Egg & Spoon Moves To Access Theater For Second Season

One of the newer members of the Off-Off Broadway community has just announced their second season, set to begin in September at Access Theater in SoHo.

After graduating from Syracuse University in the Spring of last year, and realizing that there was a significant lack of opportunity for theatre artists who had just finished their training and had moved to NYC, Liam Lonegan and Catherine Giddings decided that they had to help fill that gap. They hit the ground running by founding Egg & Spoon Theatre Collective, and programming an impulsive and eclectic three-show season at Shetler Studios on 54th Street, that ended up recruiting 45 artists to join this mini-movement.

Now, with a hunger that's growing stronger than they can handle, Egg & Spoon has just announced a four-show season, and a move downtown to the historic Access Theater between Broadway and White Street.

"Our loyal audience, which we have been building over the past season, is going to love coming to Access Theater," Lonegan says. "The passionate and curative energy that the building evokes just screams what Egg & Spoon is all about. We are so ready to bring our work downtown, where it proudly belongs."

Egg & Spoon has had a full year to learn, make mistakes, and take risks. Now, it's time for this young organization to get its hands dirty with a season that is sure to keep its artists involved, and audiences coming back. These plays are true to what this collective has become and ask questions that ring loud and clear in today's climate: "In our domestic, political, psychological and theatre-making lives, who are we? Is there a better way to be?"

Subscriptions to Egg & Spoon's Season Two are purchasable in two, three or four show packages, and include seriously discounted tickets and more perks. For more info, go to: www.eggandspoontheatre.org/season-2/

 

MORE & EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS

a trilogy of new plays by Amelia French

directed by Catherine Giddings

September 6th-9th, 2018

A young person brings a tour group to the house where they grew up; generations of women can't agree on basic metaphysics; a boy invites a mother-shaped demon inside. A new kind of American cycle emerges from the mind of Amelia French-- cats banter with ghosts, perceptions compete viciously, and the weary bones of family drama dance anew.

 

CRAVE by Sarah Kane

directed by Adam Coy

November 15th-18th, 2018

Our second production charts the disintegration of a human mind. Four voices spring from a void, longing for freedom in a world full of familiar anxieties. Sarah Kane's language is her legacy-- her splintered, haunting poetry burst onto the British stage in the 1990s and continues to resonate today.

 

THE KILLER by Eugene Ionesco

directed by Liam Lonegan

February 7th-10th, 2019

Despite its immaculate beauty, our city is losing light. Quickly. We know who's responsible, and finally there is a citizen determined enough to stop him. Originally produced in Paris in 1959, this play's bleak absurdism speaks to the current moment more than we'd like to admit.

 

THE RATS by Kathleen Kennedy

an Egg & Spoon commission

directed by Liam Lonegan

May 16th-19th, 2019

There are over two million rats in New York City, but I bet you've never spoken to one. Right? Thought so. Well neither had she. Join playwright and comedienne Kathleen Kennedy for an Egg & Spoon commission about a server who struggles to see the best in everyone, no matter the species.

 

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