The experience of being an audience member can be kind of alienating, caught behind the fourth wall. But every once in awhile along comes a performance that can truly feel intimate, in which a person communicates their ideas to the audience with breathtaking efficacy…. (read more)
“Cry of the Mountain” at the Capital Fringe Festival, 2011
Buy Tickets: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/844515
ADELIND HORAN’S CRY OF THE MOUNTAIN — a documentary play about the people who live with Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining in Appalachia. Conceived and performed by Adelind Horan. Real storie from America’s Coal Fields. At the Capital Fringe Festival.
When:
Saturday July 9 @2:30pm
Tuesday July 12 @ 8pm
Friday July 15 @ 8:30pm
Saturday July 16 @ 4:30pm
Saturday July 23 @ 8pm
Where:
FORT FRINGE – The Shop
607 New York Avenue, NW
Show Information:
To watch video: http://wholetheatre.org/mountain
To view Press Release and image from this show: http://shows.capfringe.org/shows/556-Adelind-Horan–Whole-Theatre-Cry-of-the-Mountain.html
One performer, thirteen characters. Verbatim portrayals of real people from interviews conducted by the artist while volunteering with coal related clean up in the mountains of West Virginia and Kentucky. Miners, Mining Executives, Scientists, Mountaineers, Hillbillies, Environmentalists, Protestors and more. Bluegrass Music and Homemade Cookies at Every Show!
Cry of the Mountain, Reviews/Quotes:
“It’s like an Anna Deavere Smith show… with a banjo.” – RadioIQ/NPR-Talk
“A fantastic talent.” – The Daily Progress
“Comparisons to the early stage work of John Leguizamo are inevitable.” – C-ville Weekly
Press Contacts:
Laura Gross, Capital Fringe
202-265-5383, c: 202-255-2054
laura@capitalfringe.org
Ebony Dumas, Capital Fringe
202-737-7230
communications@capitalfringe.org
Ray Nedzel, Whole Theatre
434-249-8444
ray@wholetheatre.org
Adelind is 23, and has been performing since she was 4 – having been raised by actors.
CRY OF THE MOUNTAIN is her second original, documentary-styled one woman show.
Adelind Horan and Ray Nedzel are available for interviews.
Ray@wholetheatre.org or 434-249-8444
Mountaintop Removal is the process of blowing up the mountain to get the coal underneath. For more information on Mountaintop Removal, please go towww.iLoveMountains.org
Andrew Cedermark, Arts Editor for the C-ville Weekly, came to CrazyBusy and got a good, fast, dose of theatrical WTF.
Oh, why are we writing for a writer, here: read his words…. (first 1/3 of full article below).
Full, Original Article: http://www.c-ville.com/Article/Feedback_Column/Play_it_33_times_fast
Play it 33 times fast:Fast-paced plays help send Cry of the Mountain to Edinburgh |
|
BY ANDREW CEDERMARK |
|
It was a big night. Bobo the Mime walked his invisible dog Pinky for the last time. Two dudes shared an emotional breakthrough while watching a football game on TV. A young widow paid an unpleasant visit to her former mother-in-law’s. A date between two puppies went south after it emerged one was not pure Beagle, as was earlier suggested.
These were some of the shorts performed at CrazyBusy, a manic theater event hosted last weekend by Whole Theatre at Live Arts. In it, a team of 12 actors performed 33 original two-minute pieces over the course of less than an hour. The performances were a fundraiser for a batch of locals hoping to cover the considerable cost of staging Cry of the Mountain, Adelind Horan’s one-woman documentary play about mountaintop removal, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, next month in Scotland. As director (and Cry of the Mountain producer) Ray Nedzel explained while introducing CrazyBusy, playwrights generally spend a lot of time writing, and then even more time fielding rejection letters. But in the spirit of the unjuried Edinburgh Fringe—which claims to be the largest arts fest in the world—Nedzel’s call for scripts was, “I don’t care what you write. We’ll do it.” As must be the case in Edinburgh, you wouldn’t expect to see a string of 33 plays and have them all to be great. But because of its relentless pace, with one scene blending into the next, CrazyBusy remained exciting. For “Show Tunes Urinal,” written by the ensemble, local stage regular Nick Heiderstadt simply walked up to a urinal, unzipped and started singing “Jesus Christ Superstar.” It became an awkward moment as Napoleon Tavale ripped into an intense dramatic short called “Pelican,” by the local playwright Robert Wray. Full Original Article: http://www.c-ville.com/Article/Feedback_Column/Play_it_33_times_fast |
Cry of the Mountain — with special guest performances: CrazyBusy* and Pregnant Again!**
Live Arts, Upstage
June 23, 24, 25 at 8pm; June 26 at 2:15pm
See it early; see it often: Tickets from $5 to $50 dollars.
