Greenland- A New Play
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“I know my place, my place is right here
No better place than your own backyard,
I won’t run off, I won’t scare my brother
Because he loves me very very much."
We are pleased to announce the Red String Ensemble's inaugural production, Greenland.
After a year of development and private readings we will be presenting a workshop production for the first time at Dixon Place on 1/27/17 at 7:30pm.
Greenland is written by Jake Brasch.
Directed by Madeline Barr
Starring Jake Brasch, Lilli Hokama, Kevin McGee and Brittany Vicars.
Dramaturgy/Assistant Direction/Stage Management by Eva Meiling Pollitt
Fight Choreography by Tucker Worley
Music by Billy Winger
With this campaign, we are hoping to raise money both for our one night workshop production and for a two week-long full run planned for the Spring. There are many expenses. We need to purchase a deer carcass, a wedding dress we can pour fake vomit on and 700 beer cans, among many other things. We need to purchase rehearsal space, performance space, and hire designers. We need your help. We are proud Colorado artists making new work in New York. This is our first chance as a young company to have our voices heard. We are comitted, trained, perseverant theatre people and could not be more proud of our first public work. This is the labor of many years; members of our team have known eachother since kindergarten. It would mean the world to us if you could support us through our initial undertaking. It is our promise to you that there will be much more where this came from.
This is an important and scary time for our company to produce this play. The play is about the dangers of grief. In the year since the play was first written, we have lost a few very close members of our inner circle. It has really hurt. We have questioned over the past year if we can handle the dark and challenging world of this piece. This is not the play that Jake would have written given what our community and country have gone through over the past year, but perhaps it is the play we all need. It is a mirror of sorts. We are looking forward to sharing a work that will challenge people to look at the the most heartbreaking aspects of what it means to love in today's world.
The play is also about misogyny and isolation in mainland America. By the time of our first performance, this will be Trump's country. These are the people that voted for him. This is a true American family, living on pension checks, deeply caring, deeply flawed and deeply afraid of the future.
Given the state of the world, the Red String Ensemble feels the need to double down on our founding principles. Our name comes from the Chinese legend of the Red String of Fate which states that those of us who are bound to meet or help eachother are all connected by invisible red strings around our ankles. As we go forward as theatre makers in today's world, we will not live in fear, we will fight. We will attract those who want to commit to a counterculture that advocates for love. Love for each other, love for the world, love for the cities and the mountains and the soil and the sun. We believe that before we can change we must look at ourselves in the mirror. We are hoping that this play will help us do that. We would be honored to have your support in our desire to fight, to make, to scream, to sing, to love.
Greenland is a strange, lost, snow storm of a play. It follows a family in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado who reunite after a devastating event changed their lives forever 10 years earlier. The piece opens with a dead deer being dropped onto the living room floor of the family cabin. Is it possible that this dead animal might just get up and leave? It's possible. But what's more probable is that Sissy, Ryan, Chappy and Jaz will watch this animal rot and become accustomed to, or perhaps even in love with, its stench.
The Red String Ensemble is an collective based in New York committed dually to new theatre work and to nurturing the physical, intellectual and spiritual needs of its members.
Madeline Barr, Director
Brittany Vicars and Jake Brasch, Artistic Directors of the Red String Ensemble.
No better place than your own backyard,
I won’t run off, I won’t scare my brother
Because he loves me very very much."
We are pleased to announce the Red String Ensemble's inaugural production, Greenland.
After a year of development and private readings we will be presenting a workshop production for the first time at Dixon Place on 1/27/17 at 7:30pm.
Greenland is written by Jake Brasch.
Directed by Madeline Barr
Starring Jake Brasch, Lilli Hokama, Kevin McGee and Brittany Vicars.
Dramaturgy/Assistant Direction/Stage Management by Eva Meiling Pollitt
Fight Choreography by Tucker Worley
Music by Billy Winger
With this campaign, we are hoping to raise money both for our one night workshop production and for a two week-long full run planned for the Spring. There are many expenses. We need to purchase a deer carcass, a wedding dress we can pour fake vomit on and 700 beer cans, among many other things. We need to purchase rehearsal space, performance space, and hire designers. We need your help. We are proud Colorado artists making new work in New York. This is our first chance as a young company to have our voices heard. We are comitted, trained, perseverant theatre people and could not be more proud of our first public work. This is the labor of many years; members of our team have known eachother since kindergarten. It would mean the world to us if you could support us through our initial undertaking. It is our promise to you that there will be much more where this came from.
This is an important and scary time for our company to produce this play. The play is about the dangers of grief. In the year since the play was first written, we have lost a few very close members of our inner circle. It has really hurt. We have questioned over the past year if we can handle the dark and challenging world of this piece. This is not the play that Jake would have written given what our community and country have gone through over the past year, but perhaps it is the play we all need. It is a mirror of sorts. We are looking forward to sharing a work that will challenge people to look at the the most heartbreaking aspects of what it means to love in today's world.
The play is also about misogyny and isolation in mainland America. By the time of our first performance, this will be Trump's country. These are the people that voted for him. This is a true American family, living on pension checks, deeply caring, deeply flawed and deeply afraid of the future.
Given the state of the world, the Red String Ensemble feels the need to double down on our founding principles. Our name comes from the Chinese legend of the Red String of Fate which states that those of us who are bound to meet or help eachother are all connected by invisible red strings around our ankles. As we go forward as theatre makers in today's world, we will not live in fear, we will fight. We will attract those who want to commit to a counterculture that advocates for love. Love for each other, love for the world, love for the cities and the mountains and the soil and the sun. We believe that before we can change we must look at ourselves in the mirror. We are hoping that this play will help us do that. We would be honored to have your support in our desire to fight, to make, to scream, to sing, to love.
Greenland is a strange, lost, snow storm of a play. It follows a family in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado who reunite after a devastating event changed their lives forever 10 years earlier. The piece opens with a dead deer being dropped onto the living room floor of the family cabin. Is it possible that this dead animal might just get up and leave? It's possible. But what's more probable is that Sissy, Ryan, Chappy and Jaz will watch this animal rot and become accustomed to, or perhaps even in love with, its stench.
The Red String Ensemble is an collective based in New York committed dually to new theatre work and to nurturing the physical, intellectual and spiritual needs of its members.
Madeline Barr, Director
Brittany Vicars and Jake Brasch, Artistic Directors of the Red String Ensemble.
Organizer
Jake Brasch
Organizer
Brooklyn, NY
