About this project
Devised by The LIDA Project with directors Robin Davies, Brian Freeland, Josh Hartwell, Jaime Lujan, Brenda Cook Ritenour, Kate Roselle, Tommy Sheridan, and Kenny Storms .
In October The LIDA | Project
ambitiously devised a six-part interconnected epic on health, care,
mortality, and dying in the United States. Six vastly different plays were
created in collaboration with The LIDA Project’s actors, community leaders, and
six guest Directors from the Denver local theatre community. To aid in the development of a more intimate and
communal experience the work was
environmentally designed to be performed in private residences with limited
seating for a small audience. In
December 2011 we presented 18 performance in 18 different centrally located
living rooms in the span of 9 days.
Because of an overwhelming
interest from gracious community members wanting to host a continued performances and the artists desire to further
develop the pieces, a continued life for the project is underway. We would like to continue to offer this piece as a unique theatrical dialogue on one of the most heated social topics. As this response to the work was unexpected we are now starting this Kickstarter to ensure we can continue to offer this unique experience.
Below you will find further information about the “Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep” and The LIDA Project.
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Description of Pieces
The Soldier
Directed by Tommy
Sheridan with performances by Rhea Amos, Hart DeRose, Nancy Flanagan,
Michelle Hurtubise, Madeleine Joyce, Heidi Pachner, Stefin Woolever, and
Ryan Wuestewald.
The Soldier maneuvers through a recent Iraq War veterans struggles to care for herself and her relationships while her PTSD and grief from the war spin into a sadistic health insurance game show.
The Addict
Directed by Kate Roselle and Kenny Storms
performances by Nancy Flanagan, Madeleine Joyce, Deanna Lowman, Heidi
Pachner, Lorenzo Sariñana, and Stefin Woolever.
The Addict is a cyclical spiral of losing control and asking for help. It grapples with both tangible and systemic addictions and whether or not we have the agency to choose our own paths.
The Survivor
Directed by
Jaime Lujan with performances by Rhea Amos, Hart DeRose, Michelle
Hurtubise, Madeleine Joyce, Lorenzo Sariñana, and Ryan Wuestewald.
An exploration of how we grapple with death both losing those we love and dealing with the knowledge of our own.
The MiddlemanDirected by Robin Davies with performances by Rhea Amos, Hart DeRose, Michelle Hurtubise, Heidi Pachner, and Ryan Wuestewald.
An examination of the difficult choices that individuals have to make on health + care in a world of 7 billion people.
The Immigrant
Directed by Brenda Cook Ritenour with performances by Hart DeRose, Michelle Hurtubise, Deanna Lowman, and Lorenzo Sariñana.
An exploration of alternative medicine, cultural assimilation, and the red tape beauracracy hoops we have to jump through.
The Patient
Directed by Josh Hartwell with performances by Nancy Flanagan,
Madeleine Joyce, Deanna Lowman, Heidi Pachner, and Stefin Woolever.
The Patient is a poetic and lyrical exploration of the ins outs ups downs of a person’s final moments and how hospice and its workers provide support to that person and their relatives. “What’s more important than our final moment,” one patient asks. Death responds, “Them.”
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This project successfully raised its funding goal on January 30.
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All of the above and admittance to a limited special showing of all 6 pieces 'Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep', dinner and a signed framed poster.
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All of the above and a limited bound copy of the 6 part meditation of 'Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep.'
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The LIDA Project is a meta-media art collective with a strong emphasis on live performance. Our goal is to present works that experiment and challenge the structure and presentation of performance while strengthening culture, community, and artistic growth. Working as a collaborative group of artists The LIDA Project intends to promote and present works of the highest integrity and expressiveness without yielding to conventional presentation and stereotypes.
