Photo Flash: Rising Phoenix's THE UPSTART
By: Nicole Rosky Feb. 15, 2011
Following the sold out performances and overflow crowds at its first five Cino Nights presentations (ofGary Sunshine's BEST SEX EVER, Mando Alvarado's (O)N THE 5:31,Courtney Baron's HERE I LIE,Florencia Lozano's BUSTED, andKristen Palmer's THE STRAY DOG), Rising Phoenix Rep continues the series on February 13th at 7 p.m. with Emily DeVoti's THE UPSTART. The play features "a Brooklyn butcher, a young writer looking for a place of her own, and Brigid Hitler. Of Long Island." And asks, "How do we become who we are? A series of little, tiny choices."
The production will be directed by Taibi Magar (who returns after directing Mando Alvarado's Cino play in October 2010) and features Edward Carnevale (Street Boss),Julie Kline(Birthday/ RPR), andAnne O'Sullivan(Belle of Amherst/EST).
Inspired by Joe Cino and his Caffe Cino-one of the original birthplaces of Off-Off-Broadway theatre and early home to such writers asDoric Wilson,Robert Patrick,John Guare,Sam Shepard,Lanford Wilson, andWilliam M. Hoffman-New York Innovative Theater Award winning company Rising Phoenix Rep has commissioned twenty playwrights to write new, full-length plays for the Seventh Street Small Stage, the intimate back room space at Jimmy's No. 43 in the East Village, where the company has produced critically acclaimed and award winning productions for the past five years.
Rising Phoenix Rep artistic directorDaniel Talbottdescribed the series as a place to tap into the raw, inspired, inventive, and pioneering work of the Caffe Cino, where the love of theatre and new work was joined with a scrappy, do-it-yourself work ethic. All shows will be rehearsed for a week and then fully mounted and produced, warts and all, for one night only with free admission.
Cino Nights are currently scheduled through March 2012 and will celebrate the spirit of indie theatre as a home for new plays and theatre artists as well as hopefully honor what has been said of the Caffe Cino: "the first studio of theater where playwrights can experiment as painters and poets have done for a century, free from the tyranny of audience, box-office, church, and criticism." The plays will be fully produced for one night only on a more or less monthly basis through March 2012. The remaining playwrights, in the order their plays will appear, are:
Emily DeVoti's THE UPSTART will premiere on February 13, 2011; directed by Taibi Magar and featuring Edward Carnevale,Julie Kline, andAnne O'Sullivan.
Photo Credit: Samantha Soule and Daniel Talbott
Anne O’Sullivan
Julie Kline and Edward Carnevale
Edward Carnevale
Edward Carnevale
Julie Kline and Edward Carnevale
Julie Kline and Edward Carnevale
Edward Carnevale and Julie Kline
Anne O’Sullivan
Anne O’Sullivan and David Shane
Addie Johnson-Talbott, Daniel Talbott and Bailey Talbott
Anne O’Sullivan
Edward Carnevale
Anne O’Sullivan
Anne O’Sullivan
Edward Carnevale
Anne O’Sullivan and Julie Kline
Julie Kline and Anne O’Sullivan
Anne O’Sullivan and Julie Kline
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ulie Kline and Anne O’Sullivan
Jelena Stupljanin, Julie Kline and Anne O’Sullivan
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