grandeur and comic reflections, Orietta takes her audience on an intimate journey through styles, colors, memories and theatrical references that add another glimpse of her Italian upbringing, first explored in the 2017 piece Let Me Cook For You. Liza Cassidy directs. Performances run from September 23 thru October 3; Thursday thru Saturday at 7:00 pm and Sunday at 5:00 pm. Tickets ($25) can be purchased at https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/1077219 . "Creating space to artfully gather has been at the core of Theaterlab's mission since its beginning," says Orietta Crispino, the Artistic Director. "This season, after a year of many losses, fear, and isolation, that space has become even more meaningful. I wanted to welcome back live audiences to playfully re-enter the public space by looking at how we dress for it! It's a fun, joyful way to celebrate the craft that goes into Fashion and the creation of our public selves. The Garment District has been our home for the last 8 years. Our season it's an invitation to gently look at our fragile and marvelous bodies with a refreshed eye, weaving the stories of the many identities we play through our clothes," she further explains. Theaterlab is strictly following the federal and local COVID-19 protocols to ensure the safety and comfort of its audiences and performers. To be admitted to a performance, visitors must show proof of vaccination - no exceptions. Masks are required for all audience members. However, performers will not be masked. Check the website for the most current information on pandemic-related restrictions. ABOUT THE ARTISTS Orietta Crispino (Writer and Performer, THIS WOULD LOOK GOOD ON YOU) is the Artistic Director of Theaterlab. Born in Italy, she graduated from the prestigious Piccolo Teatro School in Milan, where she worked with the major Italian directors Giorgio Strehler and Massimo Castri. She later taught acting and directing there. Among her many theatre projects are: Passport No. 23.922, a piece she wrote and directed on the life of Tina Modotti; and a three year-project in Trieste directing the plays of Pirandello's Italian contemporaries. She is a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab. Ms. Crispino's acting credits include The Library (Crossing the Line Festival, FIAF); In the House of My Beloved (WP Theater);The Living Room Series (HERE); Dancing, not Dead (The Internationalists); Dante's Inferno (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum), and Snow in the Living Room (Theaterlab). Her most recent productions at Theaterlab are Three Sisters Come and Go; Snow in the Living Room, a retelling of the Brothers Grimms' Snow White; and Let Me Cook For You, a collage of inherited myths and apocryphal histories, melding the intoxicating act of storytelling with the ritual of preparing food. In addition to her theatre work, Ms. Crispino has done art projects on the body in its performative aspect. Her body research culminated in a performance piece with the photographer Vibeke Jensen, Camera Obscura, shown at PS1 in New York, Bogota and Trieste. Liza Cassidy (Director, THIS WOULD LOOK GOOD ON YOU) has been collaborating and performing with Theaterlab since 2005. Most recently she assistant directed LET ME COOK FOR YOU both at Theaterlab and for the site-specific co-production with Pop-up Theatrics in Brooklyn. She performed and choreographed for Orietta Crispino's two- and three-women shows Snow in the Living Room, and Three Sisters Come and Go, for Gia Forakis & Company's Love In Space-time during residency at Next Stage in VT, and for the Living Theater and Spoke The Hub Dancing productions. Her film work includes acting for directors Shannon Plumb and Bastein Solignac. As a visual artist, she participated in Theaterlab's Hotel New Work in 2016, and shows in NYC and Vermont. Theaterlab has served as a hub for experimental performing arts in our Midtown home since 2013 and has been creating programming for New York's innovative artists since 2007. Our signature white box studios offer a clean and well-kept creative canvas for new work that subverts expectations and defies categorization. Theaterlab produces a number of new work programs, focused on cross-disciplinary experimentation, including Hotel New Work, a short-term residency for ensemble-driven works; [im]permanence , connecting our theater to our street through live action painting; Mothers, Myths, Monsters, presenting short works-in-progress; Voices Inside, a writing and theater program for incarcerated writers; Round the Block!, bringing together performance venues and business throughout the Garment District; and Celebrate the Artist, introducing New York audiences to international artists. Theaterlab's mission is to serve the Garment District's diverse population of artists and audiences by producing energetic and experimental art that interrogates the nature of live performance. https://www.theaterlabnyc.com/ Instagram: @theaterlab Twitter: @tlabnyc |
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