Prelude '07

FALL 2007 progRams

Prelude '07

Martin E. Segal Theatre Center & The Graduate Center, CUNY
with The Lucille Lortel Foundation and the Japan Foundation present

Prelude 2007 Poster

PRELUDE ’07: At the Forefront of Contemporary NYC Theatre,is a mini-festival and symposium celebrating and discussing the very best of new and unconventional theatre being created by NYC-based theatre artists and companies. The weekend will feature 19 short performances, readings, and open rehearsals with a focus on works-in-progress for the upcoming 2007-08 season and beyond. PRELUDE ’07 gives audiences the rare chance to see the work of NYC’s most distinctive contemporary theatre under one roof. Experience the in-progress work of the city’s most exciting, unconventional theatre – with all performances followed by talkbacks with artists.

This year PRELUDE '07 will feature the SPOTLIGHT JAPAN PROGRAM. A short panel discussion launches an exciting evening of Japanese-American collaboration.
Program 1: Mikuni Yanaihara's play The Blue Bird, directed by Daniel Safer/Witness Relocation. Includes dance breaks and other entertainments.
Program 2: Toshiki Okada’s Enjoy, directed by The Play Company, uses innovative storytelling to account the romantic adventures of young workers.
Program 3: Masataka Matsuda’s Auto-da-fe, directed by Josh Fox/International WOW, is a modern-day Odysseus from exile to home.

All presentations take place at:
The Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue (at 34 Street), NYC
Martin E. Segal Theatre, 60 seats
Elebash Recital Hall, 180 seats

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED.
NO RESERVATIONS REQUIRED.
NO LATE SEATING.

Program subject to change. For info write to mestc@gc.cuny.edu
PR: Laura Kaplow-Goldman


PRELUDE '07 SCHEDULE

Wednesday, September 26

	KICK-OFF PANEL DISCUSSION: UPTOWN / DOWNTOWN A discussion on the process of bringing challenging new work to broader audiences and the effects this process has on artists and institutions. Panelists include: Sarah Benson, Adam Bock, Jim Nicola, and Alex Timbers. Moderator: David Cote. 6:30 p.m. Segal Theatre	ANDREW SCHNEIDER Retrograde02, a palindromic exploration of regret that challenges the perception of linear time. Followed by a reception. Reception to follow

Thursday,September 27

PANEL: PLAYWRIGHT VS. TEXT An examination of the role of the playwright in contemporary theater, particularly in relation to alternative methods of developing text. Panelists: Madeleine George, Richard Nelson, Eric Dyer, Mac Wellman. Moderated: Brook Stowe. 4 p.m. Segal Theatre	KRISTEN KOSMAS Hello Failure, a story of waiting, featuring a sad Civil War ghost, a lonely flamboyant hairdresser, a poignant potted plant, and 7 women in various stages of deployment. 4 p.m. Elebash Recital Hall	RANBIR SIDHU True East: A young Indian-American woman accepts a journalist's offer of a trip to India and finds herself in a hotel room confronting lies she has lived with for years. 6 p.m. Segal Theatre	AYA OGAWA / KNIFE, INC. Artifact: a multi-media play that explores how advances in technology and communication have affected our modes of (dis)connection and identification. 6 p.m. Elebash Recital Hall
	31 DOWN 31 Down's I Used To Be Curious [Loud] voyeuristically folds the politics of subtitles, answering machines and food. 8 p.m. Segal Theatre	KAMERON STEELE / SOUTH WING A workshop staging of Aoi!, an exploration of a bizarre love triangle touched by supernatural jealousy. 8 p.m. Elebash Recital Hall

