18 playwrights. 3 plays. One performance of each. Piper McKenzie's Dainty Cadaver is an Exquisite Corpse-style playmaking project in which multiple playwrights collaborate on a single work without knowing what the hell the others are doing. Each writer reads the previous scene, writes a new scene, and passes it on to the next writer - who doesn't see any of what came earlier. Beautiful madness ensues.
For its inaugural edition, Piper McKenzie will present one-night-only performances of three new plays written in this unique collaborative style, with results ranging from inspired chaos to eerie synchronicity - all tied together by the unique voices of 18 hot playwrights, divided into three teams and staged by three directors. The teams and their performance details are as follows:
TEAM A: Fri 1/28, 8pm: Johnna Adams (The Angel Eaters Trilogy), Eric Bland (Emancipatory Politics: A Romantic Tragedy), Jeff Lewonczyk (Theater of the Arcade),
Mac Rogers (Viral), Crystal Skillman (The Vigil or the Guided Cradle),
Art Wallace (The Plowman's Lunch). Directed by
JorDana Williams (Viral).
TEAM B: Sat 1/29, 8pm:
Danny Bowes (Q&A), Matt Freeman (The Brandywine Distillery Fire),
Qui Nguyen (Alice in Slasherland), Carolyn Raship (Antarctica), August Schulenburg (The Lesser Seductions of History), Alexis Sottile (Small Dinner). Directed by
Hope Cartelli (Bethlehem or Bust).
TEAM C: Sun 1/30, 3pm: Maggie Cino (Ascending Bodily), James Comtois (The Little One), John DeVore (Tupperware Orgy),
Cara Francis (The Soup Show), Rich Lovejoy (A Brief History of Murder), Justin Maxwell (Your Lithopedion). Directed by
John Hurley (The Vigil or the Guided Cradle).
Piper McKenzie's Dainty Cadaver will perform at The Brick Theater (575 Metropolitan Avenue between Union and Lorimer Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn). Tickets to all shows ($15) may be purchased online at www.bricktheater.com or by calling 212-352-3101 or 212-868-4444.
Piper McKenzie (pipermckenzie.com) has been a fixture of the downtown and Brooklyn scenes since being founded by
Hope Cartelli and Jeff Lewonczyk in 1998. According to ComicCritique.com, Piper McKenzie's "high-minded lowbrow has released an inner childishness that's been a light unto indie nation for some time now." Piper McKenzie creates mock-epic movement theater and kinetic plays/musicals at the intersection of physicality, comedy and mythology (both pop-culture and historical), including such recent shows as Bethlehem or Bust: How the Three Kings Teamed Up to Deliver the World's Very First Christmas Presents; Theater of the Arcade: Five Classic Video Games Adapted for the Stage ("Brilliant" - NYTimes); Craven Monkey and the Mountain of Fury; and the FringeNYC hit musical Willy Nilly: A Musical Exploitation of the Most Far-Out Cult Murders of the Psychedelic Era.
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