ABOUT IMAGINING THE IMAGINARY INVALID

Using Molière’s seminal play, The Imaginary Invalid, as its backdrop, Imagining the Imaginary Invalid takes you backstage behind the curtain. This 17th century French classic, Molière's three-act comédie-ballet, is offered as a play in three realities: Argan and characters within the play The Imaginary Invalid; Moliere and the Illustrious Theatre Company in rehearsals for The Imaginary Invalid; and a contemporary theatre ensemble (Mabou Mines circa 1970’s and Trick Saddle today). The play grapples with the medical industry, art making, the nature of inspiration and how to carry on in the wake of the loss of its leading player.

ABOUT WICKETS

Set inside an airplane, eight 1970’s stewardesses find themselves split between the private self and the public persona in this radical adaptation of Maria Irene Fornes’ Fefu and Her Friends. The entire theater becomes the stage for this celestial rock opera where the audience is surrounded by high-flying action that takes place all around them--in the aisles, galleys and lavatories of a trans-Atlantic flight.  

ABOUT TRICK SADDLE

With a synchronized underwater cowboy ballet as its cinematic backdrop, Trick Saddle presents a posse of women in pursuit of cowboy mythology.   Armed with grit and unerring wit, these trick riders turn the cowboy legend inside out and upside down through music, song, dance, dialogue, video, and of course, trick saddle routines.  Gender is a trick - it’s the saddle you wear and the saddle you ride. Ride on. 

ABOUT THE DEAD

Commissioned by New York Theater Ballet, The Dead transforms James Joyce’s short story into a theatrical ballet.  On the eve of the Feast of the Epiphany, this dynamic cast of classic Irish characters is swept into a fated evening of winter party going. This poetic interpretation contrasts comedic moments with reflections upon true love lost set against flurries of fallen snow and the cold night air.

ABOUT CHOEPHORAE

The play, CHOEPHORAE, a modern production of Aeschylus’ The Libation Bearers, (“Choephorae” in ancient Greek), features an all female cast, playing male & female roles throughout the play, in an international collaboration between a U.S and Greek company, which opened the Patras Festival in Patras, Greece, the Cultural Capital of Europe for 2006.  Staged as a choral work of performance poetry, the play fuses elements of stylized acting, choreography, conceptual design, music and sound.