Rising Phoenix Repertory announces the 15th play in the CINO NIGHTS SERIES: sex and death in london- a new play BY crystal skillman and directed by michael padden.
The show is fully produced on half a shoestring AND performed, warts and all, for ONE NIGHT ONLY – SUNDAY, February 12th at 7PM, featuring Shyko Amos, Megan Hill, Nathan Hinton and James Leighton at the Seventh Street Small Stage, 43 East Seventh Street (6 to Astor Place, R/W to 8th Street, F to 2nd Ave).
THE FIFteenth IN a year-and-a-half-long series of
TWENTY-one world-premiere plays commissioned by rising Phoenix rep
to BE performed in the extremely intimate close quarters of the basement space of downtown restaurant Jimmy’s No. 43
Performances from September 2010 – June 2012
Admission is free; space is extremely limited reservations are strongly encouraged and can be made by calling 212-946-5198
for more information please visit www.RisingPhoenixRep.org
Following performances for its first year of Cino Nights presentations (including new plays by Gary Sunshine, Mando Alvarado, Courtney Baron, Florencia Lozano, Kristen Palmer, Emily DeVoti, Lucy Thurber, Jessica Dickey, Adam Szymkowicz, Laura Eason, Daniel Reitz, Megan Mostyn-Brown, Dael Orlandersmith, and Keith Reddin), Rising Phoenix Rep continues the series on February 12th at 7 p.m. with SEX AND DEATH IN LONDON by Crystal Skillman.
The play takes place in a South London pub that two girls have broken into during the riots of 2011, where they find themselves confronted by their worst fear as the violence mounts around them: their best friend’s father looking for his missing daughter. SEX AND DEATH IN LONDON is directed by Michael Padden and features Shyko Amos, Megan Hill, Nathan Hinton and James Leighton.
Inspired by Joe Cino and his Caffe Cino—one of the original birthplaces of Off-Off-Broadway theatre and early home to such writers as Doric Wilson, Robert Patrick, John Guare, Sam Shepard, Lanford Wilson, and William M. Hoffman—New York Innovative Theater Award winning company Rising Phoenix Rep has commissioned twenty-one playwrights to write new, full-length plays for the Seventh Street Small Stage, the intimate back room space at Jimmy’s No. 43 in the East Village, where the company has mounted critically acclaimed and award winning productions of new plays for the past six years.
Rising Phoenix Rep artistic director Daniel Talbott described the series as a place to tap into the raw, inspired, inventive, and pioneering work of the Caffe Cino, where the love of theatre and new plays was joined with a scrappy, do-it-yourself work ethic. All shows will be rehearsed for a week and then fully mounted and produced, warts and all, for one night only with free admission.
Cino Nights are currently scheduled through June 2012 and will celebrate the spirit of indie theatre as a home for new plays and theatre artists as well as hopefully honor what has been said of the Caffe Cino: “the first studio of theater where playwrights can experiment as painters and poets have done for a century, free from the tyranny of audience, box-office, church, and criticism.” The plays will be fully produced for one night only on a more or less monthly basis. The remaining playwrights, in the order their plays will appear, are:
March 11th – Jonathan Blitstein
March 25th – Charlotte Miller
April 22nd – Brooke Berman
May 2012 – Melissa Ross
June 10th – Daniel Talbott
June 17th – Cusi Cram
The previous productions in the series were:
Gary Sunshine’s BEST SEX EVER premiered on October 3, 2010. It was directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel and featured Stephen Bel Davies, Cathy Curtin, Jimmy Davis, Mike Doyle, and Jeffrey Nauman.
Mando Alvarado’s (O)N THE 5:31 premiered on October 24, 2010, directed by Taibi Magar and featuring Jolly Abraham, Sarah Baskin, and Bernardo Cubria.
Courtney Baron’s HERE I LIE premiered on November 7, 2010, directed by Daniel Talbott and featuring Denis Butkus and Samantha Soule.
Florencia Lozano’s BUSTED premiered December 12, 2010, directed by Portia Krieger and featuring Maggie Bofill, Audrey Esparza, Nate Miller, Puy Navarro, Ana Reeder, and Jeanine Serralles.
Kristen Palmer’s THE STRAY DOG premiered on January 23, 2011, directed by Julie Kline and featuring Stephen Brown, Chad Goodridge, Brian Miskell, Laura Ramadei, Jelena Stupljanin, and Haynes Thigpen.
