MeanWeill: Berlin to Broadway (via Paris...)

A show based on the songs of Kurt Weill

info & dates: https://tinyurl.com/MeanWeill

Extract from "2⅛" by Cinémorphe at Les Bains, Paris.

Cinémorphe 2⅛ : press conference

Cinémorphe invite you to an exceptional press review of Guido Anselmi's next cinematic masterpiece TWO AND AN EIGHTH (shooting soon at an exclusive setting). Sig. Anselmi will answer journalist's questions at 10 rue Bichat in Paris' 10th arrondissement at 7 pm sharp on May 26th 2018. RSVP to info@cinemorphe.org.

Cinémorphe vous invite pour un RDV PRESSE exceptionnel avec Guido Anselmi pour presenter son nouveau chef d'œuvre cinématographique TWO AND AN EIGHTH (tournage prochainement dans un cadre exclusif à Paris). Sig. Anselmi répondra à vos questions à 19h pile le samedi 26 mai à Paris, 10 rue Bichat, 75010. RSVP sur info@cinemorphe.org.

Romilly Walton Masters Performance Award

Recovery, 7-8 Dec., 2017 at the
Irish Cultural Center, Paris.
Photo © Keith Dixon.

The inaugural production of the Romilly Walton Masters Performance Award will take place at the Centre Culturel Irlandais on 7 and 8 December. The 2017 award winner is Zoe Ní Riordáin, for Recovery.

Romilly Walton Masters Performance Award

To our Irish friends (including those in France) from the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris:

Through the generosity of the Walton Masters family, we are delighted to announce this new funded award established in memory of the late director, producer and scriptwriter Romilly Walton Masters.
Open to performance practitioners, holding an Irish passport, normally resident in Ireland or France.
This award will support a one or two-night performance in CCI by an emerging performer or group working in the areas of experimental theatre, music, dance, film or visual art. The performance at CCI is to take place in late Spring or Autumn 2017.
The closing date for applications is Wednesday 11 January 2017, 5pm GMT.
To apply, go to http://www.centreculturelirlandais.com/en/residencies/bourses.

Nineteen Twenty Sixteen: Unto the Valley of the Back Pig by Cinémorphe

Cinémorphe, in association with the Centre Culturel Irlandais, present

NINETEEN TWENTY SIXTEEN UNTO THE VALLEY OF THE BLACK PIG

Thursday 5th, Friday 6th, Saturday 7th of May 2016, 7:30pm

Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris

www.centreculturelirlandais.com – +33 1 58 52 10 30
Reservations

NINETEEN TWENTY SIXTEEN marks the fifth presentation by Cinémorphe and its third collaboration with the Centre Culturel Irlandais. Based on an original concept by Romilly Walton Masters, NINETEEN TWENTY SIXTEEN is an immersive, site-specific theatre experience that transforms the Centre Culturel Irlandais into Dublin and France in 1916.

Inspired by historical events, ancient mythologies and the epic nature of human conflict, it follows the stories of two Dublin brothers and their divergent journeys. The audience is invited to participate actively in the performance, moving through different experiential worlds leading up to the explosive events that unfolded in the spring and summer of 1916. The performance is both a social commemoration and an incisive look into the human experience of rebellion, war, survival and compassion.

The event will be filmed as it unfolds throughout the different spaces of the historical Centre Culturel Irlandais, and at the end of the show there will be a projection of the film Cinémorphe and the audience have created together.

About Cinémorphe
Cinémorphe push the boundaries of immersive theatre by creating shows that are part performance, part installation and part social gatherings. The company place the audience at the heart of the action, inviting them to create, with the artists, experiences that contextualize and layer the work. The Paris-based Cinémorphe team consists of film and theatre directors, visual artists, sound artists, fashion designers, performance artists, musicians and dancers. We break down the distinction between performers and audience and create an environment in which all are invited to play across the artistic disciplines. We are an international company who perform in both English and French.

facebook.com/Cinemorphe

www.cinemorphe.org

Exhibition of the work of Romilly Walton Masters in Paris, 16-17 July

Cinémorphe present an exhibition of the work of their late artistic director, Romilly Walton Masters: writing, theatre and cinema.

16-17 July, 7pm, Irish Cultural Centre, Paris 75005.

For more information, go to facebook.com/Cinemorphe.

Cinémorphe - nouveau site Web - nouveau spectacle en janvier

Cinémorphe a son site, www.cinemorphe.org, et prépare un nouveau spectacle pour janvier, 4¼, inspirée par le chef d’oeuvre de Fellini, 8½.

