Ice Factory ’06

Ice Factory is Soho Think Tank’s annual summer festival of new work. STT presents work by emerging and established downtown companies, as well as exceptional national and international groups. STT prides itself on the aesthetic diversity of the work presented, while maintaining a standard of intelligent, imaginative theater.

July 5-8
CONCRETE TEMPLE THEATRE
The WanderLUSTers present Achtung Grimm!
A gothic and operatic retelling of two Brothers Grimm tales by an out-of-work traveling, carnival troupe. From Snow White’s Mirror Mirror singing how he determines “Who is the fairest of them all,” to The Juniper Tree’s Stepmother singing “What’s in it for me?” before decapitating her Stepson, The WanderLUSTers give the Grimm tales a comic yet menacing twist.

July 12-15
PEOPLE CAN RUN (England)
Aruba in collaboration w/script by Rob Evans
A travel agent going nowhere, an under performing personal trainer, and an ad-man who believes the hype. A darkly comic tour through the lives of three desperate young urbanites as their carefully constructed worlds begin to unravel. Sharp writing, black humor and physical absurdity in a high-octane theatrical universe.

July 19-22
THE TEAM (The Theatre of the Emerging American Moment)
Particularly in the Heartland, created by Rachel Chavkin w/the company
Six highly specific, flawed, hysterical and divine humans in a basement pageant of insomnia, cooking lessons and birthday parties. Perceptions shaped by geography and geometry, travel and maps, soil and rock. Drawn from Mid-west mythologies ranging from The Wizard of Oz to intelligent design to the liberal obsession with Bobby Kennedy’s assassination. Gently absurdist kitchen sink realism with dreamy magical sequences!

July 26-29
SOHO THINK TANK
The Flight Of Icarus, by playwright Aaron Mack Schloff adapted from the novel by Raymond Queneau and director Samuel Buggeln (longtime STT Artistic Associate)
Icarus flees from the novel of his author Hubert, who hires a detective to find him. But Icarus has already met LN, a prostitute who herself escaped from a crossword puzzle. Together, they are building a life in a 1890’s Paris, full of New Things: the automobile, sado-masochism, aviation, the color mauve… all great temptations for one who wants to be Modern.

Aug 2 – Aug 5
RIPE TIME
Betrothed Rachel Dickstein, Artistic Director
A dance-infused, visually rich adaptation of three stories exploring the dreams, expectations and losses surrounding women’s relationship to marriage and independence. Crossing time and cultures, to investigate Eastern and Western rituals that infuse individual identity with meaning and power. A unique and cutting-edge new perspective on the most controversial ceremony of our times.

August 9-12
BIG TIME ACTION THEATER
Jaded Assassin, written by Michael Voyer, conceived and directed by Timothy Haskell, fight choreography by Rod Kinter
In a mythical world, in brutal times, a curse has plagued the land ever since the chosen ones ired the gods. It is up to one non-pureblood to end the curse and end the misery that has wrought her land. Even if that means killing everyone in her path to do it. The Jaded Assassin is the world’s first original action play, with over 70 minutes of fight/ action choreography. This high-powered, adrenaline rush of a play kicks ass. Literally.