10,000 Things
The world premiere of a new play, written and directed by Erik Ehn.
OCTOBER 20-29
10,000 Things production photos
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An exploration of the limits of mercy and extent of distraction in a busy age. How do we care for the things that need tending? How do we wake up our eyes? At the center of the process: text + shadows... shadow puppetry, shadows as design elements, and - shadow as cultural erasure. A multi-part experiment in process-driven theatre, 10,000 Things by acclaimed playwright Erik Ehn is an ensemble-based exercise in contemplative theatre that unlike anything else. Erik Ehn is an American playwright and director known for proposing the Regional Alternative Theatre movement. His work includes The Saint Plays, Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling, Maria Kizito, No Time Like the Present, Wolf at the Door, Tailings, Beginner, Ideas of Good and Evil, and an adaptation of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury. He is an artistic associate at San Francisco's Theatre of Yugen, most recently writing Crazy Horse for them, which combined Noh forms with Native American music and dance. His plays have been produced in San Francisco (Intersection, Thick Description, Yugen), Seattle (Annex, Empty Space), Austin (Frontera), New York (BACA, Whitney Museum), San Diego (Sledgehammer), Chicago (Red Moon), and elsewhere; he has a longstanding collaborative relationship with the Undermain Theater in Dallas. He is co-founder of the Tenderloin Opera Company in San Francisco and Providence and the former dean of theater at CalArts, the California Institute of Arts. Today he is head of playwriting and professor of theatre and performance studies at Brown University. |
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CREATIVE TEAM10,000 Things
Written and directed by Erik Ehn Shadow Puppets by Erik Ruin Set Design by Monica Shinn Light & Sound Design by Andy Russ Music by Maya Solovey Movement Coordinator Katrina Pavao Puppetry Consultant David Higgins Production Manager Kate Kataja Stage Management by Liz Oakley |
CALENDAR OF PERFORMANCESThursday, October 20, 7:30pm
Friday, October 21, 7:30pm Saturday, October 22, 7:30pm Thursday, October 27, 7:30pm Friday, October 28, 7:30pm Saturday, October 29, 7:30pm |
10,000 Things in rehearsal
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