The New 42nd Street and The New Victory Theater Present Once and For All We're Gonna Tell You Who We Are So Shut Up and Listen. Winner of the Herald Angels, Total Theatre and Fringe First Awards at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Once and For All...will be presented by The New Victory as part of the 2010 Under The Radar Festival and will run at The Duke on 42nd Street from January 8 through January 17, 2010.
Once and For All... is a ferociously honest and resonant play about adolescence as seen through the eyes of 13 teenagers. In keeping with their collaborative approach, creators Ontroerend Goed and KOPERGIETERY (Belgium) and Richard Jordan Productions (UK) developed the play with input from the teen performers. The result is an affecting collage of text and physical theater set to a soundtrack of "defiance" rock, punk and classical music that underscores the theme of teen rebellion.
"I react against the meekness, the poetry, the melancholy that is connected with ‘the adolescent,'" said Once and For All...director, Alexander Devriendt. "This age has so much roughness. I seldom see people pointing that out. It's in this period that you take the freedom to be rude, fully conscious that you will be forgiven for that for a while."
Text in Once and For All... is by Joeri Smet, Alexander Devriendt and the actors. Dramaturgy is by Mieke Versyp, scene and costume design is by Sophie De Somere, sound design is by Stijn De Gezelle, light design is by Jeroen Doise, and technique is by Geert Willems.
The cast includes Aaron De Keyzer, Barbara Lefebure, Charlotte De Bruyne, Christophe De Poorter, Dina Dooreman, Edith De Bruyne, Edouard Devriendt, Elies Van Renterghem, Febe De Geest, Helena Gheeraert, Ian Ghysels, Koba Ryckewaert, Fée Roels, Zeno Fieremans and Nathalie Verbeke.
The performance schedule is Friday 1/8 7:30pm; Saturday 1/9 2pm, 7:30pm; Sunday 1/10 3pm; Thursday 1/14 7:30 pm; Friday 1/15 7:30pm; Saturday 1/16 2 pm, 7:30pm; and Sunday 1/17 3pm.
Tickets for members cost $17.50 and $25 for non-members. Those who purchase tickets to this show and at least two other New Victory productions during the 2008-2009 season become a New Victory Member and save 30% on tickets to all New Victory shows for the entire season. To purchase tickets visit NewVictory.org, call 646-223-3010, or visit The New Victory Theater Box Office
Ontroerend Goed is a theater performance group that creates intimate, individual performances as well as larger-scale theater plays. Following this double track, the company gives themselves the freedom to explore the boundaries and codes of performing arts and to open up theater to the varied expectations and tastes of a wide and diverse audience.
KOPERGIETERY is a performing arts center in Ghent, Belgium, with a focus on theater, dance and music. The building is a former factory situated in the center of Ghent and plays host to companies and artists from Belgium and abroad. Most KOPERGIETERY events and performances are directed toward young audiences, and the theater provides many workshops where young people are given the opportunity to learn and develop their own work.
Richard Jordan Is a British-based producer as well as managing director of Richard Jordan Productions Ltd., a busy London and international award-winning production and theater general management company. He has produced or co-produced over 100 productions and presented plays and musicals in London and throughout the UK, New York and across the US, Canada, Australia, Ireland, Brazil, Iceland, Germany and South Africa. In 2000, Mr. Jordan became one of the first recipients of the TIF/Society of London Theatre Producers Award. He has been listed four consecutive years in the UK's Stage Newspaper Top 100 British theatre professionals and is the only commercial producer to be named in the 2008 Who's Who edition of Britain's Business Elite; Young Business Leaders.
The New Victory Theater is New York City's first and only full-time performing arts theater for kids, their families and classmates. Since it opened in 1995, The New Victory has quickly become an integral part of the cultural landscape in New York City, presenting a full season of adventurous multidisciplinary works from around the globe and close to home. The New Vic seeks out sophisticated, thought-provoking, professional productions that are as artistically rich as they are entertaining. Tickets are made affordable as a result of support from a variety of public and private sources and cost an average of $17, with seats for members available for as little as $8.75.
