Author: Dan O’Neil
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Nice Fish If You Can Catch It
Nice Fish, by Mark Rylance and Louis Jenkins, currently playing at St. Ann’s Warehouse through March 27th, takes this activity that most of us have never engaged in and makes it – at least for me – totally, nostalgically, tragically familiar.
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Due to Events: Existential Squirreliness
Human Head Performance Group’s Due to Events, a curious collection of play pieces that have been constructed by Jean Ann Douglass and Eric John Meyer into a performance that runs through February 27th at The Brick, embraces a squirrely sense of logic that creates an atmosphere in which almost anything can happen, and yet almost…
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A Response to Versailles 2016 Via a Joke About a Polar Bear
Dan O’Neil reimagines a joke he once heard to the tune of VERSAILLES 2016, a ‘play within a party’ by This is Not a Theatre Company
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Open Spectrum – February 13 at New York Live Arts
On Monday night, New York Live Arts kicked off the 2016 Live Ideas festival, MENA/Future, which is devoted to a generation of artists whose creative networks across socio-political divides reveal a diverse and future-oriented vision for the Middle East North African region. I was in attendance for the opening event, described as ‘An Evening With…
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On the Art of the Immersive, or Is This Even Theater?
Dan O’Neil reflects on immersive theater making via a response to THE GRAND PARADISE
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On The Offending Gesture, or what means ‘work’?
A response to The Offending Gesture by Mac Wellman and what makes something ‘work.’
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MDLSX, as a site of radical recomposition
Today’s revolution, soon to be rendered in strobe-washed detail by the performance group Motus at La MaMa
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On the First Person Narrator & ABYSS – a response
Dan O’Neil responds to ‘Abyss’ and its use of a prominent first-person narrator
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New Ways to Talk About the ‘Work’ – a course-driven response to ANIMALS
An exploration of the ‘course-driven’ theater structure via CHASE – WHAT MATTERS MOST at Dixon Place
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Forgetting, Remembering, Forgetting Again – a dialogue on watching via ‘tiger tiger’
Dan O’Neil and Jennifer Cayer attended ‘tiger tiger (on the nature of violence)’ at Dixon Place on separate nights. Then they wrote this.
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Collaging Meets Social Media – a response to ‘fawnbook’
In Ayun Halliday’s new play, all dialogue is culled from social media.
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BOSSS – an essay on the site-specific and one person’s contemplation of realness
An essay response to the Big Outdoor Site-Specific Stuff Festival (Oct. 23-25, 2015)