The folks at Blue Coyote Theatre Group are up to their old antics.
This is the theatre company that has made a name for themselves mostly through fine productions of plays by indie favorites David Johnston and Matthew Freeman. This time last year they had a breakout production with David's Oresteia, simultaneously winning ecstatic and scalding reviews (you can't beg that kind of press). But they've been producing David for years, having mounted then remounted Busted Jesus Comix (Mike Diana actually attended one of the performances of the revival!) as well as Phone Call from Washington State Late at Night, Saturday with Martin, Leaving Tangier and Funeral Home in Brooklyn. I also remember, with terrific respect, a gorgeous evening of one of Matthew's works called The Americans. In it, a poem is created that is so beautiful that, upon completion, the building that houses it (and indeed, the entire neighborhood) explodes, hurtling at least one innocent bystander into a sublime heaven. Now, that's my kinda play!
Late in 2006 they did the Standards of Decency Project. Intended, I think, to challenge the sensibilities of the audience, it was actually a pretty tame collection of small, occasionally naked, commissioned playlets, much more silly and adorable than button-pushing. It sounds like they've embraced that mantle of entertainment in the upcoming Happy Endings, incorporating most of the same playwrights they used in the Decency project for an evening about sex workers. I expect James Joycean spewing go-go boys.
It opens February 12 and runs for three weeks through March 1. For tickets go to http://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?showCode=BLU9
(Photos: top, Happy Endings, 2008; right, Vince Gatton in The Americans, 2004; bottom, Bob Buckwalter and Tracey Gilbert in A Funeral Home in Brooklyn, 2006)
7 comments:
Go go boys! Right on. You one of them? (I hope I hope I hope)
xoxoxo
Jack
Oh, Jack. While my days dancing on bar tops in an official capacity are behind me, I could be induced were it to raise funds for a worthy cause (like the homeless or autisim).
Is this a gay theatre group?
Not by mission, though much of their work though the years has had a decidedly gay, um, bent. There are four founders, two gay, straight. I don't think they take open submissions.
So is the poster a vintage foto of you?
T'isn't I --- I always had pecs.
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