soloNOVA Arts Festival Favorites as part of the All For One Theater Festival

terraNOVA Collective will present five of some of the best and brightest soloNOVA Arts Festival performers as part of the first annual All For One Theater Festival at Theatre 80 St. Marks (80 St. Marks Place at 1st Avenue). Avery Pearson's Monster (2010 New York Innovative Theatre Award Nomination for Outstanding Solo Performance), Martin Dockery's Wanderlust ("Best of Fest" in the Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Orland, Toronto & London Fringe Festivals), Jeff Grow's Creating Illusion (2009 New York Innovative Theatre Awards for Outstanding Short Script and Outstanding Performance Art). Roger Bonair-Agard's Masquerade: Calypso & Home, and Raoul Bhaneja's Hamlet (solo) will receive one time only performances on November 15th & 16th. Tickets ($20; $15 students) are available online at www.afofest.org or by calling (212) 398-7180.

For eight years, the soloNOVA Arts Festival has presented some of the best solo shows in North America. On Wednesday, November 16 at 10:30am the All for One Festival will hold a panel moderated by soloNOVA Arts Festival founder, Jennifer Conley Darling that will examine soloNOVA's uniquely successful selection and development process. Admission to this special solo arts discussion is $10.

Monster
Performed by Avery Pearson
Directed by Steve Cook
Daniel MacIvor's celebrated chiller returns to the New York stage with Avery Pearson stepping into the skin of 16 characters. Peeling back psychological layers to reveal the heart of an individual experience, Monster dissects the true nature of evil.
Tuesday, November 15 @ 9pm

Hamlet (solo)
Performed by Raoul Bhaneja
Directed by Robert Ross Parker
This one man, seventeen character tour de force was developed for over seven years with director Robert Ross Parker (Vampire Cowboys) and in residency at Shakespeare's Globe. Hamlet is distilled down to its essence: the Audience, the Actor, and the Text.
Wednesday, November 16 @ 2pm

Creating Illusion
Performed by Jeff Grow
Directed by Jessi D. Hill
Magician Jeff Grow explores the diverse facets of the art of illusion, whether for entertainment or manipulation, beauty or deception. The tools of the conjurer are seen all around us. Elegant sleight of hand and surreal mind reading mix together to explore the tools of the art of creating illusion.
Wednesday, November 16 @ 4pm

Masquerade: Calypso and Home
Written & Performed by Roger Bonair-Agard
Directed by Kamilah Forbes
Early 1980's Trinidad. Midnight Robber meets Michael Jackson, Soca Music meets first dances and first fights. Sharing poetry, stories and calypso over a bottle of rum, Bonair-Agard weaves living and breathing tapestries out of politics and the notion of home. He tenderly unmasks family secrets, his adolescence in 1980's Trinidad, and life as an immigrant in America.
Wednesday, November 16 @ 7pm

Wanderlust
Written & Performed by Martin Dockery
Directed by Jean-Michele Gregory
A man journeys deep into Africa, trekking from the Atlantic to the Sahara. There he demands an Epiphany. Any epiphany at all. A comic true story.
Wednesday, November 16 @ 9pm

ALL FOR ONE THEATER FESTIVAL presents outstanding solo shows that inform and inspire, together with workshops and panels to enhance the development and appreciation of solo performance. The festival serves as a curated gateway to a network of performing and teaching opportunities that All For One has begun, and will continue, to build.

TERRANOVA COLLECTIVE is a vibrant playground for artists devoted to innovative new and original theatrical works. Our multi-layered development process, solo arts festivals, and productions serve to nurture and liberate New York City.

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