#1 Screaming Weenie
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The Bacchae
created by Tracey Draper, Ilena Lee Cramer, Rachel Flood, Glenn Garinther, Troy Jackson, Shane L. Koyczan, Maggie Blue O'Hara, George Pan, Christine Stoddard and Samantha Tucker
directed by Ilena Lee Cramer
an electronic opera: The classic tale of the orgiastic and animal vs. the restraint and order of society
took place in a large room above a bakery
created by Tracey Draper, Ilena Lee Cramer, Rachel Flood, Glenn Garinther, Troy Jackson, Shane L. Koyczan, Maggie Blue O'Hara, George Pan, Christine Stoddard and Samantha Tucker
directed by Ilena Lee Cramer
an electronic opera: The classic tale of the orgiastic and animal vs. the restraint and order of society
took place in a large room above a bakery
Canada
Screaming Weenie Theatre Company
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"Take Euripides’ classic Greek tragedy about the conflict between reason and passion, repression and sex, restraint and wine-fuelled debauchery, and set it in a club to the pounding, hypnotic electronic beat of house music. Put the actors in among the audience and have them sing the story."
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"Take Euripides’ classic Greek tragedy about the conflict between reason and passion, repression and sex, restraint and wine-fuelled debauchery, and set it in a club to the pounding, hypnotic electronic beat of house music. Put the actors in among the audience and have them sing the story."
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I think that this is a very unconventional form of theatre. While it still has many aspects of a normal show such as lights, sounds, music, and dancing it is used in such a way that you would not expect it to be seen in a normal setting. In fact it is not in a normal setting, it is in a club atmosphere. The text of the piece is also not the "normal" version of The Bacchea which also makes it very unconventional.
#2 ISH Theatre Company
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show entitled 4-ISH
presented in the Chicago Children's Theatre
performance troupe for Amsterdam
January 19 –28, 2007
hip-hop and break dance
half-pipe skating
human beat-boxers
martial arts displays
acrobatics
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I think what really makes this art unconventional is the fact that there is really no story to the show, it is just routines of dance and extreme sports. The fact that it is presented on stage to lights and sound for children is what makes it theatre. When first looking at it I wasn't really sure that it would be that unconventional but then I realized that to the normal theatre go-ers this is not normally what they would be expecting to see on stage. It is also geared more towards extreme sports which is a genre outside of theatre.
#3 Gorilla Theatre
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The Gorilla Theatre
Jane Eyre adapted by Polly Teale
Director: Nancy Cole
October 25-November 11, 2007. Thursdays at 7, Fridays and Saturdays at 8, Sundays at 3
Jane: Katherine Tanner
Bertha: Shana Perkins
Rochester: Ned Averill-Snell
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ALTER EGOS: Katherine M. Tanner
(left) as Jane Eyre and Shana Berkins
as Bertha.
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This is definitly a form of unconventional theatre because of the altered text. This production of Jane Eyre includeds the character Bertha who Rochester marred in Jamaica who went mad. In this show Bertha plays the alter ego of Jane Eyre who is locked in the attic longing to get out. It involves tons of dance movement to portray the emotions of the alter ego. Anytime you alter the state of a script, I would consider it unconventional.
#4 UPT FORMA
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entitled FLOATING CHARACTERS
Director: Karen Kipphoff
Character Nr 1: Pedro Gomez-Egana, Agnes Nedregaard
Character Nr 2: Mikkel Rasmussen Hofplass, Karen Skog
Character Nr 3: Viktorija Rudytė, Marie Prinz
founder Viktorija Rudyte
Lithuania
to organize separate groups of talented artists for implementation of a concrete project and introduction of the audience to the original product of the “creative studio of the theatre”.
• to change the stereotypical attitude towards the puppet theatre, to have a new vision of the theatre.
• to operate the vision of the new postmodern puppet theatre in the world of the technological information.
• to achieve that puppet theatre becomes a synthesis of scenography, puppet design, directing of the plays and the multimedia.
• to enforce the changes in the theatre by the modern plays not only for children, but for adults as well. To make puppet theatre popular among the teenagers, they see it as a challenge.
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Karen Kipphoff (a professor at the Fine Art Academy in Bergen) bases the performance on the Russian absurd play ‘A Certain Number of Conversations’ by Alexander Vvedensky . In the performance, we find three characters who speak different languages English, Norwegian and Russian, as well as puppets reminiscent of Japanese Bunraku Theatre, video, visual elements and voices.
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I think this is a very unconventional form of theatre due to where it is from and also by the use of puppets and projections. While it is true that more and more productions have adapted the use of multimedia such as projections they are not always used in the way that this company chooses to use them. I think that the shows that the UPT Forma put on are truly unique. Because they are written and directed by company members there is not always a set story or dialouge but rather images and sound used to tell the story, along with puppets and humans.
#5 The Independent Eye
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2007
production entitled Dream House
a solo show featuring Elizabeth Fuller
Written by Conrad Bishop & Elizabeth Fuller
Directed by Conrad Bishop, music by Elizabeth Fuller
Performances at Phoenix Theatre (San Francisco, CA), premiering 11/4/06
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video of the Dream House Trailer
While Dream House will definitely not be everyone’s cup of Red Rose, the decidedly nonmainstream show is bursting with more ideas, revelations and philosophical introspection than are usually found in 10 shows.
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This is a truely unique and unconventional show. The simple fact that it is so unique is what makes it unconventional in my eyes. With the use of props and sound it is almost haunting but also uses humor. I think the set is also very unconventional with its use of christmas lights, sheets and that it is constantly changing.
