The Barrow Street Theatre will host its third annual Fortnight Series, featuring several local artists and companies, January 23-29. Guests include Jeffrey Sweet, Martin Dockery, PigPen Theatre Co., New York Neo-Futurists, and John Clancy and friends. In the past, this series, (“Fortnight 0.5” this year due to its one week run), has featured performers from Texas, Chicago, New York, the UK and Ireland.
The 2012 installment presents New York-based companies and performers, many reprising heralded shows from recent years, and some revisiting work first seen 20 years ago.
The eclectic and entertaining line-up for Fortnight 0.5:
Jeffrey Sweet: YOU ONLY SHOOT THE ONES YOU LOVE
Monday, January 23rd at 8pm
Tickets: $15
How I found a second family in improvisational comedy including a crazy uncle named Del Close and inadvertently became the illegitimate grandfather of the Upright Citizens Brigade. With special regards to the Cossacks for not quite killing my grandmother.
MARTIN DOCKERY: THE BIKE TRIP
Tuesday, January 24th at 8pm
Tickets: $20
Solo performer Martin Dockery rides into town in his internationally acclaimed solo play, “The Bike Trip,” in which he sets out to recreate the exact circumstances of the first LSD trip by the drug’s inventor, Albert Hoffman in 1943. With painstaking attention to detail, Dockery locates the office in Switzerland where Hoffman invented LSD, ingested it for the first time, and from which he rode his bike to his home while under the influence. Dockery’s recreation of this first test is far from another trip around the block. What it is exactly is a little harder to say. Seen only once in New York, "The Bike Trip" has earned best-of-festival awards at the Winnipeg Fringe, the Orlando Fringe, and the London Fringe. www.MartinDockery.com
PIGPEN THEATRE CO.: THE NIGHTMARE STORY
Wednesday, January 25th at 8pm
Saturday, January 28th at 8pm
Sunday, January 29th at 2:30pm
Tickets: $25
The first company in the history of the NYC Fringe Festival to win top honors two years running, PigPen Theatre Co. continues to wow The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Time Out New York, The Boston Globe, Backstage and more. The Nightmare Story features PigPen’s signature blend of storytelling, live folk music, shadow puppetry, resourceful staging, and clever technical effects. http://www.PigPenTheatre.com
NEW YORK NEO-FUTURISTS: THE COMPLETE AND CONDENSED STAGE DIRECTIONS OF EUGENE O’NEILL, Volume One: Early Plays/Lost Plays
Thursday, January 26th at 8pm
Friday, January 27th at 8pm
Saturday, January 28th at 5pm
Tickets: $20
Once confined only to heated discussions amongst doctoral students, the New York Neo-Futurists unleash O'Neill's stage directions from their dissertation prison, transforming O'Neill's eloquent yet obsessive and often controlling stage directions into rip-roaring physical comedy.
John Clancy: THE PIANO STORE PLAYS
Saturday, January 28th at 10pm
Sunday, January 29th at 5pm
Tickets: $15
John Clancy, Kevin Pariseau, and Nancy Walsh perform ANYONE - A love story on stage; FALLING OUT - A marriage ends; and SOLO FOR SPOON AND BIRDCAGE - A metatheatrical ballet of ineptitude with singing and loud noises. These plays were first performed in the early 90s at the Piano Store on the Lower East Side, as part of the formation of The Present Company, and are now being published January 2012: www.indietheaternow.com
Tickets for all shows in the Fortnight 0.5 Series can be purchased online at www.smarttix.com; on the phone at (212) 868-4444, or in person at the Barrow Street Theatre box office, open 1pm daily.
