Showing posts with label Hearts Like Fists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hearts Like Fists. Show all posts
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Judson's Next Bailout Theater - Living Wage

Friday, October 1, 2010 0 comments

Our friends at Judson Memorial Church, hosts of our last Food:Soul Hearts Like Fists, have another Bailout Theater planned, and some Fluxers are contributing plays. Judson is partnering with Living Wage NYC to stage short plays inspired by their work.

Myself and Erin Browne (playwright of our upcoming production of Menders) are among those contributing scripts, and I reckon there may be a few more Flux folk involved before all is said and done. Given my recent post about widening theatre's frame, this seemed a great way to wrestle with some hard issues in a playful way.

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Hearts Like Fists Photos And Thoughts

Thursday, September 16, 2010 3 comments

(Photo: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: Tiffany Clementi, August Schulenburg, Christins Shipp, Cotton Wright)

Thanks to everyone (around 100!) who came out for our sixth Food:Soul, Adam Szymkowicz's Hearts Like Fists. This was a special Food:Soul for us, as our first Food:Soul was Adam's Pretty Theft. It was also our second partnering with Judson Memorial Church's Bailout Theater series, a relationship we're hoping to deepen.

(*Remiss in our first posting was including a thank you to the businesses that provided food, including John's Pizzeria of Bleecker Street, NoHo Deli and Juice Bar, and Norwich Meadows Farms, provider of the Judson Church Community Supported Agriculture program.)

It was also our first event after our 5th Annual Retreat, and so was the first chance to test out our newly articulated Core/Aesthetic Values and Mission in action. Part of that mission is to treat our audience as partners in our process, so if you were there, PLEASE share with us your thoughts in the comments section below. What were you favorite parts in the play? What worked at the event, and what could we do better?

To inspire you, here are some beautiful shots of the reading, all courtesy of Isaiah Tanenbaum.
(Christina Shipp as Lisa and Jason Paradine as Peter)
(Amy Staats as Nurse and Tiffany Clementi as Jazmine)
(Christina Shipp as Lisa, Cotton Wright as Sally)
(Jill Knox as Nina, August Schulenburg as Dr X)
(Christina Shipp as Lisa)
(August Schulenburg as Dr X)
(Cotton Wright as Sally)
(Christina Shipp as Lisa)
(Amy Staats as Nurse, August Schulenburg as Dr X)
(August Schulenburg as Carson, Jason Paradine as Ed)
(Jill Knox as Nina)
(David Crommett as the Commissioner)
(Tiffany Clementi as Jazmine, Cotton Wright as Sally, Jill Knox as Nina)

A happy cast...

..and a happy audience!

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Food:Soul #6 - Hearts Like Fists

Wednesday, September 8, 2010 0 comments

(Photo by: Jason Paradine. Pictured: audience for Flux's 5th Food:Soul)

We're back from the retreat with a treat for you: Adam Szymkowicz's crimefighting comedy, Hearts Like Fists. You've heard about this play before, and after an uproarious read at our retreat (more on that anon), we're sharing it with you.

Hearts Like Fists
Written by Adam Szymkowicz
Directed by Keith Powell
As part of Flux's potluck play series, Food:Soul
And Judson Memorial Church's Bailout Theater
Wednesday, September 15th
At Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South
Doors open and food is served at 7:30, staged reading begins at 8PM
Cast: Tiffany Clementi, David Crommett, Jill Knox, Jason Paradine, August Schulenburg, Christina Shipp, Amy Staats, Cotton Wright
Assistant Director: Casey Schmal

Hearts Like Fists is a superhero noir comedy about the dangers of love. Dr X is sneaking into people's apartments late at night and injecting lovers with a serum that stops their hearts. Lisa joins the Crimefighters, a group of crimefighting women, to stop him. Peter, a heart doctor, is trying to create an artificial heart that can be mass produced so no one will fear to sleep with their lovers again.

Adam's play Pretty Theft was our very first Food:Soul, and that experience was so good we ended up producing it. We're thrilled to be returning to his work. You may know Keith Powell as an actor, but he's an excellent director (and playwright!) as well; my play Good Hope would not exist without him, and Kidding Jane would be in sorry shape. I'm grateful he's finally collaborating with Flux!

Want to RSVP? Let us know you're coming on Facebook.
Want to bring some food? Food donations are welcome but NOT required.

Adam Szymkowicz’s play Pretty Theft was produced by Flux Theater Ensemble in 2009. It was subsequently published by Samuel French. He has three other plays published by DPS. Szymkowicz studied playwriting at Columbia and Juilliard. He is a two-time Lecomte du Nouy Prize winner, a member of the Dramatists Guild, Writer’s Guild of America, Primary Stages’ Dorothy Strelsin New American Writer’s Group, the MCC Playwright’s Coalition and was a founding member of the Ars Nova Play Group. He will be in residence at the William Inge House this fall and was commissioned by South Coast Rep. For more, see www.adamszymkowicz.com.

Keith Powell is an actor, director, and writer living in Brooklyn. He holds a degree from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where he performed in this very space.
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