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We’re thrilled to announce the line-up for Season 2: Revelation. Coming from an inaugural season about the shaping of one’s identity, we move to plays reflecting our current state: the small and large moments of self- discovery and revelation. The season includes plays about magic and memory, war and weddings, death, art, and life. Join us for this beautiful season of new work.
After an unexpected move to Ypsilanti, The New Theatre Project announces adjustments and additions to the lineup for Season 2: Revelation. The new season will be offered at the newly opened Mix Studio Theatre, a new addition to the downtown Ypsilanti boutique where “cool. people. mix.” Entrances to the theater are through the store at 130 W. Michigan Ave. or via the Washington St. entrance. As part of the exciting move downtown, TNTP will now offer credit card sales but ticket prices stay constant at the low price of $10 and $15. Come early to explore beautiful downtown Ypsi and shop at Mix, open every day prior to the shows.
TNTP is excited to announce the addition of an original musical featuring the music of local artists Match by Match as well as an updated lineup for the postponed Summer New Work Series. A full listing of Season 2 is listed below.
The American Crowbar Case Music and lyrics by Match by Match Book by Jason Sebacher Directed by Keith Paul Medelis Music Direction by Melissa Coppola Choreography by Ben Stange Pay-what-you-can previews: September 30-October 1, 2011 Performances: October 7-23, 2011
In 1848, a spike was blasted through the skull of a railroad-worker, Phineas Gage, taking out most of his frontal lobe. But that’s the least of his problems. The accident spurred him to begin an existential quest for meaning that may just cost him everything, including his beautiful bride-to-be and his life. Nobody knows what really happened to Gage until now, explored in The American Crowbar Case, the new indie-folk musical.
Fugue By Audra Lord Directed by Luna Alexander Featuring Jon Ager, Keith Paul Medelis, Linda Rabin Hammell, and Jamie Weeder Pay-what-you-can previews: November 30-December 1, 2011 Performances: December 2-18, 2011
In a bleak, institutional space, James, Julie, Tina and Princess Stephanie recover from a shared tragic event that resulted in the complete loss of their memories. Fugue follows their attempts to remember, to forget, and to piece together their shared and individual identities. Is it better to leave the past behind? Or to remember, no matter what the cost?
If You Start a Fire [Be Prepared to Burn] By Kevin Kautzman Directed by Nati Salgado Featuring Peter Giessl and Elise Randall Pay-what-you-can preview: February 12, 2012 Performances: February 17-March 4, 2012
An Internet sex comedy for the Recession Generation! Lucy and Chris are typical American twenty-somethings struggling to survive the Great Recession with their dignity intact. They hate their jobs like most everybody else, but they need the insurance, and at least they have each other. Right? When Chris loses his job, he convinces Lucy they should launch a boutique sex website and sell the idea of her as an all-American girl next door, somehow both pure and hedonistic at the same time…
The Spring New Work Series Titles to be announced shortly March 11-April 15, 2012
Staged readings of original work, some for the very first time. An excited and eclectic selection is in store. Stay tuned for details!
Season 2 Capstone: Revealing Shakespeare In the latter half of the season, The New Theatre Project explores Shakespeare in a whole new way. A kind of response to Roland Emmerich’s Anonymous, TNTP attempts to interpret his words for a new audience and honor him without the usual God-like reverence. Please join us for our third, massively successful Project Play and our first and exciting partnership with the Manganello Brothers.
The Tempest Project in a collaborative adaptation by Jason Sebacher directed by Keith Paul Medelis featuring Luna Alexander, Jane Bruce, Dan Tracy, and Andrew Whipple
Pay-what-you-can previews: May 4-6, 2012 Performances: May 11-27, 2012
“What holds you captive?”
The much anticipated third production in the Project Play series, The Tempest Project focuses the attention away from Prospero in one of Shakespeare’s most well known plays. Using the process developed by TNTP through the popular The Spring Awakening Project and The Everyman Project we take a look at the isolation and enslavement of some of the play's smaller characters to explore its contemporary relevance in a new, overtly personal way. The cast uses inspiration from their own lives to build on Shakespeare’s text. And, for the first time ever, the play will spend a year in development as we travel throughout Michigan to ask our central question to you. Your stories could become our play.
The New Theatre Project and the Manganello Brothers present The Folio Project written and performed by Jim Manganello and Paul Manganello Performances: June 7-17, 2012
Two forgotten actors. A mountain of annotated papers. In 1621, they all collide in a printer’s shop behind a pub—two years later, one of the greatest books of all time is born. This show tells the unlikely and little-known story of the construction of Shakespeare’s Folio. Fusing words with movement, the Manganello brothers attempt to bring the Folio into 2012.
This devised work strives to take Shakespeare out of the grave, off the pedestal, and put him back on stage—where he belongs. Two performers play many roles to recreate the madcap story behind the Folio’s first printing, showing that these verses were not handed down by God—just by Will. Just as the printer cut up and pasted together the plays of Shakespeare to make a breathing corpus, the project performs an acrobatic attack on his body of work in order to make its heart beat once again.
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