Making artful use of what’s at hand, Bricolage uses the distinctive resources of the Pittsburgh region to create theatrical events that stimulate a heightened sense of involvement for the audience.
| Floating Under Water | |
| France-Luce Benson | May 18th - 19th, 2008 |
May 18th and 19th 8PM
Floating Under Water
By France-Luce Benson
Directed by Kathleen Amshaw
FREE at Bricolage 937 Liberty Avenue 1st floor
On a remote island where lust and fantasy are sold, a young Haitian woman sets out on a journey to uncover the truth of her dark past. She is guided by a Goddess of the sea into a lush world of haunting and healing images that propel her to rise above the surface of emotional bondage, giving birth to an inner strength that had been silenced for years. Using the language of Haitain folklore, surreal imagery, and brutal realism, Floating Underwater is a story of redemption, empowerment, and forgiveness.
| Bricolage’s 2008 Staged Reading Performance Series | |
| Each production is free and open to the public. | March 30th - August 25th 2008 |
Committed to our vision of staging new works and re-imagined classics, we are back with a brand new line-up of dynamic plays. Beginning in March and continuing each month thereafter through August, Bricolage will showcase a play a month. The directors, actors and designers are given a week to rehearse their piece and will present, with book-in-hand, the staged reading performance for two evenings, a Sunday and Monday, in our space at 937 Liberty Avenue FIRST FLOOR. Each production is free and open to the public.
Pick Your Play
Just like last year, what makes this series unique is the audience participation. At the end of this six-month series, through an internet survey, we will ask YOU to choose which play you would most like to see fully realized. Whichever play receives the most enthusiastic response will become a future Bricolage production.
March 30th and 31st 8PM
Midnight Radio
Conceived and Developed by Bricolage
FREE at Bricolage 937 Liberty Avenue 1st floor
Part “Rocky Horror Picture Show”, part “Prairie Home Companion” Bricolage introduces Midnight Radio. Featuring classic radio dramas and comedy sketches, music, live foley sound effects, and an audience rant box, this dynamic evening is sure to take you back to the days when radio was king and your imagination was your own.
April 27th and 28th 8PM
Woman From the Past
By Roland Schimmelpfennig
Directed by Melanie Dryer
FREE at Bricolage 937 Liberty Avenue 1st floor
On the eve of a new life overseas, Frank sits surrounded by moving boxes. He has everything, a beautiful wife, a happy son, a great job. Until he opens his front door and discovers a long forgotten high school sweetheart, who has returned to collect on a promise he made 24 years ago.
May 18th and 19th 8PM
Floating Under Water
By France-Luce Benson
Directed by Kathleen Amshaw
FREE at Bricolage 937 Liberty Avenue 1st floor
On a remote island where lust and fantasy are sold, a young Haitian woman sets out on a journey to uncover the truth of her dark past. She is guided by a Goddess of the sea into a lush world of haunting and healing images that propel her to rise above the surface of emotional bondage, giving birth to an inner strength that had been silenced for years. Using the language of Haitain folklore, surreal imagery, and brutal realism, Floating Underwater is a story of redemption, empowerment, and forgiveness.
June 29th and 30th 8PM
Stroke
Written and Directed by David Turkel
FREE at Bricolage 937 Liberty Avenue 1st floor
A wealthy gentleman’s sudden illness puts pressure on his daughter’s marriage prospects. But when one of the young girl’s suitors runs screaming from the house, her mother begins to wonder if the family’s future rests in the hands of a monster. Resident playwright David Turkel takes us into the world of Europe in the fin de siecle-- an era where gender politics, psychology, and eroticism are all poised on the brink of explosion.
July 27th and 28th 8PM
Troilus and Cressida
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Jeffrey Carpenter
FREE at Bricolage 937 Liberty Avenue 1st floor
“Lechery, lechery, still wars and lechery; nothing else holds fashion” - Thersites
It is the seventh year of the siege of Troy by Agamemnon and his Greeks. The conflict is at a stalemate and dissension is growing in both camps. By turns shocking, uproarious, and impassioned Troilus and Cressida is a bitterly satirical, thoroughly modern exploration of politics, brutality, vanity, double standards, and doomed love played out against the background of a senseless war which no one seems to know how to bring to an end.
August 24th and 25th 8PM
Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom
by Jennifer Haley
Directed by Matt M. Morrow
FREE at Bricolage 937 Liberty Avenue 1st floor
In a suburban subdivision with identical houses, parents find their teenagers addicted to an online horror video game. The game setting? A subdivision with identical houses. The goal? Smash through an army of zombies to escape the neighborhood for good. But as the line blurs between virtual and reality, both parents and players realize that fear has a life of its own.
