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Calendar:

June 25th: Kinderspiel reading @ 6th Floor Series

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

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
Tomorrow: Kinderspiel staged reading
June 25th, 7pm
Soho Think Tank's 6th Floor Series

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 Kabaret 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, 6th Floor
(Between Spring & Broome)


"[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

One performance left!
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!
Just 1 performance left of Stolen Chair's Commedia Dell' Artemisia at The Pretentious Festival

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.

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