Join us for SOLOFEST 2010 - THE FILLING STATION's 2nd Annual Festival of Solo Works
presents:
SOLOFEST 2010
an annual festival of original solo works
July 9 -18
at
The Filling Station
$10 single tickets/workshops - $50 all inclusive festival pass
CASH or CHECK only
for reservations:
email: solofest2010reservations@gmail.com
or call: (917) 449-9519
SOLOFEST 2010 Schedule .... scroll down for complete show and workshop descriptions
Friday, July 9th
8pm: Vivian Nesbitt “The Bark and the Tree”
Linda Rodeck “Where’s the Living Room?”
Saturday, July 10th
2pm: Tom Schuch “The Whole World is Irish”
Lynn C. Miller “The First Woman”
Diane Chase “Emptiness, Picasso and the Porcupine”
5pm: Jane Lancaster “Our Grace”
Rosemary Keefe “Mabel Dodge Luhan”
8pm: Brian Herrera “I Was the Voice of Democracy”
Linda Rodeck “Where’s the Living Room?”
Sunday, July 11th
2pm: Susi Wolf “Silk Stockings”
Frank Melcori “There Are No Dunkin Donuts in LA”
Penny Sinone “Branches”
5pm: WORKSHOP: Lynn C. Miller “Autobiographical Solo Performance: Nuts and Bolts”
8pm: Kristen Loree “Tribulations of a Lesbian Folk Singer”
Marya Errin Jones “Absolute Brightness”
Thursday, July 15th
7pm: WORKSHOP: Tom Schuch “How to Book Your Solo Show, EVERYWHERE!”
Friday, July 16th
8pm: Kristen Loree “Tribulations of a Lesbian Folk Singer”
Frank Melcori “There Are No Dunkin Donuts in LA”
Penny Sinone “Branches”
Saturday, July 17th
2pm: Susi Wolf “Silk Stockings”
Marya Errin Jones “ Absolute Brightness”
5pm: WORKSHOP: Linda Rodeck "Action Theater Improvisation"
8pm: Vivian Nesbitt “The Bark and the Tree”
Tom Schuch “The Whole World is Irish”
Sunday, July 18th
2pm: Brian Herrera ”I Was the Voice of Democracy”
Lynn C. Miller “The First Woman”
5pm: Jane Lancaster “Our Grace”
Rosemary Keefe ““Mabel Dodge Luhan”
8pm: Open mic and workshop showcase
SHOW DESCRIPTIONS
In 1992, when Vivian set out to research her great-great-grandmother, Mary “Eva” O'Doherty, an Irish Romantic Nationalist poet writing under the name of “Eva of the The Nation” during the Great Famine years of the mid 19th century, she had no idea that the story would take almost two decades to unfold. Her journey to understand Eva's choices, and her strength of character led the author to a deep unexpected transformation of her own.
Linda Rodeck “Where’s the Living Room?”
Enter the world of the solo improviser as she navigates through a landscape of props provided by the audience. Completely improvised, no two shows are ever alike.
Tom Schuch “The Whole World is Irish” Written by Willard Simms
"It’s St. Paddy’s day at Fitzgerald’s Pub, and they’ve booked a guest to sing the praises of all the great Irishmen in history. But there’s something odd about their speaker, who keeps going off on tangents about the tragedies in his own family, telling jokes about Irish drunks, and claiming Samuel Beckett was the worlds funniest writer. Whose side is he on, and how do you get him off the stage?"
Lynn C. Miller “The First Woman”
Description: “The First Woman” is a solo piece about Victoria Woodhull who ran for President in 1872, the first woman in the U.S. to do so. She was also the first woman to address the U.S. Congress, and ran the first woman-owned brokerage firm on Wall Street.
