Season 3: Reinvention

The New Theatre Project
Season 3: Reinvention

WOYZECK
an interactive theatrical haunted house
by Georg Büchner
in an adaptation by Audra Lord
directed by Brian Carbine
with original music by Fern Cloak
in a co-production with Threefold Productions and the Brendalinda Performance Collective

October 18-November 4, 2012

An extremely prolific young playwright dies without completing one of his greatest masterpieces. Woyzeck, a terrifying play about the disastrous effects of human jealousy, lies incomplete, fragmented, and waiting for any artist crazy enough to take it on. TNTP joins forces with Threefold Productions and the Brendalinda Performance Collection to transform the piece into an interactive haunted house where the audience decides how best to complete Büchner's play.

WOLF CRY WOLF
world premiere drama
by Kevin Kautzman
directed by Emilie C. Samuelsen

December 2012

When Steph returns home to North Dakota for the first time in years and surprises her estranged childhood friend Jane, they descend into their memories and relive the summer Jane told Steph her deepest secret: she knows how to turn into a wolf. Wolf Cry Wolf looks at the fine line between memory and imagination and at the lies we tell to survive our shadows. A beautiful new play from the playwright of last season's comedy If You Start a Fire [Be Prepared to Burn].

EDWARD II
world premiere classical adaptation
based on the play by Christopher Marlowe
in an adaptation by Jason Sebacher
directed by Keith Paul Medelis

March 2013

Before Shakespeare, Marlowe writes an epic tragedy about a young and naïve king and his obsession with his once banished lover. A deeply erotic and shocking tale of homosexual love affair that destroys two men and the fate of an entire nation. TNTP produces the classical play in a wildly reimagined way for a contemporary audience.

THE AMERICAN CROWBAR CASE
A folk-opera
featuring the music of Match by Match
with a book by Jason Sebacher
directed by Keith Paul Medelis

June 2013

A revival and reworking of one of TNTP's most successful collaborations—a true reinvention of ourselves. In 1846, Phineas Gage suffers an accident that drives a 3 foot iron rod through his skull. Incredibly, he recovers miraculously in almost no time but is described in the only brief news article about his case as "no longer Gage." The American Crowbar Case, based on the concept album from local musicians Match by Match, imagines the life of Gage and the effects of accident on his new wife Constance and a mysterious stranger known only as Missy. A story about the consuming power of love and its remarkable ability to transform in an instant.

Video credits:

Music: "American Crowbar" from Match by Match

Directed and edited by Roman Micevic

Featuring:
Gray Bouchard
Melissa Coppola
Caleb Kruzel
Evan Mann
Emily Roll
Sango Tajima

New work. New ways. New artists. Take a risk.