Cinémorphe presents "Distant Music"

Cinémorphe presents Distant Music

Inspired by James Joyce’s short story, The Dead, Cinémorphe’s Distant Music invites you to step back in time, to Dublin at the turn of the 20th century. Experience the hopes and fears of the characters as they prepare for their grand Christmas party. Witness the dying of an epoch in a changing Dublin. Share the characters’ moving, intimate stories and explore the music, dance and politics of the day. This immersive theatre experience encourages you to inhabit the lives of the characters and, as the evening draws to a close, to celebrate with them the passing of time in the world you have created around you.

Cinémorphe is an international performance company based in Paris which consists of artists from all disciplines: actors, dancers, musicians, video and radio artists. Their last show was described by Figaroscope as ‘une soirée décapatante’.
Guests are invited, if possible, to dress or have accessories with some reference to this period.

12 - 13 December 13, 19.30
€12, reservation recommended, in English

Centre Culturel Irlandais
5, rue des Irlandais 75005 - Paris
Tel: 00 33 (0)1 58 52 10 30

RER B: Luxembourg station
(jardin du Luxembourg exit)
Metro: Line 10 - Cardinal Lemoine
Metro: Line 7 - Place Monge
Bus: 84, 21, 27 (nearby)
Public Parking: 22, rue Soufflot

De Diario De Los Luchadores

The latest from Michael Merino:

De Diario De Los Luchadores
In the style of a telenovela (or cartoon for adults/drunks) comes the story of two wrestlers – their loves, their passions and their tights. Cielito Lindo and Dirty Sanchez star in DE DIARIO DE LOS LUCHADORES, Mexico’s greatest story never told … until now. Mujeres picantes, hombres calientes, mariachi, the Virgen de Guadalupe, and mucho, mucho mas.
Written by Piso Mojado and directed by Kerri Rambow.
DE DIARIO benefits Ayuda.

Monday nights in October 2013 at the Bier Baron, 8 p.m.
1523 22nd Street NW, Washington DC 20037
Tel: 202-293-1887

Hemispheric Dysfunctionalism and the Cortical Titanic

The latest from Michael Merino:

Hemispheric Dysfunctionalism and the Cortical Titanic is a multidisciplinary performance piece that addresses the dichotomy between perception and cognition and the structures by which information is disseminated and interpreted. Using the incident of the Titanic's maiden voyage, the work explores the themes of intellectual and technological achievements and the foibles of the species.

With the ship itself as a metaphor for the damaged brain, the story illustrates the fragility of the human condition and the vainglorious attempts to subject nature, to surpass the deity, and to defy common sense. The work involves a large ensemble, musicians performing period-inspired music, vocalists and dancers.

"Squirrel, or the Origin of a Species" in Washington, D.C.

Michael Merino, whose Bad News Gospel and Seat Yourself have been performed by Est Paris Theater, has a show up in Washington, D.C. July 10-21, Squirrel, or the Origin of a Species, in Charles Darwin engages in a battle of wits with Sciurus carolinensis and struggles to order the universe while musing on matters trivial and insignificant.

Quartier Libre Orchestra, 20h30, 16 oct., 5 rue de la Révolution, Montreuil

Another soundpainting performance by the Quartier Libre Orchestra.

16 oct., 20h30
Comme vous émoi
5, rue de la Révolution, Montreuil

Soundpainting

Update - Perry will take part in two soundpainting performances:

Quartier Libre Orchestra
Ogresse, 4 rue des Prairies, 75020
Vendredi 1er octobre, 20h

Trafic dans le OFF de la NUIT BLANCHE
Direction : Beatriz Franco
Soundpainting sur les installations : "Au bord des larmes", de Françoise Anger et "Night Reflections", de Christiane Blanc
Samedi 2 octobre à 22h
Galerie Actuel'Art. 27 rue de la Forge Royale, 75011
M° Faidherbe-Chaligny / Ledru Rollin

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Perry is participating in a soundpainting performance April 9, 10 and 11.  Wikipedia says soundpainting is a "live composing sign language created by New York composer Walter Thompson for musicians, dancers, actors, poets, and visual artists working in the medium of structured improvisation."

Details on the show are on the Web site of the collective Trafic: http://trafic-co.com/index.php?p=1_12.

We may use soundpainting in a future Est Paris production.

