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[vikramsinghuniverse]

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From my play "Karna Uvacha."  Thank you for your love and support... We will back soon with the production

[steelcityreviews]

FRINGE REVIEWS 2022 - SAMCA

Cast: Natalia Bushnik, Kathleen Welch, Madeline Kennedy, Andra Zlâtar, Jenna Geen, Camila Farah, Sydney Nicholson

Co-Playwrights/Composer: Natalia Bushnik and Kathleen Welch

Director: Brendan Kinnon 

Show dates, times and tickets available here: https://boxoffice.hftco.ca/event/866:609/

Content Warning: Sexual Content, Coarse Language, Violence (enacted live or graphic description), Abortion, Descriptions of Sexual Assault

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Tread lightly...for the woods can hear you.

Winner of the 2022 Hamilton Fringe New Play Contest, theatre companies Spindle Collective and Riot King team up to present SAMCA, a contemporary, horror folktale. SAMCA shares the story of two sisters, Miha and Prava, and the horrors that happen in the woods at night.

Having seen the incredible storytelling prowess of Natalia Bushnik in The Bathtub Girls (which subsequently won the Hamilton Fringe Critic's Choice Award in 2017), I was fully aware of this production’s potential to unnerve and fascinate audiences. It did not disappoint whatsoever in that regard. Inspired by Romanian folklore of witches and demons that rule the deep, dark forests, SAMCA combines choreographed movement, eerie musical pieces and deranged, intense images throughout. It is some of the most unhinged yet hauntingly beautiful moments I’ve seen staged in a very long time. 

The entire cast collectively dominates the stage and creates an atmosphere of uncertainty and dread. The chorus acts as an extension of the forest in an almost nymph-like manner. They narrate the various trials of womanhood effectively through music and song as well as their looming presence over the main characters as they journey through their bonds of sisterhood, sexual awakening, sexual trauma and the maliciousness of what happens when the role of motherhood is forced upon or taken from them. 

Director Brendan Kinnon understands this script and its messages intimately, and stages it with precision. There are no wasted moments here. Through the simple stage design, the forest itself become an entity that is always listening, watching and waiting. The ending is visceral and the audience murmured with shock and unease especially when the epilogue is delivered at us, rather than to us. A final warning that the spirit of SAMCA is always there.

The show’s publicity hashtag is simple and I couldn’t agree more: #SeeSAMCA 

[frazerbrown-producer]

Had an amazing night at Guys and Dolls at the Bridge Theatre. It was wonderful catching up with old friends from Wall Street to Walton and meeting so many new friends. Having so many finance, PR, and entrepreneurial buddies from around the world in one place was truly a blessing. I loved every minute.

I can’t recommend the show enough! It has always been a favorite (my father-in-law played Sky Masterson alongside Bob Hoskins and Bernard Cribbins at the National). This version was spectacular—see it before it ends and make sure you stand in the pit! And stay for the dance-off!

🎼 Sit down, you’re rocking the boat!

All videos were taken before the show, during the interval, and after.

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#Theatre #Theater #LiveTheatre #LiveTheater #Broadway #OffBroadway #WestEnd #MusicalTheatre #MusicalTheater #Play #Playwright #Stage #Drama #Comedy #Tragedy #TheatreLife #TheatreLove #TheatreKid #TheatreNerd #TheatreGeeks #TheatreCommunity #TheatreProduction #TheatreSchool #TheatreClass #TheatrePerformance #TheatreArts #Acting #Actor #Actress #Director #StageManager #SetDesign #CostumeDesign #LightingDesign #SoundDesign #PropDesign #Dance #Choreography #Casting #Rehearsal #OpeningNight #CurtainCall #StandingOvation #TheatreFestival #CommunityTheatre #AmateurDramatics #StudentTheatre #TheatreHistory #TheatreCritics #TheatreReview #theatre #producer #film #comics #books #charity #director #filmproducer #redcabincomics #talesfromthequarantine

[brendtjacob]

Went to see the musical acrobatic spectacle, Dans Ton Cœur at Théâtre du Rond-Point. It was funny and amazing. It was such a wonderful show. I highly recommend it. It’s a must see. #show #spectacle #musical #play #theatre #theatreperformance #performance #stageplay #stageperformance #fyp #fypage #foryou #foryourpage #foryoupage #tiktok #tiktoker #tiktokerist #reels #fbreels #tiktok #instareels

[kedarstha]

𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠...

