2010 NOW Festival Week One
NOW Festival 2010: Week One
NOW Festival 2010: Week One
The first week of the Festival harnesses wild-in-the-streets energy to fuel two new works that celebrate the spirit of rebellion and escalate the poltics of power to the level of the operatic.
MAUREEN HUSKEY: THE EXILE OF PETIE DELARGE
Bessie Award-winning director Maureen Huskey teams with artistic producer Elizabeth R. English to lead a collaborative experiment in language and performance, bringing to life Jennifer Barclay’s neo-gothic text The Exile of Petie DeLarge. Exquisitely visual staging and powerfully rhythmic performances drive the darkly funny story of Petie, the expelled leader of a campus coup, and her gang of renegade students in their grim struggle to regain control of the student body.
"[Huskey] provides us with a useful strategy for considering our place in and connections to the world." —Art Journal
KILLSONIC: TONGUES BLOODY TONGUES
The 30-piece musicians’ collective Killsonic plays under the direction of a reanimated Saddam Hussein as they orchestrate the factious history of Iraq in the era of British rule. In a staged processional that features giant floats, ragged costumes and blaring megaphones, this high-energy processional band cries out the history of a land that has been contested for centuries.
"There's nothing like witnessing them for the first time ... Killsonic blows me away." —LA Weekly
NEW ORIGINAL WORKS FESTIVAL 2010
Week One | Week Two | Week Three
The New Original Works Festival is supported by grants from The James Irvine Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Associated Images:
| Date/Time | G | ST | CA |
|---|---|---|---|
| THUR 7/22 8:30 pm | $18 | $14 | $10 |
| FRI 7/23 8:30 pm | $18 | $14 | $10 |
| SAT 7/24 8:30 pm | $18 | $14 | $10 |
G - General Audience
M - REDCAT Members
ST - Students
CA - CalArts Students/Faculty/Staff
