We had an incredible experience with John. He played the week before in our show as a puppeteer and couldn’t wait to come back. This time, we experimented with creating a story based around a real person in history - Nelda K Balch. John played “Ned” in this amazing biography.
Dave has experience in improvisation and interactive theatre (art.party.theatre.company), so he was a strong co-creator throughout, but he’s never experienced anything quite like Playing With Reality. Dave talks about his experience and the potential of the work.
Properties of Play continues this Monday, April 25 at 7:30pm.
This time around, two new cast members are stepping into the show.
Monday’s cast:
Carolyn McCandlish
Jenn Kent
Julio Peña
Mateo Prendergast
Sarah-Doe Osborne
Canal Park Playhouse
(508 Canal Street, between Greenwich & Washington Streets, New York, NY 10013)
Tickets: $10 ($10! Cheaper than a movie ticket!)
We’ll play 3 stories, so 3 audience members get the opportunity to play as the star of the show. Come to take advantage of the possibilities, or sit back and enjoy what others choose to do.
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We’ve had several spect-actors come play that consider themselves writers. They tend to get a kick out of the storytelling potential, so we figured it only natural to create a method that allows writers to add a tool to their craft, us.
If a writer’s feeling stumped in any area of creation, we offer another view to the story, developing characters, relationships and plot in real time.
“As a playwright, I found being a spect-actor with Playing With Reality to be super-inspirational. The way the company’s actors not only improvise whole stories on the fly, but also prod their spect-actors to do the same, and even to be largely in control of those stories, completely impressed me and made me anxious to go home and write. I think the form, part creation and part performance, is more than entertaining — it would be a help to any playwright or actor.”
- Jack Karp
Amy has played in a couple of our stories. This time she got the chance to play with live music in the background, which was reacting the mood of the scenes, almost as another inter-actor. Here she tells of the experience.
Kim & Zack were adventurous to let us experiment (for the second time) with more than one spect-actor in a story. It was a blast and we learned a lot. They talk about the ups and downs of the experience.
Another exciting show this Monday, the 14th, at 7:30pm!
Canal Park Playhouse
(508 Canal Street, between Greenwich & Washington Streets, New York, NY 10013)
Tickets: $10 ($10! Cheaper than a movie ticket!)
We’ll play 3 stories, so 3 audience members get the opportunity to play as the star of the show. Come to take advantage of the possibilities, or sit back and enjoy what others choose to do.
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http://www.canalparkplayhouse.com/
