We are so very pleased to report that Paul Cohen won the 2008 FringeNYC Overall Excellence Award for Outstanding Playwrighting for Mourn the Living Hector!
Thanks to all who came out to see Paul’s great new play at the Fringe Festival. Your attendance and support made the whole enchilada of the ‘08 Fringe worthwhile.
If you missed your chance to see Mourn the Living Hector, be sure to check out our great reviews from The New York Times, The Village Voice and Time Out.
Stay tuned for more exciting projects from PL115, including
- Our co-production of a new play by Ashlin Halfnight with our friends at Electric Pear, coming up in the Spring of 2009
- Caucasian Chalk Circle version 2.0, which will be re-constituted, re-constructed, and entirely re-imagined for a July 2009 appearance at The Chocolate Factory in Long Island City, NY
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As always, we rely on your ongoing support to make our productions come to life. If you have the desire and means to help PL115, please consider making a tax deductible donation.
And if money’s not so much your thing but you’d like to donate some of your time, get in touch with us! We have many, many ways to put creative people like you to work!
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We are pleased to report that Time Out New York has selected Mourn the Living Hector as a Critics Pick for this year’s New York International Fringe Festival, recommended our show on their home page, and given it a four star review!
You can read the complete review on Time Out NY Online.
Also, be sure to check out the great press we’ve gotten from NYTheatre.com.
UPDATE: Anita Gates of The New York Times just called Mourn the Living Hector ‘beautifully acted and elegantly written.’ Check out the full review in the NYTimes Theater section!
We’ve only got 3 shows left and tickets are selling out, so if you haven’t gotten a chance to see this great new play be sure to get your tickets today!
plays:
MON 8/18 @ 7:30
THUR 8/21 @ 5:00
SAT 8/23 @ 9:30
at the Flamboyan Theatre (CSV Cultural Center)
107 Suffolk Street
(Rivington & Delancey Streets) [view map]
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PL115 has been fortunate enough to get a couple of of pre-Fringe publicity teasers for Mourn the Living Hector!
- On July 27th, we recorded a 5 minute mini-performance and interview on NYTheatre’s FringeNYC Preview Podcast. Listen to the podcast here
- Just yesterday, Mourn the Living Hector was included in The Voice’s Fringe preview article with one of our press photos thrown in above the fold!
- Yahoo’s Broadway Blog Two on the Aisle used one of our press photos as the lead image for their 2008 FringeNYC pre-Festival coverage.
Check them out!
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You can get your tickets for Paul Cohen’s amazing new play at:
www.ticketweb.com
Seating is incredibly limited at the Flamboyan, so please get your tickets today!
Click here for more info!
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Performance Lab 115 is once again braving the steamy summer in NYC to make experimental actor-driven theatre and we need YOUR help to make it.
We are currently producing two new shows:
The Terrible Temptation to do Good
A Brechtian Lounge Act
July 18-20th @ the Underground Zero Festival
AND
Mourn the Living Hector
by Paul Cohen
August 8-24th @ FringeNYC 2008
We need to raise $1,500.00 in the next month to pay for rehearsal space, sets, lights and of course actors. Even a small donation of $5-10 helps us immensely. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation today.
Thanks for your help!
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PL115 presents Paul Cohen’s Mourn the Living Hector as part of the New York International Fringe Festival.
Winners of two FringeNYC Excellence Awards, PL115 returns to investigate wartime violence on the home front, linking the Trojan hero’s last day with the home-leave of an American Marine; a comedic tragedy of ambient violence, failed connections, and unexpected happy-endings.
Mourn the Living Hector
DATES:
THUR 8/14 @ 9:45
SAT 8/16 @ 2:45
MON 8/18 @ 7:30
THUR 8/21 @ 5:00
SAT 8/23 @ 9:3
AT: The Flamboyan Theatre (CSV Cultural Center)
107 Suffolk Street
(Rivington & Delancey Streets) [view map]
SUBWAY: F train to Delancey Street /
J, M to Essex Street
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Performance Lab 115 presents The Terrible Temptation to Do Good: A Brechtian Loung Act.
Come see the musical stylings of Performance Lab 115 as we continue to explore the material of Bertolt Brecht’s Caucasian Chalk Circle following our six month residency with Mabou Mines. Interweaving found text, original music and inspirations from CCC, PL115 invites you to sip a cocktail and enjoy Brecht’s rebuttal to the Broadway musical.
Presented as part of the 2008 Collective:Unconscious undergroundzero Festival, 2008.
The Terrible Temptation to Do Good:
A Brechtian Lounge Act
July 18 & 19 @ 9PM
July 20 @ 5PM
at Grace Bar
114 Franklin Street, NYC 10013 (view map)
Purchase tickets at www.weird.org
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PL115 is in the New York International Fringe Festival again!
We’re pleased to announce that Paul Cohen’s (Heist, Cherubina) Mourn the Living Hector has been accepted to the FringeNYC festival, 2008. Dates, location and cast are pending. Stay tuned!
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Performance Lab 115 is pleased to report that, following our successful workshop of Caucasian Chalk Circle at Mabou Mines in March, we have been invited to perform the fully developed production at The Chocolate Factory in June of 2009. Thanks much to Brian Rogers and the Chocolate Factory staff for their interest and support.
More details to follow!
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With mentorship, space, and funding from the Mabou Mines/SUITE Resident Artist Program, Performance Lab 115 has spent the last five months using their unique actor-driven process to forge a new visceral translation of Bertolt Brecht’s epic tale of war and responsibility.
In our stripped down, decidedly 21st century interpretation, two clowns invite us into the story where Grushe and Azdak play out their choices on a blasted post-war landscape strewn with the relics of an analog age.
PL115 Presents:
Caucasian Chalk Circle
By Bertolt Brecht
adapted and translated by Ramona Thomasius
Sunday March 23 7:30pm
Monday March 24 7:30pm
Tuesday March 25 7:30pm
@ the Mabou Mines ToRoNaDa space
150 First Avenue (corner of 9th St.)
2nd Floor
(view map)
ALL PERFORMANCES ARE FREE!
Seating is extremely limited and reservations are HIGHLY recommended. For reservations please call 212-473-1991 or e-mail info@pl115.org.
Find out more about Caucasian Chalk Circle
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