New Ohio Theatre Presents ICE FACTORY FESTIVAL – Preview

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WHEN:

June 30 - Aug 14, 2021
Wednesdays thru Saturdays
7 pm EST

WHERE:

New Ohio Theatre
154 Christopher Street S
New York, NY 10014

TICKETS:

$20+
Available at New Ohio Theatre website

The New Ohio Theatre’s 28th annual Obie Award-winning Ice Factory Festival includes live in-person performances, featuring seven new works over seven weeks. An event spokesperson says Ice Factory Festival, “… offers emerging and established companies a prime platform to develop their work. Ice Factory prides itself on maintaining extraordinary aesthetic diversity along with an unequaled standard for intelligent, imaginative theater.”

See below for the descriptions by Festival organizers of ICE FACTORY 2021 SCHEDULE:

Pre-Show - Endless Loop of Gratitude

“Endless Loop of Gratitude is a solo, interactive sound installation that opens one hour prior to the start of each Ice Factory performance. Participants are invited to record their own reflections on gratitude or read the words of another person who is not present.”

CREATIVE TEAM:

Broken Chord
Jackson Gay
Steven Padla
Riw Rakkulchon
Ashley Thomas

Week 1 - The Extremely Grey Line - A 23.5° Tilt Production

“Come take a ride on the Extremely Grey Line - a site-specific show led by psychopomps, designed around the streets of New York which are also the graveyards of New York which is also the life of New York.”

CREATIVE TEAM:

Director: Estefania Fadul

Writers: Kate Pressman, Elizagrace Madrone

Week 2 - Kim Loo Gets a Redo

“A deeply personal response to the rise of hate crimes against the Asian community, Kim Loo Gets a Redo shifts the historical paradigm to the AAPI perspective, explores the erasure of AAPI women both past and present, and reclaims agency lost.”

CREATIVE TEAM:

Writers: Lisa Helmi Johanson, Kimberly Immanuel

An Original Piece Inspired by Real Women

Week 3 - Liminal Archive - Al Límite Collective

“This immersive theatrical experience guides audiences through the intimate moments of isolation experienced by artists as they traverse the unknown during the early days of the pandemic.”

CREATIVE TEAM:

Producing Directors:
Leah Bachar
Monica Hunken
Dennis Yueh-Yeh Li

CAST:

Leah Bachar
Shan Y. Chuang
Spicy Delight
Sanam Erfani
Monica Hunken
Philip Santos Schaffer

Week 4 - As the Sun Sets

“This dance/media work explores how Black people continue to find happiness and joy even in the predominantly white spaces of Sundown Towns, where their very presence makes them unsafe.”

CREATIVE TEAM:

Creators: Dow Dance
Choreography: Caleb Dowden

CAST:

Imani Gaudin-County
Andy Guzmán
Jai Perez
Caleb Dowden

Week 5 - A Grave is Given Supper

“Anchored by a series of surreal and interlinked poems, infused with rituals of love and loss, this multimedia work incorporates video projections, dance, and a Nortec soundscape to explore the complicated desires of people living in the borderland.” In partnership with Teatro Dallas.

CREATIVE TEAM:

Director: Claudia Acosta
Poet: Mike Soto

CAST:

Elena Hurst

Week 6 - HERSTORY- In Tandem Lab

“A female artist leaves an inheritance to two young women with no apparent relationship to her
or each other. But on one condition: they must create something together…. Inspired by Shakespeare’s female characters.”

CREATIVE TEAM:

Director: Gisela Cardenas
Writer: Javier Antonio González

Creators:
Gisela Cardenas
Laura Butler-Levitt
Heather Hollingsworth

CAST:

Laura Butler-Levitt
Heather Hollingsworth

Week 7 - My Onliness

“A Mad King performs his royal power as an act of martyrdom in a desperate attempt to impress a mysterious petitioner while the Master of Ceremony orchestrates songs of torture, truth, and tenderness.” Performed with fully integrated ASL interpreters.

CREATIVE TEAM:

Text: Robert Lyons
Director: Daniel Irizarry
Composer: Kamala Sankaram
Director of ASL: Alexandria Wailes in partnership with IRT Theatre

CAST:

Daniel Irizarry
Cynthia La Cruz
Kamala Sankaram
Gabriel Silva
Rhys Tivey
Alexandria Wailes

For more information, visit New Ohio Theatre.

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