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GEOFF SOBELLE |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Geoff Sobelle graduated from Stanford University before training at Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris. He is the co-artistic director of Rainpan 43, a renegade absurdist outfit devoted to creating original actor-driven performance works, including the 2005 hit at St. Stephen's all wear bowlers. He has been a company member of Philadelphia's Pig Iron Theatre Company' since 2001 and has been nominated for three Barrymore Awards, including the prestigious F. Otto Haas Award 2004 in Philadelphia Magazine. Pig Iron works include: Gentlemen Volunteers, Mission to Mercury, Shut Eye, James Joyce is Dead and so is Paris, Hell Meets Henry Halfway, Chekhov Lizardbrain and Welcome to Yuba City.
Plays by Geoff Sobelle
All Wear Bowlers | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
Company: | HARP / Rainpan43 | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #58952 | |||
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Genre: | 75 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Geoff Sobelle and Trey Lyford | |||||
Synopsis: | The absurdist tale of two silent film stars who fall off the screen and into a clown show. In trying to understand the situation, they just become more confused. Comedy, physical theatre, stage magic and vaudeville all combine in this Edinburgh hit; Samuel Beckett meets Rene Magritte meets Laurel and Hardy. | |||||
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Elephant Room | ||
| 1st Produced: | Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater, 1101 Sixth St SW, Washington, DC | 20 Jan 2012 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #136265 | |||
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Genre: | 75 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Created by Steve Cuiffo, Trey Lyford, and Geoff Sobelle | |||||
Synopsis: | Combine the glory of a Styx reunion tour, with the transcendental power of a 200-year-old Zuni shaman and add a dash of trailer park ennui and you come close to describing the mystical pull of a trip to the Elephant Room. From the uninhibited, "engaging" (Washington Post) absurdist performance duo Rainpan 43 and actor-magician Steve Cuiffo comes a new theatrical event. Filled with off-the-wall magic and sublime comedy, Elephant Room examines the childlike wonder of three deluded illusionists who choose to live their off-center lives by sleight of hand. | |||||
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Flesh and Blood & Fish and Fowl | ||
| 1st Produced: | Philadelphia Live Arts Festival. | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Barrow Street Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #118036 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Charlotte Ford and Geoff Sobelle | |||||
Synopsis: | Barricaded behind the doors of civilisation's last office, co-workers rearrange the food chain in a feral mix of theatre, art and taxidermy. From the twisted minds of Charlotte Ford and Geoff Sobelle comes their latest concoction of off-the-chart physical humour and provocative storytelling. | |||||
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Machines Machines Machines Machines Machines Machines Machines | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #98833 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written and Performed by Quinn Bauriedel, Trey Lyford, Geoff Sobelle | |||||
Synopsis: | This absurdist play is the story of three paranoid xenophobes who go to such lengths to protect themselves from the outside world that they themselves become the object of suspicion. Central to the piece are the workings of extraordinarily complex Rube Goldberg-style machines that have been assembled to accomplish super menial tasks. With its players exercising maximum effort for minimum gain, machines machines machines machines machines machines machines employs a unique blend of clowning and engineering in a sendup of America's obsession with technology and security. | |||||
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