A Fundraising Event to send Cry of the Mountain to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
* CRAZY/BUSY: 33 plays in 55 minutes. Written by local writers and performed by local actors.
** Pregnant Again!: The R. Kelly Monologues are R. Kelly lyrics delivered verbatim as performance art monologues — directed by Mendy St. Ours. Explicit Lyrics Warning. Explicit Laughter Warning.
Cry of the Mountain is present with generous support from Live Arts.
Live Arts, Forging Theatre and Community.
www.livearts.org
And with sponsorship from the Piedmont Council for the Arts.
Connect. Engage. Explore. Learn.
www.http://charlottesvillearts.org/
We, we, we so excited! We so excited!
Look at this line up of on stage talent. Actors for CrazyBusy. Folks who signed up to perform the plays of local playwrights without even knowing what the plays would be.
Oh, and not just one play, 33 plays in 55 minutes.
Wow. Doff your hats in respect.
CrazyBusy Actors:
Well, smack down in the middle of wonderful you’ll find these plays and monologues by 24 locally sourced playwrights.
This is the line up, but not necessarily the order for Crazy Busy, June, 2011
Oh, my, oh, my….
We are still sorting through and ordering all of the plays that were submitted, but we can tell you, with full certainty, that the playwrights represented in this Crazy Busy Summer 2011 are some of the finest playwrights in Jefferson’s Virginia.
Rock on and read this list of scriptwriting gorgeousness:
Alex GrubbsLooking to get in, we still have a few actor slots and crew positions open. Get a hold a ray at ray@wholetheatre.org
See you there.
Cry of the Mountain at the Capital Fringe.
From http://www.lynchburgsbestkeptsecrets.com/2011/04/the-blue-ridge-summer-theatre-festival/
Food, wine, live music, and theatre. A perfect combination.
Summer is approaching in Virginia, and with it comes the return of a unique annual event that until now has remained a secret to some, but a favorite to many. Located amidst the picturesque Sweet Briar College campus, Endstation Theatre Company’s Blue Ridge Summer Theatre Festival offers a summer-long schedule of innovative dramatic productions and outdoor theatrical fun. Whether you are a musical theatre junkie, a parent with kids to enrich and entertain, or a lover of food and wine, the festival offers events to please your palate.
This seasons’s events will be kicked-off with the benefit concert Broadway in the Blue Ridge on May 22 featuring Broadway’s Phantom of the Opera star Sean MacLaughlin. Virginia native and now Raoul in Phantom at the Majestic Theater, Sean comes to Sweet Briar to perform songs from Broadway classics alongside members of the Endstation cast of Assassins, as well as EC Glass High School’s own Phantom production. It is sure to be an exciting night filled with talent and surprises. Read more about Sean in his latest Playbill Article.
Full Article Here:
http://www.lynchburgsbestkeptsecrets.com/2011/04/the-blue-ridge-summer-theatre-festival/
The second festival production, Whole Theatre’s Cry of the Mountain, is an original piece that tackles the issue of mountaintop coal removal in Appalachian coal country. Accompanied by live music, creator Adelind Horan performs pieces constructed from interviews with individuals whose lives are affected in some way by coal removal. June 9 – 11 @7pm, June 12 @ 2pm
I’d like for the monologues and plays to be written and re-written (if not re-re-written) before the submission.
We may (likely will) ask for rewrites along the way, but naturally you will remain the final say on the text and the owner/copyright owner of the script. We will use parts, segments and even whole plays as clips and advertising.
I have seen in very short plays – a one shot gimmick. That’s OK, but I say, try not to rely on the gimmick. Raise the stakes, raise the comedy, rewrite the entire script. Have someone read it back to you. Why here, why now? I’m not fully sure what the outcome will be but I’d like it to be fun and funny and awesome and reveling and real.
Bring it,
Thanks,
Ray
/Mountain_PressPhoto_002.jpg)