ENTER A MAN IN A SUIT. THE MAN WILL BE A BORSCHT BELT COMEDIAN, DE KOONING, A WATERY GHOST, A PAINTING, CHRIST/JACK NICHOLSON. ALL LINES ARE HIS. STAGE DIRECTIONS ARE OFTEN SPOKEN. THOSE THAT ARE NOT SPOKEN ARE IN PARENTHESES. ““Dear Painting,” said my teacher, his eyes rimmed red, his breath a crystallized ointment for… Continue reading Mr Akita script excerpt
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The Glass Bang – script excerpt
BYRON and EVAN are lying in bed. Evan is disturbed, Byron dreamy. BYRONBut I didn’t stop talking. I said: ” I would take birds to the mountain top, well, not birds, their effigies. I would never touch the actual material. In the umber night, (GAVIN walks in, takes off jacket, lays at end of the… Continue reading The Glass Bang – script excerpt
See what love the father has given us – script excerpt
RAY(To an Apostle.)Then one day I went walking…I cam upon the Holy Spirit crying on a road. I said, ‘Holy Spirit why do you cry?’ He said. (SMOKE mouthing her words.) ‘Magic is existence, utterly.’ Yes, there are those who are compelled to the Spirit, as the world is like a carcass to them, and… Continue reading See what love the father has given us – script excerpt
Daghlian, Martha, “TBA Report: aggressive whimsy, meditative chaos, kinetic violin,” Oregon Arts Watch, September 17, 2019.
“…reflections of unstable identities locked in a struggle for power, whether magical or political.”
Quick, Genevieve, “In Tackling White Patriarchy ‘The Dope Elf’ Erodes Life-Fiction Boundaries,’ 48 Hills, October 6, 2021.
“As Hartman and the Gawdafful National Theatre uncomfortably and self-reflexively merged the scripted and improvisational, ‘The Dope Elf’ transgressed the boundaries of theatrical space and the unspoken ugliness within us all.”
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Balance
Jasmine Orpilla, performer, composer, singer, and pre-colonial martial artist, plays Chet, a duende, a slayer of hidden folk in one of a six-part short film series about the psychological effects of white supremacy. In interviews, actions, and written text, Orpilla describes the spirit of the times where those who must avenge injustice prepare. Writer, director,… Continue reading Balance
