If any of you longtime Brooklynites would like to contribute your observations to a theatre project about the changing face of Brooklyn, please, please, please email me at: jordanfyoung@gmail.com.
Here's what it's all about:
BROOKLYN AT EYE LEVEL is a theater project that explores large scale development and community change in Brooklyn, focusing on the proposed Atlantic Yards Project and its surrounding neighborhoods. This fall a company of actors and director Steve Cosson will be conducting interviews and immersing themselves in community life. The company will be speaking to representatives from all sides of the various issues in an effort to understand a wide diversity of perspectives. At the same time, a group of artists including playwrights Lucy Thurber and Carl Hancock Rux, composer Michael Friedman and the dance company Urban Bush Women will work with neighborhood residents to explore the changing face of central Brooklyn.
This first phase of work will culminate in a week of performances at the Brooklyn Lyceum, December 4th – 7th. Ultimately, the research will form the basis for a full-length play . BROOKLYN AT EYE LEVEL is a project of The Civilians, a company the specializes in creating original theater from investigations into real life. Similar projects include "This Beautiful City," which premiered last year at the 2008 Humana Festival of New Plays and will be produced this winter at the Vineyard Theater in New York, and *Gone Missing *which recently enjoyed a seven-month Off-Broadway run at the Barrow Street Theatre.
For more information: www.brooklynateyelevel.org, www.thecivilians.org
If any of you longtime Brooklynites would like to contribute your observations to a theatre project about the changing face of Brooklyn, please, please, please email me at: jordanfyoung@gmail.com.
Here's what it's all about:
BROOKLYN AT EYE LEVEL is a theater project that explores large scale development and community change in Brooklyn, focusing on the proposed Atlantic Yards Project and its surrounding neighborhoods. This fall a company of actors and director Steve Cosson will be conducting interviews and immersing themselves in community life. The company will be speaking to representatives from all sides of the various issues in an effort to understand a wide diversity of perspectives. At the same time, a group of artists including playwrights Lucy Thurber and Carl Hancock Rux, composer Michael Friedman and the dance company Urban Bush Women will work with neighborhood residents to explore the changing face of central Brooklyn.
This first phase of work will culminate in a week of performances at the Brooklyn Lyceum, December 4th – 7th. Ultimately, the research will form the basis for a full-length play . BROOKLYN AT EYE LEVEL is a project of The Civilians, a company the specializes in creating original theater from investigations into real life. Similar projects include "This Beautiful City," which premiered last year at the 2008 Humana Festival of New Plays and will be produced this winter at the Vineyard Theater in New York, and *Gone Missing *which recently enjoyed a seven-month Off-Broadway run at the Barrow Street Theatre.
For more information: www.brooklynateyelevel.org, www.thecivilians.org
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