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Myself and Murmuration will be opening the 2013 Phreak N Queer Festival at The Rotunda tomorrow evening at 8pm. We will be revisiting an improvisational structure that we created for a concert in May.
Check out more information here! I am proud to announce that Go Long Big Softie, my 2013 Philadelphia Fringe Festival devised theater work, has been awarded a $10,000 grant from the Wyncote Foundation! I am honored and excited by the the opportunity to create this piece on a larger scale. Come see us when we open in September! You can buy tickets now here.
We've been hard at work at the Torrent Collective the past couple of weeks. We've had a photo shoot with the fabulous Kate Raines and have put out our first press release. I'd like to share some of the images and press material with you. --- Artistic Director of Groundswell, Scott Sheppard, goes head to head with 2013 FringeArts LAB Fellow, Mason Rosenthal, in Go Long Big Softie, a new devised theater piece that tackles the hard and soft questions of contemporary masculinity. Under the assistance of Charlotte Ford, who delighted audiences in 2012 with BANG, a clown show about female sexuality, Go Long Big Softie enters the world of defunct 1980’s mens’ groups, taking audiences on a mythopoetic journey to heal the wounds of the male psyche. The site specific piece takes place at the Torrent Collective, a dilapidated architectural palimpsest in the Italian Market District. Rosenthal explains, “This building has been a 7UP bottling factory, a boxing club, and a Vietnamese cultural center. Now it is a space for fire spinners, DJ’s, martial artists, and rappers. It’s gone through its own masculine identity crisis and it’s falling apart. It’s the perfect place to investigate the past, present, and future of male identity.” Robert Bly, a major figure in the mythopoetic men’s movement of the 80’s and 90’s controversially claims, “Every modern male has, lying at the bottom of his psyche, a large, primitive being covered with hair down to his feet. Making contact with this Wild Man is the step the Eighties male or the Nineties male has yet to take. That bucketing-out process has yet to begin in our contemporary culture.” Go Long Big Softie asks, what can an antiquated men’s group obsessed with the power of myth teach us about becoming a man today? There are just three days left in the Kickstarter campaign for Go Long Big Softie!
Please consider making a contribution here. Check out some of the research that has been happening this week for the piece. Here you will find a video apology to women from a group called "Conscious Men." And here is a response to that video. If you have a 90 minutes or free time, you could also watch this, a PBS special on American poet Robert Bly and his work with the mythopoetic men's movement in the 90's. If you can't contribute to the Kickstarter, please spread the word and come to the performances in September! I am back after a brief vacation and a short time without phone or internet access. Refreshing! But I have lots of work to catch up on.
There is video to go through from Nobody's Home, Drunkmonk, and even some footage of Mining the Mine of the Mind for Minderals. I am hoping to edit together some new excerpts for my video page in the next few weeks. I would also like to plug Go Long Big Softie again and to ask for your support in the Kickstarter campaign to bring it to life. We have only 10 days to go and we are just under $1000 from our goal! The show is at that critical stage in a devised work where we are making decisions about what ideas to continue to pursue and what should be left behind. I'm hoping to explore more of the mythopeotic men's movement and have been reading up on analytical psychology and Jungian archetypes. Please spread the word about the campaign |
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