Ice Factory 2005

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. Ice Factory offers companies (like adobe theatre, Jane Comfort, New Georges, Pig Iron Theatre Company, Elevator Repair Service, Les Freres Corbusier and The Rude Mechs) a prime forum in which to develop new work for possible future productions.

Schedule

July 6-9 Sabooge Theatre

Fathom

Devised and created by the company

At the far edges of the known world, a disenchanted shell collector and a sickly boy navigate science and survival in the bug-ridden fundamentalist colony of Tasmania. With minimal props, live music, and unflagging ingenuity, Fathom weaves its way through history and fantasy.

July 13-16 Fiona Templeton

The Medead

A life, a year, a day, a dream. From birth to expulsion. From having a mother to being a mother. Violent. Sexual. Misinterpreted. Both an epic of Medea’s life and a journey into the dark, comic collisions of language.

July 20-23 The Riot Group

Switch Triptych

Written & Directed by Adriano Shaplin

New York City, 1919. At a switchboard exchange on the brink of extinction, three operators stare down the future, desperate to preserve their matriarchy. A carelessly researched, serious-minded, peep-show for the brain.

July 27-30 Favored Nations Theatre

Psyche

Written by Deborah Wallace

Directed by Leon Ingulrud (SITI Co. founder)

Music by Andy Gilis

James Barry was born in 1796. He was a surgeon and a soldier. He fought duels and treated lepers. He was tried for sodomy and acquitted. He was also a woman. An epic musical about war, medicine, sexuality and love, told through the life of a flamboyant and fascinating human being who chooses to love only in the dark.

August 3-6 The Foundry Theatre

Major Bang

Featuring Steve Cuiffo

Directed by Paul Lazar (Big Dance Theater)

David Hahn earns a merit badge building a homemade nuclear reactor in his backyard. A heady concoction about nuclear suitcases, The Anarchist Cookbook, and Zbignew Brezinski. Is this the end of geo-political war, or just an awe inspiring magic trick? Entertainment for the little terrorist in each of us.

August 10-13 Witness Relocation Company

In a Hall in the Palace of Pyrrhus

Directed by Daniel Safer

Designed by Ruth Pongstaphone

The Palace is awash in Grand Guignol blood, guts and Bowie songs to create an expressionistic production of the classic Racine play Andromaque, itself an adaptation of the classic Greek play.