Hook & Eye Theater's 2016 PlayLabs to Kick Off in January

Hook & Eye Theater is proud to announce its fourth season of Instant PlayLabs. Beginning in January 2016, the company will open its doors to artists of every discipline (on a first come/first served basis) for three nights of creative generation. Each PlayLab will focus on an aspect of their newest show, which is a collaborative elaboration on America's National Parks and the She-She-She camps initiated in 1933 by Eleanor Roosevelt as an answer to the Civilian Conservation Corps.

Registration for the first PlayLab will open on December 1st. Invitations to register will be sent to the PlayLab mailing list, which is free to join at: www.hookandeyetheater.com/get-updates

PLAYLABS Free to actors, musicians, playwrights, directors and attendees, Hook & Eye's PlayLabs bring new short plays to life in an open workshop setting. The plays are loosely commissioned by the company - and we draw names from a hat on the night of the PlayLab to cast the roles. After a group warm-up, each "company" gets an hour to work, a director, a musician or choreographer. The evening ends with a show and quick discussion of what has unfolded. In all, it brings together the artistic community in a low-pressure high-energy night of creativity.

Remaining performances for God is a Verb are Monday, November 16 at 7pm; Wednesday, November 18 at 7pm; Thursday, November 19 at 7pm; Friday, November 20 at 8pm and Saturday, November 21 at 8pm at The Actors Fund Arts Center @ The Schermerhorn (160 Schermerhorn Street between Hoyt and Smith Streets, Brooklyn). Tickets ($25) are available at www.artful.ly/godisaverb.

GOD IS A VERB is an engaging and urgent portrait of a world - and a man - on the brink. In the fall of 1969, an eccentric professor gathers a team of offbeat academics to play a game with one goal: make the world work for all humanity. What unfolds tears spacetime as we are whisked from a beatnik cafe to a treetop congressional hearing and back by way of a university telephone. As the clock ticks, the lines blur between the game and the real world and we wonder if we've detached from reality altogether.

HOOK & EYE THEATER is an ensemble company of theater-makers, actors, dancers, musicians and artists based in Brooklyn, NY. Founded in 2010 by Carrie Heitman and Chad Lindsey, the company uses a unique collaborative method to craft totally new theatrical pieces full of joyful athleticism, soul, and song. They believe in heavy cross-pollination among disciplines and use an extended creative process, which they believe yields memorable theater. The Core Members teach playwriting at New York's Professional Performing Arts School, and offer free PlayLabs where new work is brought forward, built and developed. Hook & Eye's performance history includesUnlawful Gatherings, an original play about hoarding and the Velvet Revolution; Fidgital Spring, a rhapsody of movement and mobile devices done in homage to Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, (performed at the Figment Project on Governors Island, the Stampede Lab at the Chain in L.I.C, and Muffins in the Window at the COW). Their most recent piece, The Summoners, an impressionistic flipbook of modern small-town America, ran in January 2014. Work continues on two new full-length pieces,Wander/Lust and GOD IS A VERB, which runs through November 21 at The Actors Fund Arts Center. The mission of Hook & Eye is to build inspiring and inquisitive theater productions to embolden audiences of every age. They are committed to compensating artists for their work, and offering low-or no-cost tickets to audiences and students.