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Calendar:

June 9th: Commedia Dell' Artemisia @ Swarthmore Alumni Weekend

June 17th & June 29th: Commedia dell'Artemisia @ the Pretentious Festival

June 25th: Kinderspiel reading @ 6th Floor Series

Oct 4- Oct 25: Kinderspiel run @ UNDER St. Marks

The Company:

Artistic Directors
Kiran Rikhye
Jon Stancato
Members
David Bengali
Aviva Meyer
Cameron J. Oro
Emily Otto
Alexia Vernon
Associates
Sam Dingman
May Elbaz
Liza Wade White
Board of Directors
Caroline Barnard
Kiran Rikhye
Rachel Rosenblatt
Jon Stancato
Katherine Walley


"[D]izzying and fun...some of the intricate polysyllabic rhymes are especially impressive...Making an audience think about gender politics in the middle of a raucous seduction scene is undeniably an achievement."
-Martin Denton, NYtheatre.com

"...one of the most elegantly scripted 'rapes' in the history of theatre...[E]xquisite craftsmanship...never ceases to hold the audience's attention."
-David Tenenbaum, 5th Street Review

Two Performances only!
Sunday June 17 @ 2:30pm
Friday June 29 @ 7pm

Brick Theater
575 Metropolitan Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11211
(btw. Union Ave & Lorimer St)
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The Most Important Theater Festival on Earth!

In a daring attempt to rival Moliere's greatest work and single-handedly revive the tradition of Commedia dell'Arte, Stolen Chair presents Commedia dell'Artemisia, a masked farce in rhyming couplets, satirizing the controversial rape trial of Italian Renaissance painter Artemisia Gentileschi. As the teenage virtuosa Artemisia tries to escape the clutches of her miserly father, she becomes entwined with Agostino Tassi, a master painter and criminal who would rather screw than woo. Transforming these complex historical figures into commedia stock characters, Stolen Chair irreverently eviscerates history, hypocrisy, rape, romance, art and artifice.

Read director Jon Stancato's (very pretentious) interview for the Courier.

Read his even MORE pretentious interview for the Pretentious Festival's Blog.

Read about the show's tour to Swarthmore College and view a slideshow.
Kinderspiel staged reading
June 25th, 7pm (Note date change)
Soho Think Tank's 6th Floor Series

Kinderspiel was accepted into Soho Think Tank's 6th Floor Series for a staged reading on June 25th @ 7pm, and will enjoy a full run at UNDER St. Marks in late September. Come check out a Stolen Chair work in its infancy and help sculpt the final product with your feedback...

Set in the demimonde of Weimar Berlin, the Kinderspiel Cabaret offers access to the ultimate taboo: watching adults play as children. Stolen Chair presents the world's greatest children's story, told exclusively for an adult audience. After all, why should childhood be wasted on the young?


June 25th, 7pm
64 Wooster Street
(Between Spring & Broome)
Putting the Fun back in Annual Fundraising Drive
Give now and Co-Artistic Director Jon Stancato will match your gift in push-ups...or at least he'll try!

We're well past the halfway mark...keep the momentum going!

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Interview with clown & commedia king Christopher Bayes
Stolen Chair's newest interview series on the blog...

"No one can afford to have a company anymore. The producing structure has killed the company system. And television has seduced the artists. How long can you pass the hat? (God I' so cynical.)….. Sure. god bless'em! How can I help?"

Read more from maestro of physical comedy Christopher Bayes...