Things are hopping at The Public! Tons o’ great stuff playing now and coming up. Culturebot definitely recommends The Brothers Size, which is a co-production with The Foundry.  We saw it as a workshop a while back and then it was a big hit at Under The Radar last year.  The website describes it thusly:

“Playing fast and loose with West African myths, The Brothers Size brings contemporary rhythms together with traditions of ceremonial presentation to tell the modern-day story of the Size brothers – Ogun, an auto mechanic, and Oshoosi, a recent parolee.”

Pretty accurate, for marketing copy. Check it out.

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This weekend at The Brick, Pig Iron and Cynthia Hopkins are collaborating on a presentation for The Public’s year-long presentation of  Suzan-Lori Parks’ 365 Days Plays. Its November 2 @ 7PM and November 3 @ 7PM & 9:30PM.

Don’t know much more about it. But it sounds cool and its free.

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tonight is opening night of choreographer Kristyna Lhotáková and director  Ladislav Soukup’s Beethoven Live at PS122. these czech artists create a unique documentary dance-theatre working with non-dancers, “real people,” as inspiration. in this show they’re working with four american performers in their twenties.

culturebot saw their performance entitled featured when he was at the noorderzon festival a few years back. that show, which  had three men in their fifties.

the work is really interesting, often funny and sometimes touching. check  it out.

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Our pals at Theater of the Two Headed Calf opened their new show Drums of the Waves of Horikawa at HERE tonight.

We saw a bit of it back in January and we think its going to be great. It is also part of the Japan Society’s Turning Japanese celebration!

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So I was surfing the help-wanted ads in the UK Guardian (huh?) and I found an advert for a post that came with an “attractive package”….Apparently the RSC is looking for a new commercial director.  Here’s what the ad says:

The RSC is one of the country’s leading arts organisations and one of very few international brands in the arts. A national theatre company, supported by Arts Council England, the RSC is based in Stratford-upon-Avon and produces regular seasons in London, an annual residency in Newcastle upon Tyne, and tours extensively in the UK and overseas. The Company has reasserted its commitment to ensemble theatre making and the training and development of actors.

The Commercial Director is leaving to become Executive Director of the Royal Court Theatre. The challenge for her successor will be to lead a team of 75 to:-

•    maximise the earned income potential of the RSC in support of the artistic vision
•    develop the widest possible audience for the RSC’s work
•    strategically manage the RSC’s brand and take it into new markets
•    join the team that will open the new Royal Shakespeare Theatre in 2010

Candidates should have demonstrable commercial acumen, a strong commitment to the RSC’s brand values and an understanding of how to apply them to the range of its activities. Functional expertise should include audience development, budgeting and pricing. Experience in the arts would be welcome but specific sector experience is less important than the ability to operate at a senior level in a creative environment. Personal qualities should include flair, imagination, energy, charm and humour.

Are there any C-Level Execs reading Culturebot? Good luck!  For more info check out the ad here.

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Interesting timing! Running concurrently with the Globesity Festival is LightBox‘s Food Theater Project at 3LD (80 Greenwich Street just below Rector). All shows are at 7:30pm.

From the email we received:

The Food Theater Project includes both Milk-N-Honey, a new multimedia play about the politics and pleasures of eating, and the After Show Café, where you can enjoy complimentary coffee and cupcakes, and nightly special events.

“At the heart of the Food Theater Project is Milk-n-Honey, a multimedia theatrical performance about Americans, food, appetite, and happiness. Part documentary, part fiction, Milk and Honey examines how a diverse array of Americans make choices about the food they eat, and how those choices affect their lives and the world around them. The Food Theater Project performance celebrates the beauty and sensuality of food, and at the same time questions our ability, as Americans, to really savor it.”

MILK-N-HONEY runs from October 21–November 18, 2007. Opening night is October 27th.

Plan to stay after the performance, when the theater becomes the After Show Café—where the Lower Eastside Girls Club is serving FREE cupcakes and Fair Trade coffee! The Café is a unique opportunity to engage with authors, activists, farmers, and chefs, and to take action to change our food system!

Some highlights of the After Show Café:

Saturday, October 27th: OPENING NIGHT COOKIE CONTEST. You be the judge. Bring your sweet tooth!

Monday, October 29th: Author Steve Ettlinger dissects one of America’s favorite treats with his new book, Twinkie: Deconstructed

Friday, November 16th: Ben & Jerry’s and Greyston Bakery share their humanitarian projects (and delicious brownies) with us!

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Penny Arcade has organized The Globesity Festival, which opened last night and runs through October 28. It is at the Theater for the New City and it is FREE  for everyone.  There are performances, panels and more. PLUS all the artists are, apparently, required to go on a juice fast for the festival! Should be interesting.

According to the website:

“GLOBESITY is the over consumption of all natural elements that create and sustain life on Earth – some of the most vital and visible being water, minerals, oil, and FOOD. Our approach to food and sustenance is destroying our personal and social health. Our Earth and our Bodies cannot sustain the beastly grind of consumption. This beast is Globesity. It has been named. Now is the hour of confrontation.

The GLOBESITY FESTIVAL is razor sharp performance, comedy, education, celebration and collaboration. With Theatre as our laboratory, we are cooking & cutting up ingredients for SOLUTIONS.

All participating artists will engage in a juice fast, during which they will conceive a theatrical performance in response to consumerism. Then, they will develop these conceptions to be premiered at the festival.”

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This thursday at PS122 you can see the opening Sennichimae Blue Sky Dance Club’s A Bowl of Summer. It is part of the Japan Society’s 100th anniversary celebration. They’re crazy butoh-rebels and it should be a lot of fun.

Then on the 21st composer John Moran brings his new work, “What if Saori Had A Party” to PS122′s downstairs space. The show explores the back-and-forth relationship between American and Japanese culture – in the form of an abstracted Japanese children’s show: something like Teletubbies on acid.

Good times.

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On Saturday night we went to see Maggie Smith’s Good Heif, directed by our pal Sarah Cameron Sunde and presented by New Georges at The Ohio. It is “a peculiar fable set in a hot, dry landscape” about a boy coming of age in a rough, primitive world. It is a quirky, darkly humorous show.Without going into too much detail let’s just say that the title of the show refers to advice the boy receives on how to deal with his prominently-featured tumescence. Moo! And you thought your adolescence was rough! You should see what this poor kid named “Lad” has to go through!

The show runs Weds-Mon through October 27th; Mondays are pay-what-you-will.

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This just in:

“If you’ve ever performed or attended a performance by AUNTS or Chez Bushwick’s Ambush or Shtudio Series I’d love to hear descriptions of your experiences. Pictures (jpegs) that include the audience would be great too. I’m writing a paper about them that will be presented at a conference at NYU.”

Please respond to triois90318@mypacks.net

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