Lamb Lays with Lion & New Saloon present a double bill: Entitlement and William Shakespeare's Mom. Entitlement is part 3 of The American Trilogy and William Shakespeare's Mom is an excessive portrayal of suffering. Both run January 17th - 26th, 2013. Press dates beginning tonight, January 17th, 2013.
Lamb Lays with Lion's Entitlement (part 3 of the American Trilogy) :
Entitlement is a new work that peers at the sphere of blogs and oped columns, whose scope spans right-wing conservative talk radio to left-wing liberal facebook posts. Employing the Theatre of Disruption and using self-enclosed lighting, the piece looks at mothers who desire maids over roombas, grown adults living at home playing xbox, and men who drive jeeps because their bosses commit suicide.Having presented parts 1 and 2 of the American Trilogy, ($ at the Tank, as well as Ignorance at the Democracy Festival,) Lamb Lays with Lion looks with great anticipation to producing the trilogy's final installment during their"presidency" at The Brick Theater.
Conceived, Written, and Directed by Jeremey Catterton.
Set, Costumes, and Choreography by Company.
Company: Jeremey Catterton, Julia Mae Fairbanks, Jake Ford, Breese Pickel.
More information on the company: lamblayswithlion.org.
New Saloon's William Shakespeare's Mom (an excessive portrayal of suffering):
Through a necessary battle with truth, Will (Shakespeare) tries to be sincere, fries himself an egg, joins a marching band, books extravagant trips that he knows he will ultimately cancel, and texts his mom for money. He struggles to discover financial success and artistic recognition in one and the same lifetime.New Saloon presents an under-the-kitchen-sink drama starring great artists, their mothers and their mothers' interns. WSM is a meditation on the comic and common anxieties of the artist: How can such a person contribute to society in any era without feeling like a dependent louse? Can artistic integrity and the American dream co-exist?Written by Milo Cramer
Directed by Morgan Green
With: Madeline Wise, Noah Schechter, and Caitlin Morris
More information on the company: newsaloon.org
Bios:
Lamb Lays with Lion is an original and experimental performance company based in Brooklyn, NY. They have presented original works at New York's The Tank, The Brick and The 14th Street Y Theater, Minneapolis' Guthrie Theatre, The Southern Theater, The Bedlam Theater, The Bryant Lake Bowl, as well as The Rude Mechanical's Off-Center in Austin, TX.
Jeremey Catterton (writer/director/producer): Jeremey has produced and presented theater commissions, company experiments, as well as his own original works in NY at The Tank, The Brick and The 14th Street Y Theater, Minneapolis, MNs The Guthrie Theatre, Austin, TXs The Rude Mechanicals' Off-Center, Seattle, WA's On the Boards, New York City's The Kitchen, as well as multiple venues in London, England and Bali, Indonesia. He attended Middlesex University London for his Masters in Directing, the University of MN/Guthrie Theater BFA actor-training program, and the Interlochen Arts Academy.
New Saloon is a Brooklyn-based, Bard College-born theater collective comprised of Madeline Wise, Morgan Green, and Milo Cramer. They most recently appeared in their second iteration of a devised work, Buster Keaton'S RIDE Buster Keaton RIDES AGAIN: A SEQUEL after Spicer after Lorca, based on two poems by Jack Spicer, at Dixon place in November 2012. Morgan and Madeline were grade school class Presidents. Milo can play the ukulele.
Performances:
Thursday, 1/17 - 8pm
Friday, 1/18 - 8pm
Saturday, 1/19 - 8pm
Sunday, 1/20 - 3pm & 8pm
Thursday 1/24 - 8pm
Friday, 1/25- 8pm
Saturday, 1/26 - 8pm
General Admission: $20. Purchase in advance the bricktheater.com @ Ovationtix.com. The Brick is located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn at: 575 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11211 (between Union Avenue and Lorimer Street). Subway Directions: Take the train to the Lorimer stop or the train to the Metropolitan stop, and the theater is less than a block away.
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