Monday, April 20, 2009

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

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