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Date: August 14, 2011 through August 20, 2011
Hours: 50 min. runtime
Ages: 12+
Price: $12

Address:
155 First Avenue
East Village, NY 10003

Phone: 212-254-1109
Website: www.theaterforthenewcity.net

Description: "" (world premiere) written and directed by Claire Moodey, animations and set design by Lotte Marie Allen and Claire Moodey. Cino Theater - Sunday, August 14 at 2:00PM; Monday, August 15 at 9:00PM; Wednesday, August 17 at 7:00PM; Friday, August 19 at 7:00PM; Saturday, August 20 at 7:00PM. Running Time: 50 minutes | Tickets $12 -

"" is a radio play silent movie. A multimedia theater piece with puppets and animation, it is inspired by Italo Calvino's novel "Invisible Cities." The seated audience is invited wander through the map of consciousness, riding the sine waves conducted by characters named Our Man of the World and the Girl with a Backpack. Claire Moodey, author and director, grew up in Erie, PA and attended Bard College where she studied Theater. She has worked as a farm hand, electrician, dry stone wall builder, archeologist, and puppeteer in California, Vermont, France, Scotland, and Jordan. Last year she moved to Brooklyn and her recent credits include "The Escape Artist" at P.S. 122 (video performance, P.A.), "Canned Ham" at Dixon Place (lighting design), Bread and Puppet Theater's adaptation of Monteverdi's "The Return of Ulysses" at Theater for the New City (vocalist, puppeteer) and "My Mother," a performance piece at St. Cecilia's Convent. She has also performed the Herald in "Marat/Sade," "The Ruffian on the Stair," and was a core member of the collaborative theatre company The Blushing Players.

Lotte Marie Allen (puppets and animation) is an artist as well as part-time printmaker, art teacher, opera liaison, artist assistant and model. She makes installations, stop-motion animations, scented stuffed animals, photographs, imaginary landscapes, woodcuts, lithographs and drawings. Right now she is working on textile and animation projects in her studio with the Montrose Arts Initiative in Brooklyn, NY. She is a graduate of Bard College.

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