The Orpheus Variations Cast Photo
Posted by Adam J. Thompson on August 5th, 2010
A quick shot of our wonderful cast following the evening’s rehearsal.
The Cast of “The Orpheus Variations”
Posted by Adam J. Thompson on July 11th, 2010
Kendall Rileigh Chris Carpenter Zenzele Cooper
as Eurydice as Orpheus as Persephone
We’re excited and proud to announce our cast for the world-premeire of “The Orpheus Variations”!
Bookmark deconstructivetheatreproject.org to stay up to date on the cast and their creative process via blog entries, photos, and online videos.
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Posted by Adam J. Thompson on June 29th, 2010
A Benefit for The Deconstructive Theatre Project
Tickets available online by clicking below
UNDERWORLD
at The House of Yes
342 Maujer Street
Brooklyn
Doors at 8:00 PM
Performances Commence at 9:00 PM
Dancing Ever After
$15 in advance
$20 at the door
$50 premium package
[featuring premium seating for aerial performances, complimentary drinks, and gift bag]
Bored with the cushioned confines of Mount Olympus, a dissolute band of gods decides to go slumming in Hell….
An evening of Olympic-sized debauchery featuring aerial silk, trapeze, and live music performances by:
Kae Burke, Ryan Homsey, Adam Hussein, Nicki Miller, Danielle Natoli, Kendall Rileigh,
Adam Scott, The Shivers, Bronwyn Sims, Adam J. Thompson & Ben Williams
with dj scot bowman keeping you dancing all night and specialty drinks by andriana santiago
Party Committee
Mitch Dean, Crys Huyett, Arielle Lever,
Nicki Miller, Jon Mark Ponder, Andriana Santiago & Adam J. Thompson
In partnership with The Sky Box and Quiet Color
All proceeds support the development of
The Deconstructive Theatre Project’s The Orpheus Variations, premiering in September 2010.
Party Committee
Mitch Dean, Crys Huyett, Arielle Lever,
Nicki Miller, Jon Mark Ponder, Andriana Santiago & Adam J. Thompson
Veritas
Posted by Adam J. Thompson on June 29th, 2010
Coming to the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival
The Deconstructive Theatre Project
is proud to be an associate producer of
directed by Ryan J. Davis
with original music by Rachel Peters
and dramaturgy by DTP Founding Director, Adam J. Thompson
In the spring of 1920, a Harvard undergraduate’s suicide unearthed a hidden homosexual subculture among the student population of the university. Grief-stricken and demanding justice, his family brought two incriminating letters to the attention of Harvard’s legendary president, Lawrence Lowell, who hastily assembled a team of deans to expurgate these “sexual deviants” before they infected other students on campus. Inspired by these events, VERITAS is the tragic story of the bright-futured boys whose lives fell prey to a family’s desire for revenge and an august institution’s reckless pursuit of the Truth.
For more information on “Veritas”, visit the production’s official website, veritastheplay.com.
To support the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival production with a tax-deductible donation, click here.
A Message From Board Member, Ryan J. Davis
Posted by Adam J. Thompson on April 25th, 2010
Dear Friends,
As you probably know, The Deconstructive Theatre Project has grown a lot during the past two years that I’ve served on the Board of Directors. We’ve produced successful readings, workshops and fundraisers, always continually expanding our family. It’s been great meeting and working with many of you and I expect to see the rest of you at an event soon.
Can you help us quickly right now?
One of our main goals in 2010 is to grow the DTP online community and we need your help. Forward this message to your friends and ask them to join us. For every new email address we collect over the next week, I’m donating $1 to DTP. Just join our email list my using the box to the left and send this message along to your friends and you’ll help us raise money and increase awareness.
Need another reason to forward this? We’re holding auditions for our upcoming project The Orpheus Variations. Forward this to your actor friends and help them get an audition.
Remember, I’m only doing the $1 email pledge for one week, so please forward this along today.
Thanks for your support,
Ryan J. Davis
Board of Directors
The Deconstructive Theatre Project
PS: Make sure you share this letter on Facebook & Twitter!
Ryan and Adam working together on “Lilies” in 2009
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Posted by Adam J. Thompson on March 30th, 2010
Today, my good friend Mitch Dean sent to me a quote from the film “The Education of Charlie Banks”, noting that the short dialogue reminded him of my interests as a director and the work of The Deconstructive Theatre Project. The quote is really quite spot-on regarding how I choose to approach the creation of a work and my on-going interest in point of view and notions of “truth” across history. I’d like to share the quote here.
As one character asks another what “deconstruction” is, the second responds as follows:
“It’s like, he’s takes something apart, right? And you see all of it’s threads. You see that all of these threads have different meanings and examine how these meanings were imposed upon these threads. I guess, you kind of reveal all the contradictions and inconsistencies and you see that there’s no one truth expressed; there is no one absolute truth.”
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Posted by Adam J. Thompson on November 29th, 2009
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Chase Community Giving Program
Posted by Adam J. Thompson on November 27th, 2009
We’re a part of the new Chase Community Giving Program! Please visit our site by clicking on the image above and voting for us with your Facebook account. The not-for-profits which receive the highest number of votes will each receive $25,000 toward their work!
We could create some super-fly theatre with that. ;-)
Thank you!
The Lower East Sideshow
Posted by Adam J. Thompson on November 3rd, 2009
Please join us on Sunday evening, November 22, 2009 for The Deconstructive Theatre Project’s Autumn Benefit Party, THE LOWER EAST SIDESHOW.
Hosted by DTP and The Delancey Lounge, “The Lower East Sideshow” is a a carnival romp through a wide variety of music, dance and solo performances – including appearances by Billboard Recording Artist Ari Gold (http://www.arigold.com), Passing Strange and A Boy and His Soul’s Colman Domingo (http://www.colmandomingo.com), Street Lights’s Kevin Curtis and Kristen Starks, music duo Claudo & I (http://www.danielkoren.net & http://www.claudiovibes.com), Caligula composer and rock pianist Eric Svejcar, and dance-theatre artist Kimberley Wong.
Performances will be on-going throughout the evening, beginning at 8:30 PM (doors open at 8:00 PM), with a casual view-party-and-chat atmosphere.
The bar will be slinging 2 FOR 1 DRINKS all night, and the evening’s silent auction will feature Broadway and off-Broadway theatre tickets, aerial corde lisse and silk lessons, vocal coaching, original art, and more.
$10 at the door – all proceeds support DTP’s current project, “The Orpheus Variations”.
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Posted by Adam J. Thompson on March 23rd, 2009
We’ve been integrating a healthy dose of talk about color schemes lately, including an exploration of the invention of color TV, and a specific 1950s technicolor palette juxtaposed with black and white imagery. Here are some inspirational materials of which we’ve taken note:
I have a preoccupation with the use of drenched and saturated color-schemes,
especially as used in early television broadcasts. The documentary “Radio Bikini” is a good example of this.
Jenn was drawn to the reds and blues in the above two images.
