Monday, April 20, 2009

Kitchen Theatre April / May 2009




Come see what's happening on our Kitchen Sink Series!
The Kitchen Sink Series provides a venue for emerging regional theater artists to develop work through staged readings and informal performances of works-in-progress. For three Mondays in a row, beginning tonight, the Sink series will feature new plays: by IC students Britain Valenti and Mike Poe and local actress Camilla Schade (OLD TIMES). Don't miss this exciting opportunity to see new works!

Kitchen Theatre - Inc. and Toner


Inc. and Toner is a dramedy about relationships and the many trials and triumphs they bring into our lives. Set in the neutral environment of an everyday office, Inc. and Toner follows a few diverse characters through a not so normal day at work. Trevor is trying to find his place in a relationship, which has seemed to give up on him. Gina, everyone's favorite gossip, tries to reminisce about her 3 or 4 or 5 tries at marriage only to find love where she was least expecting it. Even the office's security guard and CEO are given a chance to experience love's ups and downs. A series of hilarity and heartfelt moments come together to create this fun and meaningful piece.

Inc. and Toner was written by Britain Valenti and will be directed by Dustin D. Bell. The cast and production team are composed of Ithaca College Theatre students and will feature actors Nicole Intravia, Melissa Gordon, and more. Inc and Toner is a one night event.
One night only - Monday, April 20th at 7:30pm

Kitchen theatre - On the Bottom



"It's ice. Slippery, daunting ice, and I'm stuck on it." Oslo and Ricardo are awaiting the birth of their daughter, when things finally start moving. When the climate starts overeating the north, life begins moving south and invading the peace the couple had. Forced out of their home by the Olympics, they are left with no choice but to quest to Copenhagen to reclaim what was stolen. A play of epic proportions that pushes the boundaries of myth and fairy tale to explore the limits we allow ourselves to go to in order to change our fate. A journey through the unknown begins without your permission.


Written and directed by Michael V. Poe, the cast features Ryan DeNardo, Daniel Kopystanski, Emma Poole, Amberlee Weber, and Michael Wessells. This original work takes you to the bottom of the world where anything can happen.
One night only - Monday, April 27th at 7:30pm

Kitchen Theatre - Performing Therapy




PERFORMING THERAPY is a wacky romp through depression, loss, displacement, dementia, and the surprise healing nature of Schuyler County written by Camilla Schade and Kira Lallas. A "depressively experienced" actress turned therapist (Camilla Schade) leads group therapy in an attempt to provide helpful advice and therapeutic modalities in PERFORMING THERAPY. Art Therapy with Balloon Animals, Affirmations on Post-it notes and Primal Humming are some of the hopeful remedies. But in her attempt to proffer relief, she gets wildly off-track relating her own poignant story of life after loss in Schuyler County. PERFORMING THERAPY confronts the value of memory through an engaging recognition of the art of letting go.

Camilla Schade is an actor/director/teacher/playwright transplanted 4 years ago to beautiful Schuyler County from PA. She has performed for Ithaca's Hangar Theatre and was last seen on the Kitchen Theatre stage in OLD TIMES. Her acting and improvisation classes and workshops for all ages can be found at 171 Cedar Arts Center in Corning, through the Family Service Society and Pathways in Corning, Ithaca Youth Bureau, and as a Teaching Artist for the Hangar Theatre. Camilla met Kira Lallas through Kira's class on Solo Performance offered by the Kitchen.

Kira Lallas, currently earning her Masters in Social Work, grew up in Ithaca theatres and co- founded the Orange Tree Theatre Company. While at Boston University her studies focused on solo autobiographical writing and performance. She toured her award-winning one-woman show, TRANSLATIONS OF XHOSA, about her time spent in South Africa, until she lived as a resident at Wisdom's Goldenrod Center for Philosophic Study in Hector. The creation of PERFORMING THERAPY was made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts' Decentralization Program administered locally by The ARTS of the Southern Finger Lakes.

One performance only - Monday, May 4 at 7:30PM