About this project
'Sundowning' is often experienced by people with dementia or Alzheimer's. This syndrome causes agitation and hallucinations during the daily cycle, especially as the evening approaches.
Our group of artists, from the theater, music and writing programs at the California Institute of the Arts, has been exploring aging, mental health and dementia. We are creating a script for workshopping in May and will then spend June and July refining, rehearsing and preparing to tour the show for its August premier at the Edinburgh Fringe, as part of the largest arts festival in the world.
"At Sundown" is the story of the end of our lives told in our youth. A collectively imagined autobiography about the unraveling of memory. A joyous physical theater collage about clinging to the past and letting it go.
From the same company that brought “I like it to be a play every afternoon” to the Fringe in 2009:
“...evoke[s] complex psychologies, acute social mores, and distinctive relationships in fragments of drama, music and movement...an hour spent in good company.” - Three Weeks,
“gentle satire with imaginative, sharp, intuitive performances by Jenny Greer and Sallie Merkel.” - EdinburghGuide.com
We are raising money to cover travel for our six company members traveling to Edinburgh.
Thanks for your support!
Ian Garrett
E. M. Gimenez
Jenny Greer
Henry Hoke
Jacob Loeb
Sallie Merkel
Zoe Aja Moore
Ellen Reid
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This project successfully raised its funding goal on May 30, 2010.
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A thank you postcard from Edinburgh from the whole company, mention in the program and on the website, updates, and access to development content. And a complimentary ticket to the show in Edinburgh.
Pledge $20 or more
Above, a digital copy of our working script, a one-of-a-kind actual polaroid memory of us from Edinburgh.
Pledge $50 or more
Above, a signed copy of the show poster from the Edinburgh Fringe, a CD of the original music from the show, and a video thank you from all of as atop Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh!
Pledge $100 or more
Above, a DVD of the final Fringe production and an "At Sundown" Fringe 2010, company t-shirt.
Pledge $500 or more
Above, A wool scarf with your choice of Tartan from Scotland and a traditional souvenir of scottish culture: either a bottle of single cask malt whisky of your choice from a selection of currently available unfiltered/undiluted offerings from the Scottish Malt Whisky Society or Handmade Laura West, Nomad Coptic Blank Book.
Pledge $2,000 or more
Above, and a one-of-a-kind handmade Fair Isle knit sweater in traditional colors of your choosing but a local traditional craftsperson (this will take some time to get done, so please be patient)
Pledge $5,000 or more
Above, and we'll fly you to Edinburgh and put you up for a weekend to see the show!
Pledge $5 or more
A thank you postcard from Edinburgh from the whole company, mention in the program and on the website, updates, and access to development content. And a complimentary ticket to the show in Edinburgh.
Pledge $20 or more
Above, a digital copy of our working script, a one-of-a-kind actual polaroid memory of us from Edinburgh.
Pledge $50 or more
Above, a signed copy of the show poster from the Edinburgh Fringe, a CD of the original music from the show, and a video thank you from all of as atop Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh!
Pledge $100 or more
Above, a DVD of the final Fringe production and an "At Sundown" Fringe 2010, company t-shirt.
Pledge $500 or more
Above, A wool scarf with your choice of Tartan from Scotland and a traditional souvenir of scottish culture: either a bottle of single cask malt whisky of your choice from a selection of currently available unfiltered/undiluted offerings from the Scottish Malt Whisky Society or Handmade Laura West, Nomad Coptic Blank Book.
Pledge $2,000 or more
Above, and a one-of-a-kind handmade Fair Isle knit sweater in traditional colors of your choosing but a local traditional craftsperson (this will take some time to get done, so please be patient)
Pledge $5,000 or more
Above, and we'll fly you to Edinburgh and put you up for a weekend to see the show!
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Ian Garrett is a Los Angeles based Producer and Designer. His current projects are "At Sundown" and "The Car Show.
AT SUNDOWN is a work created with the assembled emerging talents of E. M. Gimenez, Jenny Greer, Henry Perkins, Jacob Loeb, Sallie Merkel, Zoe Aja Moore, Ellen Reid. This team of artists is currently hard at work on preparing "At Sundown" for a Los Angeles Workshop and World Premier at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
THE CAR SHOW is a new play/car wash hybrid written and directed by Christopher Cole, appearing in a parking lot in Los Angeles this summer!
