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KATYA SCHAPIRO |
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Plays by Katya Schapiro |
Better Angels | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bushwick Starr, New York | 2007 | ||||
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| 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 | #84576 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Thousand Thousand Slimy Things, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Waterfront Museum and Showboat Barge, 290 Conover Street at Pier 44, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY | 23 Apr 2010 | ||||
Company: | Polybe and Seats | |||||
| 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 | #113837 | |||
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Genre: | Site Specific | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 5 | ||
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Notes: | written by Katya Schapiro; conceived by Jessica Brater | |||||
Synopsis: | Opening the day after Earth Day, A Thousand Thousand Slimy Things fuses nautical mythology and literature with oceanography and marine biology, hoping to inspire meditation on the literal plasticizing of the ocean habitat. A man floats on the open ocean, clinging to his best friend-an ever-shrinking bit of iceberg. He gazes below the surface of the water and thinks he sees. . .mermaids performing Ibsen's Lady from the Sea? Elsewhere, a salty sea captain shuttles back and forth from the miles-wide vortex in the North Central Pacific known as the Garbage Patch, delivering messages in bottles and smuggling the impossible. Elsewhere still, a marooned sea creature rants and a strange disease is spreading. All will collide in a mythic place called Florida. Inspired by the Weeki Wachee Mermaid Park-one of the nation's oldest roadside attractions (and smallest cities)-A Thousand Thousand Slimy Things is a floating fantasia, staged on board a docked barge in Brooklyn's historic Red Hook District. The production carries the energy of Earth Day forward and incorporates: material culled from sources ranging from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Moby Dick to oceanographic blogs and transcripts of first-hand interviews with the Weeki Wachee mermaids; original material generated by over 20 actors, writers, and designers over two years; and a portable set composed of reclaimed plastic objects. In the midst of the world's debate about how to reverse humanity's global impact-or whether there's been any significant impact at all-Polybe + Seats confronts a frightening possibility: What if there's nothing to be done? What does one do in the face of inevitable, unavoidable change? | |||||
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