Veritas Opening Night

The Deconstructive Theatre Project is happy to be an associate producer of Veritas at this year’s New York International Fringe Festival.  Founding Director Adam J. Thompson also lent a hand as the production’s Dramaturg.

Congratulations to all of our colleagues and friends involved!

Click the image for today’s Playbill.com article on the production’s opening night!

A Message From Board Member, Ryan J. Davis

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

Deconstruction

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.”

Painting for the Orpheus Variations

I’ve been doing a series of paintings inspired by our current project “Orpheus Variations”.  This one is inspired by our attempt to create Persephone in the Underworld during workshop.  We saw Persephone as towering, elegant, and able to see memories by touching and smelling old photographs.

To see more of my work inspired by “The Orpheus Variations”, click here.

Liz Duffy, Core Artist

The Lower East Sideshow

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”.

Welcome

Welcome to The Deconstructive Theatre Project’s Community Engagement Blog!

As a part of our mission, we seek to fully involve our community and audience in our creative process. This blog is the first step in realizing this goal, and will serve as a window into our rehearsal room and into the thoughts of our ensemble during the creation of new work.

I encourage you to dialogue with us by leaving comments and sharing your own suggestions as we continue to find unique ways to expand the artist/community conversation.

Stay tuned…!