A work in progress showing of The Waypoint premiered at MASS MoCA on Saturday February 6, 2010 to a sold out audience!  Check back soon for updates, to get the inside scoop and to learn where the project is heading next. We will also be posting behind the scenes photos of our ten day residency and musings from North Adams!

ABOUT THE WAYPOINT

Weaving rich narrative, magical realism and an original soundscore, The Waypoint reveals the epic and often unexpected journey into life. The action of the play centers around Shelby, whose unplanned pregnancy reveals concern that her broken past will make her unfit to bring another life into this world, and Tristan, her soon-to-be-born baby who is hesitant to make his way to earth. Taking place simultaneously in two distinct worlds, the play moves seamlessly between life on earth and the waypoint, a transitional place where souls prepare for reincarnation. Written by Iris Dauterman while in residency at Bazaar Productions’ own EarlyStages program in 2008, the play is filled with wit, humor and a story that is both surprising and sublime. We are delighted to have the opportunity to develop this project while in residency MASS MoCA, a true leader in the contemporary arts movement and an organization we deeply admire.

Featuring: Emma Dweck, Josh Ramos, Timothy Ryan Olson, Adam Sugarman, Karen Beaumont, Hilary Somers Deely and Matt Tannenbaum

Directed by Sara Katzoff, Sound Score by Peter Wise, Lighting Design by Tim Cryan and Costumes by George Veale

Originally developed at EarlyStages, under the guidance of award-winning playwright and dramaturg Laura Maria Censabella.

WE NEED YOUR HELP TO CONTINUE THE PROCESS OF BRINGING THIS EXTRAORDINARY PLAY TO LIFE!

Our residency at MASS MoCA was an incredible opportunity to delve into the process of generating new work. An anonymous donor has generously offered to give us $1000 to underwrite production costs and artist fees–if we are able to raise an additional $5000 from our friends and supporters. Help us reach our goal and play a part in The Waypoint’s next incarnation!

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WORLD PREMIERE

Written by Gabriel Patel, Directed by John Hadden

With themes straight from Greek tragedy and language from the skate park, Graveyard Shift paints an unflinching picture of young, lower-middle class life right here in Great Barrington.

Creating a vibrant and humorous contemporary theater of place, Graveyard Shift chronicles the lives of Alice, a tumultuous, fast talking heroine, and Murdoch, a troubled late night convenience store clerk. Amidst the backdrop of youthful angst and harrowing family drama, the two strike up an unlikely friendship that awakens a deep current of love and mutual respect.

Thursday, August 13 at 7pm
pi¢k your own pri¢e – opening night
Friday, August 14 at 9pm
Saturday, August 15 at 7pm
Sunday, August 16 at 9pm,
Monday, August 17 at  8pm, followed by a posts show discussion

Graveyard Shift Contains strong language and adult themes

Known for its riveting performances of new and experimental music, TimeTable invites audiences to experience percussion up close.

Specializing in music that crosses boundaries of style and discipline, with an emphasis on works that challenge the language and materials of percussion music, TimeTable collaborates closely with emerging and established composers to investigate and expand the possibilities for percussion-based music.

ALEX LIPOWSKI • MATTHEW GOLD • MATT WARD- Percussion

FREE EVENT!

Stick around for the closing night performance of Graveyard Shift at 8pm

For more information on TimeTable percussion, visit www.timetablepercussion.com

The Lambda Literary Award nominated Phi Alpha Gamma is a haunting portrait of brotherhood, masculinity, love and fear embedded in American culture.

Two years after two young men perpetrate a gay-bashing that scars their fraternity’s reputation, another member of the fraternity comes out of the closet. Phi Alpha Gamma focuses a compassionate eye on young men searching for a deeper connection with each other.

The story weaves together the voices of four fraternity brothers as they each grapple with the remnants of the hate crime and this new revelation.

