Josh Fox (PP06) and his company, International Wow May 6-23 at the Ohio –
RECONSTRUCTION memorializes the OHIO Theater’s pending closure in August. The production focuses on the foreclosure crisis in both the housing and cultural spheres. The production highlights the debacle facing the OHIO Theater and many of New York’s most valued cultural institutions, featuring scene after scene of foreclosure, including one where a theater company, performing the Cherry Orchard is kicked out of it’s theatrical home.
Eric Bland (PP09) and his company Old Kent Road Theater at Bushwick Star May 13-22 –
Our 22 minute piece is a ‘contemporary ecstasy’ called ‘Are We Bourgeois, Mon Amour (A Psycho’s Analysis).’ I call our piece a ‘contemporary ecstasy’ because that is what we are after—the nodes of despair and apotheosis within the ways we live today as New Yorkers. We hope to use the comedies of desire, philosophy, and physicality to discuss and dispel the notion that our age is post-ideological, post-historical, post-vital.
