Liz Magic Laser
dal 26/3/2014 al 28/3/2014
Segnalato da
26/3/2014
Liz Magic Laser
The Kitchen, New York
'Bystander' stages an inverted dialogue between television news and its viewers. With this work, Laser re-imagines a television news broadcast that is filmed, edited and screened live as it is performed on stage.
Developed through a series of interviews with journalists and members of the public, Bystander stages an inverted dialogue between television news and its viewers. Professional newscasters, includingNY1’s Roger Clark, former WWOR-TV reporter Maria Trice and former KEYT-TV weatherman Jon Wright, will perform 2014 news highlights interwoven with the personal stories of New Yorkers collected from nearly a hundred interviews. Actors Lynn Berg, Audrey Crabtree, Annie Fox and Michael Wiener will contribute news reports as if they were voicing personal opinions. By re-contextualizing the television news scenario as theatrical dialogue, Laser lays bare the mechanisms at play in the presentation and reception of current events.
With this work, Laser re-imagines a television news broadcast that is filmed, edited and screened live as it is performed on stage. Laser conducted interviews and wrote the script for Bystander in collaboration with writer Sofia Pontén while both were in residence at the non-profit art space Recess in New York City. Both the Recess Session and the resulting performances at The Kitchen will be staged in a functioning television news studio.
Bystander was developed with and features television journalists and actors Lynn Berg, Roger Clark (NY1 reporter), Audrey Crabtree, Annie Fox, Maria Trice (former WWOR-TV reporter), Michael Wiener and Jon Wright (former KEYT-TV and WLBT-TV weather and news anchor).
Script written by Liz Magic Laser and Sofia Pontén based on nearly a hundred interviews conducted by the cast with members of the public at Recess in SoHo. Assistant Director: Sofia Pontén Technical Director: Irwin Seow Director of Photography: Laura Cooper Costume Stylist: Felicia Garcia-Rivera Research Assistants: Mimi Chiahemen, Lucia Hinojosa, Brian Mcelroy and Rachel Zaretsky
Liz Magic Laser's Bystander is produced in collaboration with Recess, and made possible with support from Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo and The Dorothea Leonhardt Fund at the Communities Foundation of Texas, Inc., Eileen & Michael Cohen, Michael I. Jacobs M.D., Joseph Varet & Esther Kim Varet, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and with public funds from New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
Image: Liz Magic Laser, Bystander, 2014
THE KITCHEN
512 West 19th Street - New York, NY 10011
March 27–29, 8pm
Tickets $15