Wednesday, August 12 at 8pm, followed by a post-show discussion
pi¢k your own pri¢e – opening night
Thursday, August 13 at 9pm
Friday, August 14 at 7pm
Saturday, August 15 at 9pm
Sunday, August 16 at 7pm

*You may remember Dan from his hit show, Thanks for the Scabies, Jerkface!, at The 2006 Berkshire Fringe

Combining overdriven fingerstyle guitar, live computer processing, and apocalyptic percussion rhythms to create a driving folk-noise soundscape, Oliphant smoothly shifts gears from multimeter thrash to a quiet ambient western soundtrack.

James Moore, Guitar
Jen Stock, Laptop Electronics
Pete Wise, Percussion

FREE EVENT!

Stick around and $ Pick Your Own Price for opening night of Phi Alpha Gamma by Dan Bernitt beginning at 8pm

For more information on Oliphant, visit www.oliphantrocks.com

EAST COAST PREMIERE

Created by Eliza Ladd and Little Big Tree Productions

Inspired by the New York Times Magazine article ‘Are We Driving Elephants Crazy?’, Elephants and Gold is an ensemble driven physical theater piece that drags, digs, buries, crawls and plunges into an archeological excavation of human identity.

Blending song, movement and dreamlike vignettes, the cast chronicles human migration, ritual and inter-species dynamics. The performers transform into early humans, elephants, Victorian explorers, lost men and poachers, within a landscape of metal buckets, heavy stones, iron hooks and strands of rope. Elephants and Gold reveals both the ancient and contemporary relationships between elephants and humans and questions our evolutionary and cultural stories.

Thursday, August 6 at 7pm
pi¢k your own pri¢e – opening night
Friday, August 7 at 9pm
Saturday, August 8 at 7pm
Sunday, August 9 at 8pm
Monday, August 10 at  8pm,  followed by a post show discussion

Photo by Alex Miles Young

Named for the Roman god whose double-faced image peers into the past and future, the Janus trio maintains traditional instrumentation while breaking new ground into unexplored sonic frontiers. Beginning with Debussy and including Toru Takemitsu, Harald Genzmer, André Jolivet, Sophia Gubaidulina and Kaija Saariaho, audiences have been continually been suprised and allured by this intriguing combination of something bowed, something blown and something plucked.

Beth Meyers, Viola
Amanda Baker, Flute
Nuiko Wadden, Harp

FREE EVENT!

Stick around for the closing night performance of Elepahnts and Gold
by Eliza Ladd beginning at 8pm

For more information on Janus, visit www.janustrio.org

By John Lawson, directed by Aimee Michel

In an eclectic love letter to the city of New Orleans, Hurricane Hotel grabs a hold and takes us on a ride into the underbelly of a drowned city destined to be reborn. Adapted from the novel by Berkshire-based visual artist and author John K. Lawson, this world-premiere staged reading is directed by Aimee K. Michel, and features an original music score by Chris Marianetti and an ensemble of local actors.

One performance only:
Sunday August 9, 2pm

FREE EVENT!

*You may remember Chris Marianetti from his :30 Live! performance of Fragile at the 2008 Berkshire Fringe. This film/music event also featured artwork by John Lawson. 

Written and performed by Amy Salloway

Amy is FAT as hell, and she’s not gonna take it anymore! But when her radical, desperate, last-ditch plan to nab herself a socially acceptable body backfires, how will she live with the reality that remains? Can an internal and external self ever reconcile after years of bitter divorce?

Created by award-winning Minneapolis actor/writer Amy Salloway, Circumference jumps back and forth between memories of the junior high Presidential Physical Fitness Test and the realities of life in a weight-hating world two decades later, to present a fearlessly honest and hilarious story of size, sweat…and exercising your demons.

Wednesday, August 5 at 8pm, followed by a post-show discussion
pi¢k your own pri¢e – opening night
Thursday, August 6 at 9pm
Friday, August 7 at 7pm
Saturday, August 8 at 9pm
Sunday, August 9 at 6pm

*You may remember Amy from her hilarious shows, Does This Monologue Make Me Look Fat?, at The 2005 Berkshire Fringe and Kiss Me Already, Herschel Gertz!, at The 2007 Berkshire Fringe.

Photo by Scott Pakudaitis