Friday, September 28

CHRISTINA CAMPANELLA / STEPHANIE FLEISCHMANN Red Fly/Blue Bottle: A preview of the multimedia song cycle by Christina Campanella and Stephanie Fleischmann, directed by Mallory Catlett, in which an elderly entomologist investigates the fallout of a bygone war. 2 p.m. Segal Theatre	ANNIE-B PARSON / BIG DANCE THEATER A video/talk on the subject of the practice of choreography, mostly mid-century, and various other things that are semi-related. 2 p.m. Elebash Recital Hall	PANEL: DOWNTOWN AND RACE A look at how downtown theatre and experimental performance wrestle with issues of race & representation. Panelists: Thomas Bradshaw, James Scruggs, David Henry Hwang, Melanie Joseph. 4 p.m. Segal Theatre	MARK SCHULTZ Gingerbread House: Brian and Stacey want a better life—the life they deserve. They are willing to sell their children to get it. 6 p.m. Elebash Recital Hall
LUCIDITY SUITCASE INTERCONTINENTAL/ THADDEUS PHILLIPS The Americas Trilogy: a presentation/performance of the concept, design, and connections between three works in the epic tryptich: El Conquistador! (2006), Flamingo/Winnebago (2007), and Melting Bridge (2008). 6 p.m. Segal Theatre	RACHEL SHUKERT / THE BUSHWICK HOTEL The Worshipped: Or Wreck of the Dictators: a dark comedy about the doomed Romanovs, last tsars of Russia. 6 p.m. Elebash Recital Hall	LABORATORY THEATER Sherri Zahad and Her Arabian Knights and Le Mirage: excerpts/dances from two works in progress, directed by Yvan Greenberg. 8 p.m. Segal Theatre	LIGHTBOX Milk-n-Honey: LightBox’s new multimedia project about the pleasures of eating, based on interviews with farmers, waiters, migrant workers, flavor chemists, ad execs, dumpster divers, grocery clerks, diabetics, activists, and everyday eaters. 8 p.m. Segal Theatre

Saturday, September 29

THE DEBATE SOCIETY The Untitled Auto Play: The Debate Society’s roadtrip past abandoned buildings, crushed cars and places they imagine remembering. 2 p.m. Segal Theatre	SPOTLIGHT JAPAN A special program that pairs three progressive Japanese playwrights with likeminded American directors to present the first English-language presentations of their work. Participants include Mikuni Yanaihara with Dan Safer/Witness Relocation, Okada Toshiki with The Play Company, and Masataka Matsuda with Josh Fox/International WOW. 2 p.m. Elebash Recital Hall	NEW DRAMATURGY/NEW YORK Theatrical machers Morgan Jenness (Abrams Artists), Kristin Marting (HERE) and Norman Frisch (NYU) convene a posse of colleagues to identify and discuss new flashpoints on the local dramaturgical landscape. 4 p.m. Segal Theatre	THE TEAM Architecting: an American saga told in several sections (starting in the middle). It’s Gone with the Wind blown up and rebuilt by messianic architects as "The Re-Education of Scarlett O'Hara." 6 p.m. Elebash Recital Hall
DAVID LEVINE/CiNE A presentation of Bauerntheater: a documentary film of the notorious 2007 project, in which an American method actor (David Barlow) played a German farmer, on German soil, 10 hours a day for a month. 6 p.m. Segal Theatre	ADAM BOCK A reading of On Thursday, a play about going home and what to do when people don't want you anymore. 8 p.m. Segal Theatre	JOHN MORAN A new "dance-music-theatre" work, in which Youth and Death are invited as the only guests at a bizarre and disjointed "birthday party." 8 p.m. Elebash Recital Hall
PRELUDE ‘07 SATURDAY NIGHT PARTY Come celebrate with the artists and creators of Prelude ’07: 10 P.M. SECRET LOCATION TBA.

Throughout PRELUDE ’07

	JULIETA CERVANTES PHOTO EXHIBIT Images from PRELUDE ‘06 www.julietacervantes.com

PRELUDE ’07 ADVISORY COMMITTEE:
Sarah Benson, Michael Casselli, Linda Chapman, David Cote, Norm Frisch, Vallejo Gantner, Daniel Gerould, Maria Goyanes, Jason Grote, Cynthia Hedstrom, Rob Marcato, Kristin Marting, Morgan Pecelli, Gita Reddy Brian Rogers, Mark Russell, Deb Singer, Alexi Soloski, Mac Wellman, Stephen Willems.

CURATORS:
Andy Horwitz, Geoffrey Scott, and Frank Hentschker

Meg Araneo, Associate Producer; Ruth Egslaer, Production Assistant

OFFICIAL PRELUDE ’07 PHOTOGRAPHER:
Julien Jourdes

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