The Motor Company presents
Oracular Recall
part of the Communal Spaces Festival
Woodbine Street Block Association Garden
Bushwick, Brooklyn
September 14-29, 2019
The world premiere of an original short play by Ben Holbrook
Featuring Aviva Jaye, Jaz Astwood, and Victoria Villier
photos by Ben Holbrook
Delta Boys Theater Company & The Tank present
YEAR OF THE MONKEY
The Tank (New York City)
June 13-22, 2019
The world premiere of an original play by Mara Thomas.
This partly scripted, partly devised play centers on female rage, warrior babes, ritual, intuition, getting back to nature, and modern warfare. It follows a squadron of 5 women+ who are waging literal war on the patriarchy deep in the jungle, green beret-style, and digs into how we unknowingly replicate the same bullshit abuses in our struggles to dismantle the master's house.
Featuring Allison Altman*, Dawn L. Troupe*, Jaz Astwood, Kimberlee Walker, and Lauren Dortch-Crozier
Directed by Caitlin Wells
Stage managed by Olivia Cucinotta
Set design by Willie Gambucci
Sound design by Adam Lindquist
Lighting design by Joe D’Emilio
Makeup design by Charlotte Bravin Lee
*Denotes member of Actors’ Equity
This was an Equity Approved Showcase.
photos by Ben Holbrook
poster design by Lauren Kerr
Inspired by: Audre Lorde's Sister Outsider, The Spell of the Sensuous, Women Who Run With the Wolves, The Woman in the Shaman’s Body, The Things They Carried, If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home, Michael Herr's Dispatches, Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Psychomagic; Apocalypse Now, Platoon, Full Metal Jacket; the Dionysian Mysteries, Jungian archetypes, and ancient mythology... among many, many other things.
Residencies & Grants
Mara & Caitlin were awarded creative residencies with Drop Forge & Tool in Hudson, New York, and the Turkeyland Cove Foundation on Martha’s Vineyard to continue to develop YEAR OF THE MONKEY.
They also recently received a Manbites Dog Theater Fund Grant for the upcoming North Carolina production slated for June of 2020.
Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern presents
YES TO NOTHING
Slim's (Raleigh): Aug 31 - Sept 2, 2017
Nightlight (Chapel Hill): Sept 7-9, 2017
Pinhook (Durm): Sept 14-16, 2017
The world premiere of an original play by Mara Thomas
Four young punk rockers tumble out of the van in the early '80s. With no rules and no road map, they navigate the beer- and piss-stained music scene of their youth as well as their lives and legacy 20 years later.
Featuring Drina Dunlap, Nelle Dunlap, Maxine Eloi, Jessica Hudson, Maggie Lea, Dana Marks, Meredith Sause, Alice Rose Turner & Steven G. Cooper
Directed by Caitlin Wells
Stage managed by Jessica Flemming
Design & photos by Kim Black
Musical direction by William Dawson & Owen FitzGerald
"In Punk-Rock Musical Yes to Nothing, a Female Band from the Eighties Faces Music-Scene Sexism We Still Know Too Well"
- interview with director Caitlin Wells, by Brian Howe, Indy Week
"New Play ‘Yes to Nothing’ Follows Four Women In Punk Across The Decades"
- WUNC radio preview with the cast & playwright Mara Thomas
Old punks never die. They just stand in the back.
photos & design by Kim Black
