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Support Toy Box Theatre Company to expand to a two-show season, starting with David Caudle's The Short Fall
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on October 18, 2010
The Operating Theater
Posted project update #11TRANSATLANTICA has been EXTENDED!
Post CommentThanks to all the positive feed back from our audiences:
- "Daring, bold, outrageous! Surprises at every turn and plenty of food for thought."
- "This excellent production taps into both the humor and sadness in Finkle's play. I found it laugh-out-loud funny and more than a little heart-wrenching"
- " imaginative, subversive, and ahead of its time."
- "A cult-hit in the making!!"
There are only three more chances to see it:
Thursday, October 21,
Friday October 22, and
Saturday October 23,
7:30pm curtain timeWhere is Transatlantica.com
DON'T MISS it!
** This production could not have been made possible without your generous support. So thank you, truly, from the bottom of our hearts! ** -
on October 6, 2010
The Operating Theater
Posted project update #10Photos from Transatlantica
Post CommentHope you enjoy these photos. If you haven't already visited us, we'd love to see you this weekend. Thursday - Saturday at 7:30pm Sunday at 2:30pm.
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on October 3, 2010
The Operating Theater
Posted project update #9Special Event Today
Post CommentWHAT: Psychiatrist, Dr Heather Lewerenz Ph.D. and Playwright Kenny Finkle will participate in
a panel discussion on Art, Comedy and the Denial of Death, after a special performance of Finkle’s comedy play Transatlantica. Members of the Death-Care industry receive discounted admission by contacting producer Dori Ann Scagnelli. 917-834-3180.WHEN: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3rd, 2:30 PM
WHERE: Fourth Street Theatre, 83 East 4th Street, East Village
MORE: Dr Heather Lewerenz M.D. is a licensed psychiatrist with a private practice in New York
City; formerly an attending physician and associate director of the psychiatric emergency room at
Bellevue Hospital; as well as former chief resident at Beth Israel Medical Center. She holds a degree from University of Kansas Medical Center.Kenny Finkle (playwright) is the author of Alive and Well, which had its world premiere this year at
the Old Globe in San Diego. His play Indoor/Outdoor was produced off-Broadway by Daryl Roth.
Penelope, of Ithaca, produced by the Hangar Theatre in July, was recipient of a New York State
Council on the Arts grant. His work has been seen at Playwrights Horizons, Williamstown Theatre
Festival, Portland Stage and the Atlantic Theatre Company, among others. He has received
commissions from Ford's Theatre, Virginia Stage Company and Theatreworks USA. He is the
recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship and the University of Illinois’ Inner
Voices prize. He is a graduate of Columbia University’s MFA Playwriting program and New York
University’s Tisch School of the Arts.Transatlantica will run at the Fourth Street Theatre, 83 East Fourth Street, New York, NY 10003.
Press Preview is September 30 at 7:30 PM. Performances run Oct 1-17 Thurs–Saturdays at 7:30pm, Sundays at 2:30pm. For general reservations visit www.WhereisTransatlantica.com or call 800-838-3006. -
on October 3, 2010
The Operating Theater
Posted project update #8Our first review
Post CommentThanks to everyone on Kickstarter for helping make the show possible.
http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php...nytheatre.com review
Danny Bowes · October 1, 2010
It's hard to adequately praise a show as good as Transatlantica, because running down a list of all the things that are entertaining and brilliant about it spoil the surprise of discovery, and part of the sheer joy of experiencing this show is not having any idea what's coming next. It's only minor hyperbole to say that Transatlantica has everything that is good and true about theatre (genius dialogue, characters randomly breaking into song, melodramatic deaths, sword fights, etc). It is, simply, the best show I've seen this year.
Kenny Finkle's script satirizes just about every conceivable convention of theatre, and is impossible to pin down into any convenient categorization. The plot is less a narrative than a joke on plot, plunking a group of wondrously odd characters in the drawing room of a well-to-do psychiatrist (if he indeed even is one) and turning them loose. The script is brimming with allusions to this and that, wordplay for wordplay's sake, and some truly magnificent bad jokes (including one that defies any other description than "turning the major works of Chekhov into an orgy"). It is an ambitious script, and massive. Director Jason Schuler does an extraordinary job of making this potentially unwieldy thing seem effortless; the pace is just brisk enough that the energy never flags, but not so fast that the audience misses anything.
Of course, great writing and directing will only get a show so far. Ultimately you need actors, and this cast delivers with style. From Anna Foss Wilson's demi-operatic (literal) femme fatale to Keith Chandler's flamboyantly melancholy narcissist theatre director (are there any other kinds, really?) to Tim Donovan Jr's beleaguered "straight" man to Evelyn Sullivan's flame-haired stranger from another land to Pierre-Marc Diennet's insane police inspector to Eben Moore's turn as the thoughtless egomaniac with whom literally every other character in the play is either in love or erotically fascinated, the cast functions as one energetic, perfectly aligned unit. Each, in his or her own way, is a delight to watch, and together they sing (at times literally).
Visually, Transatlantica is stunningly hallucinatory. Mathieu Lorain Dignard does not actually appear on stage, but is responsible for several hilarious sight gags; this will make sense when you see the show, which you should. The set, by designer Gian Marco Lo Forte and scenic artist Carolyn Bonnani, is packed with dozens of tiny, subtle details, each of which adds to the overall atmosphere and tone of the show. Jennifer Paar's costumes are flamboyant, hilarious, and do as much to evoke character as the supremely talented writer, director, and cast. The small handful of musical numbers are not only funny but give the cast a chance to display surprising deftness with some truly odd instruments.
If the suggestion that you should see Transatlantica at your first possible convenience has, so far, been too subtle, let there be no mistake: catch this show at some point in its run. At least five things will blow your mind, and at least five other things will make you laugh harder than you've laughed in living memory. Transatlantica is delightful on every possible level, and is a reminder of what theatre can and should be: a work of great artistic merit that is also fantastically entertaining.
The Operating Theater
Brooklyn, NY
The Operating Theater’s past productions include: The Garden of Forked Tongues ("The Year According to Papermag: The Best of the Best... 2009"), Van Driver (two productions at Cherry Lane's Cherry Pit Late Night), The Present Perfect (NYIT Award Winner: Excellence in Lighting Design; Nominee: Excellence in Set Design, 2007).
