EP 11: Napoleon Bowling

3S Artspace and Fort Point Theatre Channel

present

EXCLAMATION POINT! 11

Napoleon Bowling

Two Evenings of Anachronistic Events 

 

FILM – THEATRE – MUSIC – BURLESQUE – IMPROV - BATTLES

Thursday, September 6, 6 pm 

Currier Museum of Art

Manchester, NH

Friday, September 7, 8 pm

10 Channel Center Street

Fort Point, Boston

FREE, donation requested

Curated by John Gayle and Silvia Graziano 

Click here to view photos by Daniel J. van Ackere

Featuring:

• The Royal Institute for the Support and Healing of the Arts, presented by Blue Spruce Theatre, music and lyrics by David Reiffel, and book by Silvia Graziano. Directed by Jesse Strachman, music directed by Dan Rodriguez, and choreography by Kira Cowan. Featuring David Carney, Ian Flynn, Marie McCarville-Robinson, and Jackie Theoharis

• Bill and Ted’s Improv and Burlesque, by Mary Widow & Kevin Harrington

• Ancestors, a 16 mm film transferred to video by Douglas Urbank

• Time Battle, hosted by John Herman

• Foundation of a Movie, a film by Amy R. Handler

• Future Boyfriend, by A. Vincent Ularich with Danny Bryck, directed by Anna Trachtman, featuring Hallie Friedman and Alex Roy. (This is an except from the play Love in the Time of Time Travel, by Ularich and Bryck. If you enjoy Future Boyfriend and would like to find more information on future projects by this playwright go to www.sciencefictiontheatercompany.com to request updates on future shows.)

• Time Out: A Burlesque, by UnAmerika’s Sweetheart Karin Webb (9/6 only)

• Malden Hairdos, a film by Jonathan Sahula

and

• Music by SchoolTree

Exclamation Point! 10: FILMSTOCK

Curated by Mark Warhol

FREE!
10 Channel Center Street
Fort Point

July 6 & 7, 2012

The tenth Exclamation Point! featured works by Fort Point residents, artists, and friends inspired by film. We included several genres, from films old and new, shorts, silent and musical works to theatre and animations.

The program featured the premiere of the animated fairy tale Où est Fleuri Rose? that follows the adventures of a pink teddy bear in Quebec, set to the music of Mark Warhol with the artistry of animators Nick Thorkelson and Amy MacDonald. Click the screen below to view this.

Additionally, we featured the experimental work of Pelle Lowe. Earthly Possessions is a trance film that uses the heightened emotional language of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and Michel Foucault's Herculine Barbin as a starting point for a meditation on the eroticism of grief and the fluidity of gender identity in extremis. An early exploration of the uses of poetry in film, it intentionally pushes the boundaries of contemporary emotive expression.

These two films were complemented by David Henry Haan’s play It Always Rains When John Cusack Is in Anguish, presenting a comedic encounter between John Cusack and a woman at a bus stop, and several film shorts and other works, including…

• Soundproof by Rocco Giuliano, a whimsical look at the filmmaker's old and new home, exploring the persistent tension between individuality and community

• o(77) by Julie Miller, a visionary experience intended to induce trance through image in order to experience altered states

• Vac†ncy by Mike Ware, an intensely personal short film, a meditation on the Catholic Church

 • The Passenger by Julie Zammarchi, an animated film of the memories, dreams, and visions that crowd a woman’s consciousness as she travels in a car toward her own death

• Breakfast, an installation about family and time, exploring the mutability of memory by Julie Mallozzi

• Circle Song a Fantasia on a theme of nine repeating patterns in six colors by Douglas Urbank; digital transfer of a handmade 16 mm film, a collage of hand-painted leader, altered found footage, adhesive overlays and applied optical sound

Indiscreet Discretion

By Silvia Graziano
 

Choreography by Courtney Peix
Danced by Contrapose Dance

Music Composed by Brendan Burns

Directed by Marc S. Miller

June 15-23, 2012
10 Channel Center Street
Boston, MA

Click here to view production photos by Daniel J. van Ackere

About Indiscreet Discretion

"Where there was id, there shall be ego." - Freud

Fort Point Theatre Channel's playwright and co-artistic director Silvia Graziano's new play takes a deep, dark look at the battle between our human and animal impulses. This premiere production is a chilling story of a trio of characters whose paths cross with surreal results. A big city writer is holed up with his lover in the country and as they discuss his upcoming murder story, a stranger comes upon their house, seemingly the victim of some kind of accident. The three people share secrets, but the inevitable battle for control leads to the question of where their stories of sex and violence will end. The actors will be joined on stage by a pair of dancers from the Contrapose Dance and musician Brendan Burns, who composed the score for play.

