Running Shows
Tellin’ Tales Theatre
In Your Facebook: Status Updates From the Walls of Dave Awl,
Beth Ann Bryant-Richards, Barrie Cole and Tekki Lomnicki
At Prop Thtr, 3502 North Elston, Chicago
June 26-28, July 10-12 and 17-19 (no shows Fourth of July weekend)
Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 7 p.m.
Sign language interpreted show June 27
TICKETS: $15 for Adults, $10 for Students
Call 312-409-1025
OPENING JUNE 26 AT PROP THTR
Social networking or social disease?
In Your Facebook takes a voyeuristic look at the walls of four Chicago solo performers as they obsessively define their existence by the likes of Facebook. In Facebook 2020, Dave Awl time-travels to the year 2020 to reflect on the pros and cons of Facebook addiction... from inside the belly of the blue-and-white beast.
In Just Another Brick in the Wall, Barrie Cole explores Facebook's alluring promises, fantasies, and language and wonders what ultimately Facebook gives us, and what it takes away...In Redface, Beth Ann Bryant-Richards tackles the challenges of living in a household where moms are facing menopause at the same time teenagers are facing puberty.
And In Love in the Time of Facebook Tekki Lomnicki reveals the pleasures and pitfalls of romance on and off the wall and asks, "Can we ever be 13 again?"
In Your Facebook—2
Dave Awl is the author of the book Facebook Me! from Peachpit Press, published earlier this year. He's also the host of The Partly Dave Show, a cabaret variety show mixing spoken word performances with live music.
He spent the 90s writing and performing with the Neo-Futurists in Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, and founded and curated the Pansy Kings performance series.
A book collection of his monologues and poems, entitled What the Sea Means, was published in 2002.
Barrie Cole is the author of dozens of performance monologues, plays, and short stories which have been produced, performed and published in a multitude of places.
These days she is mostly committed to pleasure but occasionally she worries that she will be defriended on Facebook by someone for some unfathomable reason and that it will never ever make any sense ever.
Beth Ann Bryant-Richards has performed solo work at the Blue Rider Theater, Live Bait’s Fillet of Solo Festival, and Victory Gardens.
She was a featured actor in John Knowles’s film, “Miss Lake Luther,” based on a stage piece by Lotti Pharris and M.K. Victorson.
Tekki Lomnicki is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Tellin’ Tales Theatre (which is finally on Facebook).
Now in its twelfth year, her annual project Six Stories Up pairs six well-known storytellers with six middle school children (with and without disabilities) in a mentoring program and subsequent production.
She taught “All About Me: How to Create the One-Person Show” for the Victory Gardens Training Center for four years and now teaches it through Tellin’ Tales.
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Special Events
Two Afternoons of
Summer Dance
July 25-26
NEWLY IN RESIDENCE AT THE PROP THTR, 3502-04 N. ELSTON
Brain Surgeon Theater's 2009 season naturally kicks off with something all new and all unusual!
Two Afternoons of Summer Dance (July 25-26) unites the choreographic talents of resident Brain Surgeons and some fresh new voices! Five choreographers will create ten new pieces of varying style and mood, united by Ashley Bono's documentary video work of the choreographers in action!
And no summer afternoon would be complete without a Chicago-style barbeque, so join us on the back lot of the Prop Thtr following each show for a professionally-manned-and-womaned grill-a-thon!
THE IMPENDING BEHAVIOR ORCHESTRA performs DREAMLAND STATION, an evening length structured improvisation for 4 musicians, 4 dancers and 1 projection artist. DREAMLAND STATION is a place, a state of mind. DREAMLAND STATION is full of hellos and goodbyes, change, magic, the journey and the baggage we carry on the way.
Comprising IBO for its 5th performance of the season will be:
Barry Bennett (artistic director of IBO); Kristin Reeves (founding member of IBO), Atalee Judy (artistic director for Breakbone), Mindy Meyers (Breakbone, CBDC ), Ryan Schultz (one of the most distinctive purveyors of the bass trumpet you’ll ever find), Kristina Fluty (mad shak), and direct from Brussels - Tracee Westmoreland.
NOTABLE FACTS ABOUT THIS PERFORMANCE:
* this will be Kristin Reeves’ last live Chicago performance for some time. Reeves has accepted an assistance ship at the University of Florida.
* Tracee Westmoreland was a founding member with Bennett in the iconic art-rock band MiLkBabY, releasing 3 albums together and touring the country. Westmoreland moved to Brussels in 2001. Bennett and Westmoreland have not performed publicly since 2003.
* 2+4=8?!!?!? Two IBO performers, Atalee Judy and Tracee Westmoreland, will pull double duty as musicians and movers.
ABOUT THE IMPENDING BEHAVIOR ORCHESTRA (http://myspace.com/theimpendingbehaviororchestra)
The Impending Behavior Orchestra is a modular sound / light/ movement performance group based in Chicago led by musician/composer/sound designer Barry Bennett who founded IBO along with video artist, Kristin Reeves. IBO is modular in the sense that it can manifest itself in many forms and purposes. As few as two or as many as 10 collaborators. IBO can manifest as a concert in a club, an interactive piece of dance theater, a component of a full theatrical production, full on frenzy or as still as a gallery installation.
IBO is interested in the impulse of the artist and how it makes them behave in the ritual of live performance. Does the idiosyncratic impulse of the artist/musician/dancer create the vision / behavior, or does the behavior create the idiosyncrasies? Chicken or Egg? Symbiosis?
IBO believes in improvisation.
IBO believes in chaos and synchronicity walking hand in hand.
IBO believes in action / reaction.
IBO believes in simultaneous play.
IBO believes in ritual.
IBO believes in crossing disciplinary boundaries.
IBO believes we are members of a tribe.
IBO believes in IBO.
IBO believes in YOU.
THE IMPENDING BEHAVIOR ORCHESTRA
PERFORMS DREAMLAND STATION ON SATURDAY JULY 25TH
@ PROP THTR -- 3502 N ELSTON - CHICAGO, IL * $15 suggested * 9PM
Contact: Barry Bennett:
impendingbarry@gmail.com
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