2200 / Student: 1700 Ft / season ticket is valid
Contemporary Drama Festival Budapest presents
2010.11.29. 21:30
Reggie Watts (USA) - Constructs In Living Systems
2010.12.3-4. 20:00
Young Jean Lee’s Theatre Company (USA) - The Shipment
2010.11.27-28. 20:00
Temporary Distortion (USA) - Welcome to Nowhere (bullet hole road)
In English with Hungarian subtitles.
60 min
"Temporary Distortion's deconstructionist take on the modern American road movie, is a captivating, hypnotic, and mesmerizing work of art."
James Comtois, New York Theatre
Welcome to Nowhere is a hybrid of theater and cinema. During the performance, a constant stream of video is projected above the cast. In scenes of prolonged stillness, silence and impassivity, doppelgangers of the characters we meet onstage navigate a hyper-real cinematic landscape as if lost in a dream, fractured memories creating parallel narratives that echo, reflect and refract each moment of the play and paint a haunting picture of the’ road movie paradox’ of being rootless and constantly in transit therefore simultaneously free and trapped. (Free because you've escaped your rooted life, trapped because you're stuck with your thoughts and memories with no release.)
Temporary Distortion has earned a reputation for pushing the boundaries of theater by staging unsettling, meditative performances in claustrophobic, boxlike structures. Featuring minimal physical movement and a uniquely restrained acting style, these four-dimensional theatrical installations bridge the gap between cinema, performance and visual art.
Contemporary Drama Festival Budapest is introducing American work in its 9th edition and partnered New York City’s innovative multi-disciplinary arts center Performance Space 122, a venue known for with ground-breaking, adventurous performance and committed to finding, nurturing and presenting both emerging and established artists who are creating new disciplines, defying conventions, and expanding the parameters of contemporary live performance.
Writer, director: Kenneth Collins
Video Projections: William Cusick
With: Nick BIXBY, Brian GREER, Lorraine MATTOX, Rachel MCKEON
on video: Ben BECKLEY, Stacey COLIINS, Stephanie SILVER, Jessica Grace PAGAN
Costumes: TaraFawn Marek
Music, sound: John Sully
Motion Graphics: Jon Weiss
Assistant Director: Christine Vartoughian
Technical Assistant: Joe Cantalupo, Andrew Scoville
Co-Created by: Kenneth Collins and William Cusick
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This production premiered at The Chocolate Factory, as part of its Visiting Artist Programming.
Welcome to Nowhere/ Reggie Watts Constructs in Living Systems /
The Passion Project is/are presented by Performance Space 122 as part of PS122 Global, a series of collaborative tours designed to create mini-festivals of New York City’s contemporary live performance around the world. For the past thirty years Performance Space 122 has been one of NYC's ultimate destinations for cutting-edge theatre, dance, music, live art and multi-media. Supported in part by the Trust for Mutual Understanding.
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