{MY LINGERIE PLAY} Starts Tonight at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
By: BWW News Desk Sep. 27, 2017
The World Premiere of {my lingerie play} 2017: THE CONCERT AND CALL TO ARMS!!!!!!!!! The Final Installation, the first Mainstage production of the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater's 2017/18 Season in association with Rosalind Productions Inc. begins previews tonight, September 27, 2017, and opens on Monday, October 9, 2017 at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater (224 Waverly Place) for a limited run through Saturday, October 28, 2017.
{my lingerie play} 2017: THE CONCERT AND CALL TO ARMS!!!!!!!!! The Final Installation, story, music and lyrics by 2017-2018 Tow Playwright in Residence Diana Oh, is co-directed by Orion Stephanie Johnstone and Oh.
What drives an artist to stand in her black corset in Times Square on a soapbox? It began at 17 with her first shoplifted f*ck me bra. Over the course of this unfiltered and soul-baring event, Diana Oh's personal collection of unmentionables comes on and off as she and her band ignite the audience to create a saner, safer, more courageous world for us all.
{my lingerie play} 2017: THE CONCERT AND CALL TO ARMS!!!!!!!!! The Final Installation is a play, a protest, a concert, and an installation all at once. Through this entertaining concert-play, Diana and her band explore sexual and gender politics through mainstream culture's relationship to the female and gender-queer body. This will be the final installation in a collection of 10 new visual and performance installations for 2017 as supported by the Venturous Theater Fund of Tides Foundation.
{my lingerie play} 2017: THE CONCERT AND CALL TO ARMS!!!!!!!!! The Final Installation is a culmination of installations that have taken place throughout NYC and the United States.
In addition to Oh, {my lingerie play} 2017: THE CONCERT AND CALL TO ARMS!!!!!!!!! The Final Installation features Ryan McCurdy (Music Direction/Drums), Matt Park (Guitar) and Rocky Vega (Bass). It also features set design by Carolyn Mraz, light design by Kate McGee, and sound design by Brendan Aanes.
Tickets for {my lingerie play} 2017: THE CONCERT AND CALL TO ARMS!!!!!!!!! The Final Installation are $40, with $30 tickets available for performances from September 27 to October 8. Additionally, $20 tickets will be available to artists and $10 tickets will be available to students. Tickets for {my lingerie play} 2017 can be purchased at www.rattlestick.org and by phone at 212-627-2556. Standard ticketing fees apply to all orders.
The performance schedule for {my lingerie play} 2017: THE CONCERT AND CALL TO ARMS!!!!!!!!! The Final Installation is as follows: Thursday through Monday at 7:30pm. There will be additional 7:30pm performances on Wednesday, September 27 and Wednesday, October 4.
The Tow Foundation has awarded $75,000 grants to seven New York City theatres to support a playwright of their choosing as the 2017-18 Tow Playwright-in-Residence. The residency program includes a full-time salary for each playwright, and the residencies will include a guaranteed full production of a play by each playwright at their respective sponsor theatre company. Diana Oh is one of the recipients with {my lingerie play} 2017: THE CONCERT AND CALL TO ARMS!!!!!!!!! The Final Installation.