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞 - 𝐀𝐧 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐘𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚, 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐒𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐚'𝐬 𝐖𝐢𝐟𝐞

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆 𝗯𝘆 𝗥𝗮𝗺 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗶 𝗗𝗵𝗮𝗸𝗮𝗹

𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝟐𝟑, 𝟐𝟒 & 𝟐𝟓 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒 𝐚𝐭 𝟏𝟗:𝟎𝟎 - 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐮 𝐎𝐬𝐥𝐨.

🅶🅴🆃 🆃🅸🅲🅺🅴🆃🆂: https://www.universe.com/events/the-rose-tickets-ZM5T1B

#theatreperformance #physicaltheatre #selfrealization #NonverbalPerformance #buddha #yashodhara #ramharidhakal

[nishaniran-blog]

. . To all beautiful people who have sent several enquires, we will reach out to you very soon and offer our services and products. Thank you for your patience and understanding. . . Was immersed in Theatre in the last 3 days. We played the N•A•V•A•R•A•S•A - 9•emotions again yesterday, and it was the third full house theatre performance since last month. 2 shows coming up in November again, and that's the last for this year. . . And then a Training Intervention using Theatre today for a corporate. . October has been a bonanza month. Touch Wood!! I would love to live it this way every month, month after month... and feel more energized than tired after working extra hours. . . We will be back with #Kokedamas again. . . #kokedama #theatre #theatreexpression #navarasa #theatreperformance https://www.instagram.com/p/B3kIgVHJ-KB/?igshid=1musrdwpg2lrv

[theatreworksstkilda]

DRIVE: REBECCA MESTON IN TOP GEAR

Theatre People

K.E. WEBER — MAY 31, 2019

Inspired by true events, playwright Rebecca Meston, has written a tale of loss and heartbreak set to a backdrop of time and space.

Drive is a play that was inspired by former NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak, who in 2007 drove from Houston to Orlando to confront her ex-lover’s lover and supposed attempt to kidnap her. Five months before this event she had been up in space on a mission.

Meston was gripped by the crime at the time, but it wasn’t until 10 years later, when she was constantly driving across regional SA that she remembered it like a flash.

“Then I couldn’t stop thinking about it,” she says. ” Now with a small child in the back of my car, and driving amidst highways and freeways and long stretches of horizon, I was struck by the more thematic elements of the story, like how big the world is, and how incredibly small. How completely capable and driven you can be when the stakes are so high, but you’re also feeling lost, or grief-stricken, or heartbroken.”

“Looking out at the road there was this immediate sense of “I can’t look away now. I can’t get distracted. Or seek to be distracted. Yes there may be a banger of a song on the radio and I’ll go into memory, or fantasy, or a conversation I wish could happen, but ultimately, at the eleventh hour of this drive, I will have to face it. Face myself.'”

While the show is about an astronaut and an otherworldly backdrop, it’s really about loss, heartbreak, the end of a marriage, a long-term relationship. In an epic way. Meston explains that the show charts a 14-hour trip through space and time, in the back seat of our heroine’s car, memory and fantasy come and go like a dark, otherworldly version of Taxicab Confessions.

Meston goes on to say that beyond the location and Americana of it all, is a 14-hour unravelling of a highly capable woman; filled with mess, nuance, and controlled rage. How does this happen? What does a complex unravelling of an inner-life look like? Bringing it back to the here and now, the relevant themes explored include:

How a woman so at the top of her game, with a family and a 19-year marriage, can fall so spectacularly apart?

How we often use this old adage “the truth will set you free”, but what is the actual process of getting free? What do you have to go through first? Is it a dark 14-hour drive of the soul made through the middle of a rainy night?

