About this project
Draw us a sheep.
In the middle of the urban smash, the daily surge of sardine subways and twittering speed, we are artists in Brooklyn collaborating towards the wide visual world of the Little Prinsinn, inspired by Saint-Exupéry's famous fable. For a story so well-known, translated and tattooed, we have a task set before us to do something simply beautifully. But for that, we need support.
We have a tiny budget trying to do magnificent things. Even the littlest components cost money. Wire, tape. Gels for lights. And the big things even more: 70 feet of white muslin. Large sheets of chipboard. Bicycle Pulleys. And even wonderful artists donating their time need to eat while they build asteroid skirts and planet chandeliers.
We are trying to build a beautiful story. It's so expensive. Please help us.
We'll accept your pennies and your gold. Your support and enthusiasm. We'll give you tickets as gratitude, lullaby you with the score, dress you in fine silk-screened t-shirts. We'll have coffee over Skype and discuss horseradish baobabs and sing you courageous songs. For the gilded saviors, we'll build you a planet chandelier or cook you a six part suite of a Prinsinn feast in a Brooklyn Brownstone. But mostly, we hope you will be connected to helping make something extraordinary.
We invite you to dream awake toward a simplicity that is startlingly beautiful and gently sad at the Brooklyn Lyceum from May 11th-21st.
To stop and smell the roses. And have it be the most lovely loss of time you've had since you were a child and could amuse yourself with twinkling laughter for hours over the way the sticks pile upon each other. The way a sunset is totally extraordinary even if it happens everyday.THE LITTLE PRINSINN
for grown-ups who were once children
From Dhira Rauch and Alyssa Ciccarello
Original Score by Naren Rauch.
Planet Chandeliers by Anna Perricci, Pop-up Paintings by Baris Gokturk, Stop Animation by Sarada Rauch, Shadow Puppetry from Andy Benicasa, Costume Sculptures by Brynn Almi and the reintroduction of Dotty, the Opaque Projector.
With Maya Orli Cohen and Michael Deroos. Special Appearance by Megan Schenk, as the lamplighter. And many thanks to Kate Coltun, volcano tender and illumination middler.
Tickets and info at THISISNOTAHAT.com
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MP3 download of the Little Prinsinn Suites by musician Naren Rauch, available after the show opens.
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Limited-edition silk-screened "This Is Not A Hat" t-shirt, hand-made in Brooklyn.
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5"x7" numbered prints of production photography by artist Anna Perricci.
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A Little Prinsinn planet of your very own by artist Anna Perricci, to tend and care for. One of a kind piece.
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Dhira Rauch creates new work using old technology and visual theater. Her work ranges from inflating giant 14-foot hearts with leaf blowers to performing Shakespeare under the Golden Gate Bridge. In the interest of asking the questions with no marks, she has done body research in the wilderness of Iceland, eaten popcorn at 30mph in response to Godot and performed her academic inquiries at conferences. This will be her third May presenting new work at the Brooklyn Lyceum.
Alyssa Ciccarello creates new work and does what she can with the old stuff. She last appeared at the Lyceum in Fallings, a multi-medium collaboration with Rauch last May. She has a BFA from NYU's Experimental Theatre Wing and has worked as a performer and voice teacher in New York and Barcelona since 2003.
Dhira Rauch and Alyssa Ciccarello meet weekly in Brooklyn to practice the practice, rain or shine.
