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PushPush's Spring Play Festival: PinterFest
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Over fifty artists are currently participating in PinterFest, offering
a range of diverse approaches of the late Harold Pinter's work.
Artists from all over Atlanta are working on productions including The
Dumb Waiter, Landscape, The Lover, The Review Sketches, and many more
of Pinter's works.
PinterFest! continues with three new additions to the line-up:
"A Midwesterner's Tale" is based on the work of Harold Pinter and features Leslie Sharp and Tim Habeger in a comedy directed by Matt Stanton. A nice farm couple from Minot, North Dakota may not have a very sexual marriage, but they make up for it with a daily dose of mindgames. Staged with improv-style conventions and rules, this is the beginning of a longer string of productions.
In "Night," Pinter puts us in the middle of a late night discussion between a couple who can't remember how it was they first hooked up. Or maybe they do remember, only differently. Featuring Jeremiah Prescott and Quynh Le, this short drama is one of Pinter's most poetic short works.
"Victoria Station" features Alison Hastings in her first PushPush show as a cab driver who seems to be done with taking orders. What could cause anyone to simply step out of the world of going to work, doing what you're told and following directions? Additional collaboration by Tim Habeger.
Including two short intermissions, the entire evening runs approximately 80 minutes.
Continuing to run through June: Landscape, featuring Joanna Daniel and Daniel Burnley, directed by George Faughnan and filmed by Brent Dey, and The Dumbwaiter, featuring Charlie Adair and Jonathan Chaffin, directed by Shelby Hofer.
Other PinterFest offerings include work from Robin Bloodworth, David Bruckner, Rene Dellefont, Keith Hooker, Nickolas Tecosky, and many more.
Tickets to most events will be a pay-what-you-can sliding scale of $12-$25 and the festival will run throughout May and June. Please see our calendar for scheduling information.
PushPush is not production house, but a space where film, theater and
music artists can work and try new ideas. We invite the audience to
take part by watching the work, staying for talk-backs or a beer, and
generally following the progress of artist-generated work here in
Atlanta.
Each year we create many new film and/or theater productions. Many of
these productions move on to regular producing theaters for full runs.
Though it has been our mission since the beginning, this type of
incubation is a relatively new way of thinking about creating work,
and it is a vital part of the Atlanta arts ecosystem.
See what's going on all the time...
See what's coming up...
Ongoing
The Doug Dank Project
A long-form improv show inspired by the personal stories of a featured guest monologist.
Wednesdays,
10p ( $5 at the door)
Georgia for Democracy 1st Tuesday and 3rd Sunday Documentary Night*
Screening some of the most influential and illuminating documentaries for our times.
1st Tuesday and 3rd Sunday Documentary Night, 7:30p (Free)
*Dates and times subject to change, check www.georgiafordemocracy.org for latest updates..
Happening in 2009!
On New Year’s Eve 2008, our co-production of copyME with Berlin’s Gutes Tun Kollective premiered in Bordeaux, France at the Les Grandes Traversees Festival.
In February, we a premiered The Extremists in Berlin, a co-production between PushPush, 7 Stages, and English Theater Berlin. The show returned to in March to Atlanta where it ran for three weeks at 7 Stages.
During the Berlin Premiere of The Extremists, copyME also had its Berlin premiere at Ballhaus Ost, one of Berlin’s top independent theaters, and now a collaborating partner with PushPush. Simultaneously, we joined Ballhaus Ost in a partnership around open-source strategies designed to increase the impact of individual artists. Berlin critics called copyME’s timely topic “a new direction” and openly welcomed and encouraged the partnership of Atlanta and Berlin. The show returned to Berlin’s stages in April and then to the U.S. later this season.
Coming this spring, summer and fall:
-In May and June, we bring back our popular Spring Play Festival featuring a range of work by a notable playwright. This will be our first to be produced with open-source thinking at the heart of the process. This year takes on the late, Nobel Prize winning writer for stage and screen, Harold Pinter with Pinter Fest. A variety of productions will be featured throughout May and June, and for the first time, we are joined by our own Dailies Filmmakers. Pinter, who passed away last year, was himself equally an artist in both Film and Theater.
-In May we host five international artists to work on three touring projects: Action, Carrying Cathy, and copyME. This residency’s primary focus will be Action, a new collaboration and production between PushPush and Total Brutal, a German/Israeli company headed by provocative new artist, Nir de Volff. Before touring, this new production will premiere at Berlin’s famous Neue Synagogue in July 2009.
-The spring residency of international artists also begins our most ambitious project to date, Carrying Cathy. Seven artists from Iceland to Argentina will join forces with artists from Atlanta to present a mini-tour of four shows in three American cities, while simultaneously using the experience of the tour to create a new work focused on the controversial subject of “how we measure quality when viewing the work from various cultural perspectives.” The tour will be comprised of dance, theater, film and music, and will connect several of Europe’s most respected emerging artists and companies with hundreds of emerging artists in America. The associated venues’ partners will share global resources and bring four European premieres to Atlanta, LA and New York, a brand new American/European collaboration (Carrying Cathy), and finally, a documentary about the project and the spirit of exchange in the 21st Century.
-We are offering four summer camps for young people. For the first time in 13 years, we are combining film and theater in the same camp. These camps are a treasure in Atlanta that have brought quality literature to thousands of young people. These uniquely developed camps put artistic integrity on the same level as participation and fun. We are excited about keeping up with the times and introducing the ‘movie play’ to a whole new generation of artists and patrons. This year’s camps are lead by David Bruckner and Tim Habeger.
-Turner Broadcasting has partnered with PushPush to create the first annual, “New Forms of Distribution” seminar in the fall of 2009. In this day and age of internet broadcast and new digital means of getting work out to a world-wide audience, this gathering will help us keep our fingers on the pulse of new developments in arts’ distribution and marketing.
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