How close are any of us, at any time, to snapping? To getting into a car and not looking back? Do we in fact all have 10 per cent of Lisa Nowak in us somewhere?

When you put your distractions aside, your double screening, your social media, your Game of Thrones addiction, all the stuff that helps you look away, and properly face yourself, what happens?

The engrossing work took approximately two years of work from initial concept to completed work.  A first stage development, as part of Vitalstatistix’ ‘Incubator’ residency, was done in May, 2017. Meston then worked on it with dramaturg Saffron Benner, as part of ‘A Month in the Country’ at Hothouse, and then, in 2018, it went through an inSPACE development with a packed out showing. Meston and team have now spent four weeks rehearsing and it’s primed and ready.

Meston confesses that one of the challenges of getting Drive to performance stage was in explaining the idea in one or two quick sentences!

“The form of the show – road theatre – and that audiences are basically going on a drive from A to B over 50 minutes – isn’t a style we regularly see on stages,” says Meston. “We have road movies, Thelma and Louise, Death Proof, etc, but what does road theatre look like and feel like? What are its conventions? How do you abstract a car? All brilliant creative challenges.”

Meston acknowledges that the joys, on the other hand, was making this very style of work, and with a story that explores the more complex and nuanced elements of what it feels like to be human. “And working with an extraordinary team of artists who care deeply about making new work, and who are all exceptionally good at bringing new Australian work to life,” she says.

Research was a big part of Meston’s journey with two years devoted to researching the world of astronauts, NASA, space travel and what it takes to get there. In that time,  Metson’s insight into the world and mind of her lead character, Stella, heightened making writing her a little easier.  

“When it came to writing the show, it all just poured out of me,” she says. “Maybe “easier” is the wrong response. It was still really hard too, Stella is a tricky character and not exactly the easiest person to spend time with. “

“She is going through great loss while in a sense coping, or treating her car drive like a mission into space. No it didn’t end well, but she was highly functional. I relate to this, as I’m sure a lot of audiences will. We don’t all fall apart and become immobilised during loss and grief. Some of us do the exact opposite. I felt I knew my material very well, as opposed to her being “easier to write'”.

As a playwright, Meston cares about finding the genre that serves the story. Whether it’s cabaret, stand-up, direct address, a punk rock musical, a five-hour durational public performance. “Growing up, when my mum was angry at me when I’d have a friend over, she’d sometimes whisper in my ear, “When I get you behind closed doors, WOE BETIDE!!” (she’s English)”

It’s precisely this that interests her. The behind-closed-doors of a character. The hard parts of a character. Not the one smiling broadly, and waving goodbye to said friend. The one who closes the door, turns and shows the mess, the anger and all that’s been temporarily flattened out for public display.

“There is a British/Nordic detective series called Marcella with Anna Friel which I found so intriguing in the making of this work,” explains Meston. “The character of Marcella is not immediately likeable, but you are with her, care about her, are on her side, from the beginning because of her richly drawn, nuanced character who is neither maiden, mother or crone. The storytellers I like best include Patricia Cornelius, Kate Mulvany, Bryony Kimmings, Clare Barron, Jeanette Winterson, Barbara Trapdio and my late friend, poet Hima Raza.”

Next on the list for Meston is the making of Hits of the 70s, 80s and 90s – an intimate cabaret with a live choir, which aims to reimagine the mythology of Australian rock music from a female perspective.

Meston explains that it will feature a rambling house party come front bar of an Australian pub, complete with garish, swirly carpet that sticks to your feet and reeks of stale beer and cigarettes.

But for now, Meston’s focus is Drive – a work that aims to be brutal, funny, aware of itself as theatre and profoundly moving.

As the show charts a 14-hour trip through space and time, in the back seat of our heroine’s car, memory and fantasy come and go like a dark, otherworldly version of Taxicab Confessions. Urgent and immediate, Drive tells the stories you will never read about on your Instagram feed, but to which your heart will explosively relate.

