About This Show
The Blueprint Series is a forum for theatrical exploration and experimentation. Working together, artists push each other to discover their own unique theatrical voices. This year’s works are:
Contingent
Directed by Kenneth Collins
Contingent is an adaptation of David Markson’s novel Reader’s Block and is the second in a series of “box projects”. In this minimalist chamber theater experiment, performers are isolated in large wooden boxes, with just enough room to stand in. The boxes are lined inside with fluorescent lights for illumination and the text is performed entirely over microphones from inside the box, behind its plexiglass front.
Abraham (A Shot in the Head)
Written and Directed by Sam Hunter
With Original Music by Ben Hunter
Here I am. There are over three and twenty six million cubic miles of water on the Earth. There are over 2 billion Christians. There are over 1.3 billion Muslims. There are a bit over 1 million neo-Pagans. The Crusades claimed somewhere between two and five million lives. The estimated civilian death toll in the current Iraq war is somewhere between nine and twelve thousand and rising. Here I am.
Crochet: I Dream Ballet
Written and directed by Beth Kurkjian
Crochet: I Dream Ballet explores intimate and bizarre cross-sections of female youth and senescence. This dream ballet is filled with splintered movement and text; the costumes and set pieces are crocheted in baby blanket hues. Material has been inspired by fairytales, senior citizen line-dancing, bridal showers, and the performers’ own experiences. Who will win the tetherball match?
A Child is Being Beaten
Written and Directed by Keith Mayerson
A Child Is Being Beaten is a dark comedy about the nuclear family with themes of apocalypse, elegy, carnivalesque all wrapped up in one giant enchilada, hard to bite into but juicy and fulfilling in the center. The first act of a two part play, the crunchy core of the narrative will be sure to delight and inspire, shock and awe, repulse and engage.
See the Ontological’s website for detailed performance schedule.
