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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


"Kiran Rikhye's script is clever...witty...and gives the audience rich food for thought. Cameron J. Oro has...has an amazingly commanding voice and precisely the light quality of movement needed for such demanding work. David Bengali...is a true virtuoso... The company is clearly on the right path." -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."
-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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Messymaking on the 6th Floor
Kinderspiel's staged reading at Soho Think Tank's 6th Floor Series

We turned 10 hours of rehearsal and 20 pages of text into an entertaining hour-long experiment, throwing a few dozen handfuls of marinara-soaked spaghetti (or butter-drenched spaetzle, I suppose) against the well to see if anything stuck. And some of it did!To paraphrase the comments of the series' curator, Vannessa Sparling: "Sexualizing children: disturbing; sexualizing adults who are playing like children: very disturbing!"

Read more about the weekend and the reading and check out the slideshow on the blog. Don't forget to mark your calendars for Kinderspiel's opening at UNDER St. Marks on October 4, 2007.