June 6 – 15

www.theatreworks.org.au/program/drive/

[daniellesophie93]

Habbit Factory Adult Show ❤️ . #musicaltheatre #theatre #dance #HabbitFactory #acting #sing #theatreperformance #performance #performer #theatrephotography #theatrelife #theatrecompany #havering #theatrelights #stagelights #stagephotography #stageleft #stage (at Myplace) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu3Fj4Wlh1Y/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=9p3585jsdhyq

[kristineknowlton]

BTS of “The Carnage Returns” of Melanie. Only a handful more shows to go at The Brighton Fringe Fest!! . . #bts #theatre #theatreperformance #thecarnagereturns #carnagereturns #uk #london #brightonfringe #brightonfringefestival #actor #kristineknowlton #theatreactor https://www.instagram.com/p/Cdl0jArOnxF/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[vickylordreview]

Theatrical Puppetry Art Suggestions

Hey guys, I’m looking for some inspiration for a new stagey art project I’m thinking of starting: If you could see any musical (or play) restaged with puppetry included which one would it be and how would you incorporate the puppetry? 😄🎭I’ve included some pictures below as some examples. I do not take credit for any of these photographs.

Topic inspired by: The Grinning Man, War Horse, Little Shop of Horrors, Pinocchio, Avenue Q and Lion King the Musical.

[simsalabimproductions]

THE ESCAPE OF IRIS DUPONT playing on-line at VOILA Europe Theatre Festival 14th November 2020 at 13.30

We're thrilled to be part of #VoilaEurope festival! THE ESCAPE OF IRIS DUPONT will be online/@Cockpittheatre on  9 - 22 November 2020

Join us on Zoom from anywhere in the world. 

Saturday 14th November at 13.30 On-line Show.  A live discussion with our Artistic Director Freya Stang  after the show broadcast at 14.30.

Join us by booking 

TICKETS: https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/.../14-november-130pm/ticket

[sharonfacinelliactress]

#artfromtheheart @swkplay @directorscuttheatre #petetalman #ecclesiasticalbakeoff #theatre #thelast #theatreperformance #beforelockdown #photography @geo_joz #saveourtheatres #supporttheatre #actress #actresslife #imisstheatre https://www.instagram.com/p/CCXt9bkAy6L/?igshid=oebokyfy818w

[visitbeniciaofficial]

'Born Yesterday' starts Friday at 8 p.m. . Plan a fun evening or afternoon at Benicia Old Town Theatre Group’s fall production, the romantic comedy by Garson Kanin. Shows time are Fridays & Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m., October 18-November 9. Tickets are $22/General Admission, $20/Seniors 62+ & Students with I.D., $45/Dinner & Show Deal, $30/Opening Night Champagne Gala. Tickets available online BeniciaOldTownTheatreGroup.com . . . @beniciatheater @visitbenicia #bornyesterday #comedy #downtown #benicia #theatreperformance #weekend #fun #liveentertainment (at Benicia, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3sP676FJiQ/?igshid=1hwqlo826kc5t

[yuval-david]

MC’ing last night and sharing the stage for an evening of theatre and music performances with @israeliartistsproject — #YuvalDavid #IsraeliArtistsProject #MC #Host #Actor #IsraeliArtist #IsraeliTheatre #IsraeliMusic #MasterOfCeremonies #StagePerformance #TheatrePerformance #PerformingArts #PublicSpeaker #NewYorkTheatre #nyctheatre #MaleActor #MalePerformer #JewishActor #JewishPerformer #IsraeliActor #IsraeliPerformer #OnStage #PerformancePhotography (at Triad Theatre) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2wv_EQhEY9/?igshid=1wsw0qsrhvzy

[daniellesophie93]

Habbit Factory Adult Show ❤️ . #musicaltheatre #theatre #dance #HabbitFactory #acting #sing #theatreperformance #performance #performer #theatrephotography #theatrelife #theatrecompany #havering #theatrelights #stagelights #stagephotography #stageleft #stage (at Myplace) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu3FjaNlFge/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1rv65ui1vv68e