Dates: Sunday, May 14, & Sunday, July 9
at 4:00PM
LIVE at Ancram Opera House
1330 County Route 7, Ancram NY 12502
Ancram Center presents its 4th edition of Summer Play Lab! Each year, the play lab residency offers artists of all practices a space to develop and present a work-in-progress showing as part of AOH’s summer season.
This summer, Ancram Center invites David Cale, Dael Orlandersmith, and Matthew Dean Marsh, joined by director Robert Falls, to present their current project, You Don't Know the Lonely One.
Ancram Center is also proud to present Bullet, written and performed by Seth McNeill, directed by Padraic Lillis; and Cancer Cabaret, written by Maryann De Leo, Christine Koenig, and Emily Rubin, in collaboration with composer/singer Michael Inge.
The Summer Play Lab project was designed to support theatre artists in cultivating innovative theatre to be presented in the future at AOH or elsewhere. Selected artists spend a two-month residency with AOH to bring their emerging pieces closer towards a fully realized production. Throughout the residency, AOH makes efforts to connect the artist with the community in meaningful ways. This year’s community events include a combination of interactive workshops, open rehearsals, and Q&A panels.
YOU DON’T KNOW THE LONELY ONE
Showing: Sunday, May 14th at 4:00pm
This non-narrative, multidisciplinary work draws influence from paintings and albums to create a collaborative portrait of aloneness in an ever-shifting world. You Don't Know the Lonely One uses monologues, poems, stories and songs to explore what it means to be alone.
Click here for more about You Don’t Know the Lonely One.
BULLET
Showing: Sunday, July 9th at 4:00pm
In today's TED talk ... sorry, this is not a TED talk, though it might be for someone named Ted, so maybe it's Ted's Talk. But hopefully it will be for other people too. It's a talk that will hopefully mean something as it goes along. What do you say when you're not sure you have much to say? Who are you if you don't have much to offer?
A solo show in progress by a playwright <hopefully a person> in process.
Click here for more about Bullet.
CANCER CABARET
Showing: Sunday, July 9th at 4:00pm
Cancer Cabaret is a spoken word/musical theater work based on the breast cancer journals of writer/filmmaker Maryann De Leo, social work/activist/singer Christine Koenig, and author/writing instructor Emily Rubin. In heightened theatrics and song, three personal encounters with cancer from diagnosis to recovery are revealed. Fear, shock, and gallows humor are performed in collaboration with composer/singer Michael Inge. Cancer Cabaret demystifies the stigma and silences around the disease by exposing fissures of vulnerability, glimmers of hope, heightened body awareness, and ecstatic triumphs of healing when life and reality have been derailed by cancer.
Click here for more about Cancer Caberet.