Diane Chase “Emptiness, Picasso and the Porcupine”
This exploration is tied to the creative coordination of various elements such as dreams, meditation, movement, painting and words. When I approached this process,I was inspired by an article on Synectics, a term derived from the Greek word synectikos which means “brining forth together” or “bringing different things into unified connection.” Personally this has to do with activating the creative parts of myself that I have sabotaged in different ways and I am now allowing the mystery to emerge with voice and expression. The classes with Lynn Miller are a great catalyst for this work.
Jane Lancaster “Our Grace”
This dark comedy is set in Manchester, England as Grace grows up in the 1960’s, 70’s and 80’s. Jane presents members of a quirky family from a sex maniac father who calls himself ‘your local boob watcher’, to a singing-obsessed mother ‘who should have been on the stage’, comical chain-smoking grandma and topless model sister. With star struck parents who looked up to film stars like Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor and idolized crooners such as Jack Jones and Frank Sinatra, Grace was expected to be a star. Grace’s journey to ‘find herself’ is a rollercoaster of psychics, religious cults, the ‘wee of nuns’ and more. The bizarre antics she gets into only adds to the hilarity of this dysfunctional and heart-warming family.
Rosemary Keefe “Mabel Dodge Luhan”
Mabel Dodge as part of Chautauqua "living history."
Brian Herrera “I Was the Voice of Democracy”
The true story of a seventeen year old kid who is briefly thrust into a peculiar kind of fame when a speech he writes on a whim ends up winning first place in a national scholarship contest. By turns comedic and contemplative (and told in a style that is equal parts Spalding Gray and David Sedaris), this show asks whether we ever really stop being the person we once were.
Susi Wolf “Silk Stockings”
With original stories and folktales, this whirlwind one-woman show brings tales from many cultures to our Albuquerque audience. Susi Wolf is a dynamic storyteller and enhances her performance with drumming and prose. All stories are meaningful, ranging from funny yarns to clever woman tales to stories that make you ponder. Some tales are original (her adventures as a professional clown encountering gang members.) Some are ancient folktales from all over the world. “Adults Only” due to mature content.
Frank Melcori “There Are No Dunkin Donuts in LA”
There really are no Dunkin Donuts is LA. Harold muses about what that means in the grand scheme of life.
Penny Sinone “Branches”
A story about three people who share a life on the farm until… the barn yard is flooded, a tree is stripped of its branches and one of the characters leaves the farm. Branches is based on a true incident.
Kristen Loree “Tribulations of a Lesbian Folk Singer”
Creator and performer Kristen Loree leads audiences on an intricate journey through folk singer Chik Mann's life story- and through it all is just a woman with her guitar. "Tribulations" explores one lesbian's experience of love, lust, marriage and children. Part storytelling, part live concert, "The Tribulations of a Lesbian Folk Singer" combines wicked humor and heartbreaking candor in a one hour dynamic show.
Marya Errin Jones “Absolute Brightness”
A puppet/physical/hybrid theatre performance about the limitations space, the distance between two very precarious points, and the all-but- forgotten Miss Henrietta Swan Leavitt, one of Harvard Observatory's "human calculators" and the first contemporary astronomer to devise a mathematical equation to measure the vastness of the Universe beyond the Milky Way. Before Hubble, there was Henrietta—
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS
Lynn C. Miller “Autobiographical Solo Performance: Nuts and Bolts”
Explore ways to turn your personal experience into solo performance.
Linda Rodeck "Action Theater Improvisation"
Using movement as the primary driver, participants will learn techniques on how to source their bodies, imaginations, and minds for improvisational content. Through playful and challenging exercises, this embodied form of physical theater improvisation allows actors, artists, writers, musicians, and adventurers to expand their creative pallets. For more information, www.depthimprovisation.com
Ryan Jason Cook performs "Allen" in Solofest 2009
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Past projects at THE FILLING STATION
Mother Road Theatre Co: THE ODYSSEY 2008 Art of the Song Live at The Filling Station: Rahim AlHaj 2009
Church of Beethoven 2008 Mother Road Theatre Co: PREBUT 2008
PROP Theatre Co, Chicago: ON THE ROAD
