Available light [theatre] http://www.avltheatre.com/ en Copyright 2009 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:28:16 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss We Moved. over here now.

Want just the feed? OKAY.]]> http://www.avltheatre.com/2009/01/first_look_the_internationalis.html http://www.avltheatre.com/2009/01/first_look_the_internationalis.html Thu, 22 Jul 2009 00:28:16 -0500 6 Great Lines from The Internationalist by Anne Washburn

"Do you know that you are the last person I will have ever met who I will not lie to?" "Do you want me to say something obscene? Yoi ma i fa ha. D'lal ad na amginck tai." "We're going to go down in history as chumps, you and I, and we have no way of knowing why" "What always amazes me is that the future will look back to this time and find it exactly as barbaric." "And by this time the neighbors are awake and I see them in their windows, they're looking at me and my boyfriend hopping around naked in the moonlight with a fox and a narmont." "Oigula." Opens January 8. INFO HERE.]]> http://www.avltheatre.com/2008/12/6_great_lines_from_the_interna.html http://www.avltheatre.com/2008/12/6_great_lines_from_the_interna.html Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:40:34 -0500 Did you see the show? Now take the survey! Click Here to take the survey for "Foolin' Around with INFINITY."

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]]> http://www.avltheatre.com/2008/12/did_you_see_the_show.html http://www.avltheatre.com/2008/12/did_you_see_the_show.html Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:34:36 -0500 FIRST LOOK: INFINITY

CLICK HERE for more info.]]> http://www.avltheatre.com/2008/12/first_look_infinity.html http://www.avltheatre.com/2008/12/first_look_infinity.html Foolin' Around with INFINITY Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:25:30 -0500 Foolin' Around With Infinity

TWO DAYS ONLY!

December 19 & 20, 2008 @ 7pm

Burke Hall of Music and Art
Denison University
Intersection of Broadway and Cherry in Granvillle
CLICK HERE for a map and directions.

Foolin' Around with Infinity by Steven Dietz
"The play you are about to see contains poetry, profanity, infidelity and Monopoly. Nobody sings. Deal with it.'

In a missile silo one mile beneath Utah, a pair of Air force officers wait to destroy the world while a desperate runaway, Luke, seeks cover in a nearby fallout shelter.

This genre-bending political comedy stares down nuclear annihilation as personal responsibility faces off with control and the knowledge that we don't always have it, asking "How do you find direction in a world that may not exist tomorrow?"

Directed by Eleni Papaleonardos and featuring Tim Browning, Acacia Duncan, Kiana Harris, Nate Roderick, and Cole Simon.

PAY WHAT YOU WANT.
Every seat, every show, for everyone.]]> http://www.avltheatre.com/2008/11/foolin_around_with_infinity.html http://www.avltheatre.com/2008/11/foolin_around_with_infinity.html Infinity Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:28:00 -0500 Do You Twit? Or is it Tweet? twit.jpg Well, we've been playing with this new Twitter game for a while and we think you should to. You can find us and follow us (or just find out what I'm talking about) by clicking here.]]> http://www.avltheatre.com/2008/11/do_you_twit_or_is_it_tweet.html http://www.avltheatre.com/2008/11/do_you_twit_or_is_it_tweet.html Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:55:33 -0500 House Party mhp.jpgJoin us at 1525 Rayne Lane, Columbus OH 43220.
We'll be celebrating our President-Elect.

View some videos from past Metronome House Shows right here.]]> http://www.avltheatre.com/2008/11/house_party.html http://www.avltheatre.com/2008/11/house_party.html Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:49:11 -0500 Militant Language is postponed We are extremely disappointed to announce that we are indefinitely postponing our production of Militant Language.

We do, however, strongly encourage you to make the trek to CIncinnati to see the Know Theatre's production of this important, contemporary play. We'll be there, for sure.

More soon,
AVLT]]> http://www.avltheatre.com/2008/10/militant_language_is_postponed.html http://www.avltheatre.com/2008/10/militant_language_is_postponed.html Militant Language Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:28:11 -0500 Get Ready for Militant Language

Sean Christopher Lewis's amazing new play about the human costs of the Iraq War opens in Columbus and elsewhere next month. Available Light is proud to be the Columbus outpost of this national effort.

Final dates and ticketing information will be released soon.

For now, please read this great article from the Columbus Dispatch or visit the show's official website.

More soon.