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater is a multi-award-winning Off-Broadway theater company. Since 1994, Rattlestick has created, developed and produced many of the nation's greatest playwrights and their works. Starting its 23rd Season, Rattlestick has produced over 100 new plays, over 90 percent of which have been world premieres. In 2007, Rattlestick received the Ross Wetzsteon OBIE Award for sustained excellence in recognition of our outstanding achievement in Off-Broadway theater. Our mission is to present diverse, challenging and provocative plays that might not otherwise be produced and to foster the future voices of the American theater. Unique in its dedication, Rattlestick guarantees a second production to any playwright we take on, regardless of the reception of the first.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Diana Oh is an actor/singer-songwriter/theatremaker/artist of color working to queer the world with her radical non-complacency. Primer for a Failed Superpower (music supervision Orion Johnstone / dir. Rachel Chavkin), Taylor Mac's 24 Decades, Toshi Reagon's Parable of the Sower, Judtih Malina's History of the World, New Line Cinema's How to Be Single. Creator, writer, and performer of {my lingerie play}, Asian People are Not Magicians on Mic.com, One of Refinery 29's Top 14 LGBTQ Influencers, The First Queer Korean American interviewed on Korean Broadcast Radio, A Radical Diva Finalist, Van Lier Fellow in Acting (Asian American Arts Alliance), TOW Fellow, Venturous Capital Grant Recipient, and Elphaba Thropp Fellow. www.mylingerieplay.com
I want to create the kind of art that makes people sweat from their soul. I want to make the impossible feel possible in the room. And I believe vulnerability will save us all. I want to create the kind of art that makes people feel ZERO shame about the sex they're having and how they're having it and who they're having it with (unless they're hurting people, in which case, f*ck that). Get out there and Make Love Possible!
ORION STEPHANIE JOHNSTONE
ORION STEPHANIE JOHNSTONE (Co-Director) is a theatermaker/organizer/sexuality educator/community minister/composer with a fierce commitment to our collective liberation. Their original music has been at venues including Joe's Pub, the Bushwick Starr, HERE, 3LD, and CSC. They were the assoc. MD of War Horse (1st nat'l tour), and they are music supervisor for the TEAM's Primer for a Failed Superpower, alongside director Rachel Chavkin. They co-host the podcast Sex For Smart People, they are the chief director of content for KinkedIn: a new dating app for kinky people, and they recently co-created a new alternative divinity school for soulful community builders, and they studied justice ministries at Auburn Seminary. www.orionjohnstone.com
May we deepen into the call to co-create a world that can hold all of us, where eventually the concepts of sexual assault and shame will not even compute, where generations from now we won't even need words for such things. Even if we can't fully comprehend it yet, may we know in our blood and in our bones that this is possible.
ROSALIND PRODUCTIONS INC.
Headed by Abigail Rose Solomon, Rosalind Productions, Inc. is a prolific producer of new and classic work on and Off-Broadway, as well as nationally. Currently, the company is a co-producer of the new Broadway musical War Paint, starring two- time Tony Award winners Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole, as business legends Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden. Past Broadway shows include If/Then and The Miracle Worker. Off-Broadway, the company produced The New York Premiere of The Last Seder, New York Premiere of A Splintered Soul and John Patrick Shanley's Savage in Limbo. In Los Angeles: Misalliance, Proof, As You Like It and the World Premiere of Stages. The mission of Rosalind Productions, Inc. is to explore stories in which the female characters are as vital, complex and influential as the male characters, with the goal to entertain, empower and enlighten audiences. www.RosalindProductions.com
RATTLESTICK PLAYWRIGHTS THEATER
Since 1994, RATTLESTICK PLAYWRIGHTS THEATER has created, developed and produced many of the nation's greatest playwrights and their works. Our mission is to provide a positive, nurturing experience for emerging playwrights, to present diverse and challenging plays that otherwise might not be produced, and to foster the future voices of American theater. When we take on a playwright, we guarantee him or her a second production, regardless of the reception of the first. We have produced the first plays and early works of some of today's leading voices, including Annie Baker (The Aliens), Sheila Callaghan (That Pretty, Pretty), Jesse Eisenberg (The Revisionist), Martyna Majok (Ironbound), Adam Rapp (The Hallway Trilogy), Lucy Thurber (The Hilltown Plays), and Craig Wright (The Pavilion). They have also produced works by some of our nation's most important playwrights, including Charles Fuller (One Night...), Craig Lucas (Ode to Joy), Dael Orlandersmith (Horsedreams), and José Rivera (Massacre, Sing to Your Children), whose risky and challenging works other theaters are unwilling to produce. For more info visit www.rattlestick.org.
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