The Available Light 01 Festival
July 13-15 8pm
July 16 2pm
Columbus Performing Arts Center
549 Franklin Ave.
http://one.avltheatre.info
Available light [theatre] presents the first annual 01 Festival of solo performance July 13-16 at the Columbus Performing Arts Center. Each evening (and one afternoon) of entertainment features 3 one-person shows, created by artists from Columbus, Cincinnati, and New York.
Sean Christopher Lewis's I Will Make You Orphans (A One Man, One Mic, Hip-Hop Drama) is currently touring the U.S. and Canada and has already made stops in Victoria, Austin, Iowa City, Minneapolis, Albany, and Brooklyn. A genre-bending tale told entirely in rhyme, Orphans is the story of Sean Boogie - a confused white boy in upstate NY who believes he's "blacker" than his African American poetry professor. When his girlfriend becomes pregnant and his teacher questions his reality, Boogie is left questioning not only who he is but who he wants to be. Ken Webster of the Hyde Park Theatre in Austin, TX wrote, 'A brilliant writer and performer ... powerful, funny, and hugely entertaining. The performance, the writing, and the superb direction knocked me out."
In Jen Spillane's VIRTUE: did she fall or was she pushed?, deftly crafted characters share their passion, fear, and yearning between poetic bursts questioning modern virtue. As Spillane puts it, ?In what some are calling "post-feminist" America, the conversation about sexuality has been subverted into a backroom tug-of-war between our puritanical past and the Be-Young-Sexy-Hot present.? A show for men and women, VIRTUE rejects easy answers, acknowledging the dissonance the of advice (Girls can do Anything! Girls are Pretty! Be a Gentleman! Be a Lady!) lobbed our way. Roger Pille wrote in City Beat, ?This is the kind of theater that whirls around you while you're seated comfortably in the audience, but then it envelopes and consumes you when you leave. Easy? No. Fun? At times. Well executed? Always.?
Last, but not least, will be Available light's The Absurdity of Writing Poetry, which debuted in June at the Cincinnati Fringe Festival. The play, about an artist who tries to give up his creative habits, received rave reviews in Cincy, including an ?A+? from City Beat, and a page 4 editorial that placed the show at the center of a manifesto for ?young Cincinnati.? Rick Pender called it "a stirring ode to creativity."
Each evening of the 01 Festival of solo performance lasts three hours, including two intermissions.
Tickets are $15 for adults, $8 for students and seniors. More information, including photos, reviews, videos, and tickets can be found at http://one.avltheatre.info.
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