"The Quick, Brown Fox Jumped Over the Lazy Dogs"

A play that Est Paris has planned on doing but hasn't gotten around to yet, Michael Merino's "The Quick, Brown Fox Jumped Over the Lazy Dogs," has had a successful debut at a Washington, DC, fringe festival.

DC Theater site:
"What do you get when you combine a talented group of actors, hermeneutics, diagrammed sentences, and thought-provoking deconstructionist dialogue? Aside from an entertaining and smart fifty minutes of theatre, you get a piece that actually delivers what it promises — an exploration of the individual’s relationship with language, and all the semantics, miscommunication, and mistakes that can be made along the way.
...
Smart, funny, and edgy–truly a delight."

Washington City Paper site:
"It’s the most fun and enjoyable hour of having your very concept of everyday life and communication knocked down and spat upon since David Ives’ All in the Timing."

The playwright's page

Pix from "Bad News Gospel"

Lari has put some photos from "Bad News Gospel" taken by Mattias D.

More on the Louvins

More on the Louvins on the excellent "Nashville or Bust" blog on the AV Club site.

"Bad News Gospel" and "Men in Uniform"

Est Paris Theater presented Men in Uniform by Antonio Garza and Bad News Gospel by Lari Lucien, Michael Merino and Perry Leopard on April 16 at the Ogresse: 4 rue des Prairies, Paris 20.

en français plus bas

Men in Uniform by Antonio Garza: In a one-person show, Antonio Garza, an American of Mexican heritage living in New Orleans, relives his post-9/11 experiences: from hilariously nerve-racking interrogations by customs agents and confrontations with overly enthusiastic flight attendants to detentions and an arrest by US Border Patrol agents. Men in Uniform was previously seen at the inaugural New Orleans Fringe theater festival.

Bad News Gospel, a short musical play by Est Paris Theater: Two gospel-singing preachers (Lari Lucien and Perry Leopard) who could be straight out of Flannery O'Connor's "Wise Blood" wait for judgment and debate whether it's better to be tormented with fire or with brimstone.







et en français

Est Paris Theater a presenté Men in Uniform par Antonio Garza et Bad News Gospel par Lari Lucien, Michael Merino et Perry Leopard le 16 avril à l'Ogresse : 4 rue des Prairies, Paris 20.

Men in Uniform par Antonio Garza: Antonio Garza, américain avec des origines mexicaines, raconte ses déboires avec les hommes en uniforme - les agents de douane et immigration surtout : des histoires drôles et révélatrices de l'Amérique de l'après-11 septembre. Men in Uniform a fait parti du premier festival de théâtre New Orleans Fringe.

Bad News Gospel une courte comédie-musicale par l'Est Paris Theater: Deux prêcheurs (Lari Lucien et Perry Leopard) qui pourraient être sortis du roman "La sagesse dans le sang" de Flannery O'Connor chantent du gospel et attendent le jugement dernier en débattant si c'est mieux d'être tourmenter avec le feu ou avec le soufre.

Gram Parson and the Louvins

There's an excellent post on the Onion's sister site AV Club that discusses two of the musical inspirations for Bad News Gospel: Gram Parsons and the Louvin brothers:

Sweetheart Of The Rodeo is a masterpiece, but it would have been even more masterpiecey had Parsons been allowed to sing lead on more of the songs. McGuinn has said that his vocals on Sweetheart Of The Rodeo were little more than a parody of Parsons’ original versions. Parsons approached country from a place of deep reverence, but McGuinn treats the songs with a certain academic detachment. This proves ruinous on a woefully misguided cover of The Louvin Brothers’ “The Christian Life,” where McGuinn adopts a Dippety Dog cartoon drawl that coats the song’s deeply personal endorsement of faith at the cost of worldly pleasure in smug irony. McGuinn seems to be making fun of the Louvin Brothers, which you just don’t do. You don’t fuck with them, for they have a scary, take-no-prisoners, smite-humanity-just-to-prove-a-point deity behind them.

Songs from "Bad News Gospel"

We're doing the songs from Bad News Gospel at the Petit Ney's anniversary party on March 21. (The full performance will be done at the Ogresse show.) There'll be lots of acts for the Petit Ney evening, and we expect to go on about 7 p.m.

Here's what we plan to do:
"Sin City" by Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman
"Memphis Train" by Lari
"Satan Is Real" by the Louvin Brothers
"Great Atomic Power" by the Louvin Brothers
"Trekkin' inna Babylon" by Lari

The Petit Ney date is March 21: info on the evening and the address, etc., is at http://lepetitney.free.fr/