]]> http://www.avltheatre.com/2008/09/get_ready_for_militant_languag.html http://www.avltheatre.com/2008/09/get_ready_for_militant_languag.html Militant Language Iraq Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:36:18 -0500 A Supposedly Fun Thing We'll Never Do Again 1 if there ever was one, apparently committed suicide last week. To show our love for the author and his work, Available Light (with special guests) will perform excerpts from his work during our designated 60 minutes from 4 to 5pm on the Due Amici stage at Independents' Day this weekend.

Please join us for a rollicking good eulogy. This will be a one-time only performance.

Here's a picture of David Foster Wallace.

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For more information about and remembrances of the author, please CLICK HERE for the NY Times. For more personal insights that may be "some kind of salve", visit McSweeney's by clicking here.

Here is a quotation from him that we particularly like and put into a show a few years ago.

Let's for a second imagine Joe Briefcase as just an average US male, relatively unlonely, well-adjusted, married, blessed with 2.3 apple-cheeked offspring, utterly normal, home from hard work at 5:30, starting his average six-hour stint in front of the television. Since Joe B. is average, he'll shrug at pollsters' questions and answer averagely that he most often watches television to unwind from those elements of his day and life he finds unpleasant. It's tempting to suppose that TV enables this unwinding simply because it offers a "distraction", something to divert the mind from quotidian troubles. But would mere distraction ensure continual massive watching? In a lot of ways, television purveys and enables dreams, and most of these dreams involve some sort of transcendence of average daily life. The modes of presentation that work best for TV - stuff like action sequences, the rapid-fire collage of commercials, news, and music videos, or the hysteria of prime-time soaps and sitcoms - are unsubtle in their whispers that somewhere, life is quicker, denser, happier, more interesting, more . . . well, lively than contemporary life as Joe Briefcase knows it.
1. "Pomo mofo" being old BlueForms Theatre Group slang, now adopted by Available Light, the successor of BlueForms, (though successor may not be the right word, but I'll bet that's a more appropriate divagation for another moment) abbreviating and invoking "postmodern motherfucker". "Motherfucker" is not, in this case, slang not for one who has intercourse with those who have borne or adopted children, (that in and of itself is an insult dating back to the 14th century) rather a slightly pejorative substitute for any noun that needs emphasis, (making it an obscene pronoun, I guess) in this particular case, though, being a compliment since BFTG and now AVLT strive to emphasize the postmodern as a matter of course in their scholarly and research-based approach to the ensemble-oriented creation of new works of performance art (itself a somewhat pejorative term, but, lacking in this case any more accurate jargon, I'm gonna let it stand).]]> http://www.avltheatre.com/2008/09/a_supposedly_fun_thing_well_ne.html http://www.avltheatre.com/2008/09/a_supposedly_fun_thing_well_ne.html Uncategorized David Foster Wallace Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:39:44 -0500 9.20.08 is Independents' Day CLICK HERE for more info. dueamici01.jpg]]> http://www.avltheatre.com/2008/09/92008_is_independents_day.html http://www.avltheatre.com/2008/09/92008_is_independents_day.html Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:13:10 -0500 Time and a Few Words - KimPix Picture the Sound stopped by tonight and made some magic with those lengthy lenses of hers. Here are a few choice results.

]]> http://www.avltheatre.com/2008/09/time_and_a_few_words_kimpix.html http://www.avltheatre.com/2008/09/time_and_a_few_words_kimpix.html Time and a Few Words Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:22:54 -0500 Time and a Few Words - First Look

Opens Thursday, September. (Yes, that's today.)

ALL TIX: Pay What You Want
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CLICK HERE to share this video with a friend or two.]]> http://www.avltheatre.com/2008/09/time_and_a_few_words_first_loo.html http://www.avltheatre.com/2008/09/time_and_a_few_words_first_loo.html Time and a Few Words Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:00:55 -0500 We've Moved In Time and a Few Words. We had a blast pushing furniture around, hanging speakers and lights, and generally making mischief for a few hours before rehearsal.

Director Matt Slaybaugh took a few pictures from his post during the rehearsal. Enjoy.

Oh yeah, and Pay What You Want tickets are on-sale now. CLICK RIGHT HERE.

5291.jpg]]> http://www.avltheatre.com/2008/08/weve_moved_in.html http://www.avltheatre.com/2008/08/weve_moved_in.html Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:43:01 -0500 Introducing the cast ... Time and a Few Words.

(l to r) Acacia Duncan, Aran Carr, Chip Becker, Ian Short, Michelle Schroeder, Eleni Papaleonardos

AVLT_TAFW_01w.jpg]]> http://www.avltheatre.com/2008/08/introducing_the_cast.html http://www.avltheatre.com/2008/08/introducing_the_cast.html Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:30:17 -0500