Click the photo for more. Photos by Daniel J. van Ackere.

Since its founding in 2007, FPTC has earned a reputation for unique productions that bridge the diverse genres of its 13 artist members and their guests. With Indiscreet Discretion, FPTC takes this further, combining traditional theatre with original dance by Contrapose Dance, and featuring live music composed and performed by Brendan Burns. The script has a touch of Edgar Allen Poe and Harold Pinter-mixing reality with surrealism-while blending the dark and the delicious.

Click here to read Dream Weird's interview with playwright Silvia Graziano about Indiscreet Discretion.

The Ensemble

The acting ensemble was composed of three of Boston's finest: Michael Fisher, Becca A. Lewis, and Victor L. Shopov. They were joined by Burns, guest musicians, and dancers Magda Gyftopoulos and Tony Tucker from Contrapose. The expansive, organic set was created by installation artist, Rick Dorff, a member of Fort Point Theatre Channel and a founding member of the Atlantic Works Gallery in East Boston where he shows his work.

The Production Team

Production Stage Manager: Vivian Yee
Costume Design: Maureen Festa
Lighting Design: Todd Sargent
Sound Design: Mark Warhol
Set Design: Rick Dorff
Workshop Stage Manager/Props Design: Amanda Sheehan
Makeup: Maya Landi
Assistant Lighting Design: Ida Aronson
Photography: Daniel J. van Ackere
Design Associate: Douglas Urbank
Graphic Design: Nick Thorkelson
Publicist: Amy R. Handler

Musicians 

Brendan Burns, Guitar, Loops, and Prepared Guitar
Kirsten Lamb, Upright Bass
Tony Leva, Bass
Kathy Olson, Baritone Sax
 

Dancers

Magdalena Gyftopoulos
Tony Tucker

Silvia Graziano

The Hidden Faces of Courage

No Room for Wishing

June 20, 2012

HallSpace Gallery

Dorchester, MA

Fort Point Theatre Channel was pleased to host Danny Bryck reading an excerpt from his new one-man play, No Room for Wishing. This was presented in conjunction with a reading of excerpts from Waiting for Gilgamesh, by Amir Al Azraki, during an exhibition of work by Anne Loyer and others.

No Room for Wishing is a one-man documentary play about Occupy Boston written and performed by Bryck and directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian. Using only the exact words of the people involved in and affected by the movement, the show pieces together the voices and experiences of many diverse individuals into the larger story of what happened over the two months that Dewey Square was occupied.

Both personal and political, No Room for Wishing is an up-close look at the sociopolitical climate of contemporary America and the way it affects a broad spectrum of people. Probing the ways that we as a culture perceive and communicate with each other, it asks, “What happens when we try to reinvent society?”

Click here for more information on No Room for Wishing.

Click here for more information on the exhibition and reading from Waiting for Gilgamesh.

The Hidden Faces of Courage

A Semi-staged Public Reading
By Mary Driscoll
Directed by Jacqui Parker

Saturday, June 2, 8 pm
10 Channel Center Street
Boston, MA

Fort Point Theatre Channel hosted the first semi-staged reading of The Hidden Faces of Courage. This is the newest theatre piece from the Generational Legacy Project of the nonprofit On With Living and Learning, Inc.—OWLL.

The Hidden Faces of Courage came about by working with women worthy to be honored. The play centers around the life of one formally incarcerated woman, her friends, and her son. Their stories symbolize the lives of innumerable woman and children of similar Photos by Daniel J van Ackerecircumstances. That is to say, they become a product of poverty, violence, drug use, and prison. It is their legacy of courage they hope to pass on.

Combining monologues, rap, spirituals, and dance, The Hidden Faces of Courage was presented by the women of OWLL and professional actors from Our Place Theatre Project and Fort Point Theatre Channel.

OWLL, led by FPTC member Mary Driscoll, uses theatre as a medium for public dialogue to promote economic opportunity and active engagement for all members of a community.

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Boston Cultural Council, a local agency which is funded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, administered by the Mayor's Office of Arts, Tourism, and Special Events. The program is also supported by a grant from Mass Humanities.