WATTAGE
New Theater Illuminating Tradition and Survival – Produced by Capital Fringe
Wattage is a performance series produced by Capital Fringe. Each year Wattage features three to four different new works of theater that are examinations of the thread of self through explorations in global citizenship – tradition, environment, identity- these new works in theater are truly new plays of survival. Wattage takes place at Fort Fringe, 607 New York Ave. NW. The three shows will run in repertory doing up to 19 performances each throughout April and May 2011.
"...Inaugural Wattage performance series, a new initiative by those ever-ambitious folks at Capital Fringe."
Washington Post
"...like a huge joyous sneeze of weird experimentation that shakes up the District's theater scene, which is solid but
often stodgy."
Washington Post Express
2010 Wattage - ONLINE PLAYBILL.
April 14 through May 8, 2010
DEVISED BY: Scot McKenzie, Dan Istrate, Kathleen
Akerley, John Gurski, and Yuriy Zahvoysky
FEATURING: Scot McKenzie and Dan Istrate
COMPANY: Capital Fringe
A man journeys into the badlands seeking vision and a reconnection with his primitive self. Movement, music and language are used to explore man’s relationship to himself against the backdrop of the mythical desert in this original, devised, world-premiere work of physical theater.
WASHINGTON POST SAYS....
"With its seamless flow and sensibility, "Hoodoo" is a testament to the possibilities of ensemble creation."
DIRECTED BY: Matthew R. Wilson
DEVISED BY: the ensemble, written by Matthew R. Wilson & Toby Mulford, based upon the Casamarciano scenario
FEATURING: Vanessa Buono, Joel Reuben Ganz, Chase Helton, Michelle Tang Jackson, Toby Mulford, Denise Perrino, Graham Pilato, Annetta Dexter Sawyer, Laura J. Scott, TD Smith, and Rachel Spicknall
COMPANY: Faction of Fools Theatre Company, Inc.
Naples by night. A beautiful runaway meets a swarthy foreigner, transforming cloak-and-dagger intrigue into a Renaissance bedroom farce with masks, swordplay, cross-dressing, and mistaken identity, in this world premiere, ensemble-devised comedy based on a 17th-century Commedia dell’Arte scenario.
DC THEATRE SCENE SAYS...
"If you have never experienced Commedia del Arte, a great opportunity exists with the new work The House with Two Doors playing at Fort Fringe." Read More...
WRITTEN BY: Christy Hall
DIRECTED BY: Rex Daugherty
FEATURING: Stephanie Roswell and Matt Lutz
COMPANY: Autumn Stages
1942. A world at war. A woman left behind. Inspired by letters written by Isabel McMeniman to her husband, Nicholas D’Angelo, YOURS, ISABEL tells the story of World War II from the perspective of one young woman left at home.
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