| Dear Friend of Flux
We have chosen our season for 2008! We will begin in the spring with Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, continue in the summer with August Schulenburg's Other Bodies, and end with Johnna Adams' Angel Eaters trilogy. We hope you will be a part of this exciting season of transformation.
Also, we're thrilled that the first ever Bar Series, Have Another, kicked off November 5 to a packed house! Thanks to all who came out and remember, our next Have Another will be Monday, January 7, 2008.
We are also gearing up for our first Food:Soul Potluck Reading this Sunday, December 2. This event is sold out, but the next Food:Soul is planned for Sunday, February 24, 2008, so save the date.
Additionally, Flux is looking for actors and designers for our 2008 season. Information on how to submit your resume is below.
Have a safe and wonderful holiday season and we'll see you in the New Year.
Flux Theatre Ensemble |
Flux Theatre Ensemble is pleased to announce our 2008 season!
We begin in the spring with Shakespeare's classic comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream, followed in the summer by August Schulenburg's haunting tragedy, Other Bodies, and finish in the fall with Johnna Adams' divinely wild Angel Eaters trilogy.
Why these plays? Because they all wrestle in their own unique way with the mystery of how life transforms the body.
Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is rightfully considered one of his most warm and humorous plays, but it is also a subtly troubling exploration of the instability of our bodies. The characters find their hearts and bodies transformed against their will, and though in the end Jack will have Jill, no one walks away from this bottomless dream unchanged.
The warm-hearted vision of Midsummer becomes a fever dream in August Schulenburg's Other Bodies. The playwright of last year's FringeNYC Village Voice Audience Favorite, Riding the Bull, returns with the story of Terry, a notorious player whose pursuit of a mysterious woman leads to obsession and violence. What begins as a seductive battle of the sexes deepens into a haunting parable of the way our bodies betray us.
While Midsummer blurs the line between man and animal, and Other Bodies charts the distance between woman and man, Johnna Adams' Angel Eaters expands into more celestial transformations. Flux will develop this trilogy as it follows a family cursed through generations with the gift of raising the dead. The borders of Heaven and Hell are transgressed as demons masquerade as angels, angels pursue their own uncertain agendas, and even the sweetest mortals grow horns.
Join us in 2008 as Flux journeys through these deeply human and uniquely theatrical plays of transformation. | |
| Calling all Actors and Designers |
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As we prepare for the 2008 Theatre Season, we are looking for actors and designers not only for our three major productions, but also the many readings surrounding the productions, as well as our Bar Series, Have Another, and our Potluck Series, Food:Soul.
If you are an actor who would like to submit a headshot and resume, please email our Artistic Director, August Schulenburg, at gus@fluxtheatre.org. You can also send a hardcopy to:
August Schulenburg
c/o Theatre Communications Group
520 8th Ave, 24th Floor
New York, NY 10018-4156
If you are a designer (lighting, costume, sound, stage manager, etc) and would like to submit a resume, please email our Production Manager, Jason Paradine, at jason@fluxtheatre.org. |
| Flux's Food:Soul Reminder |
Just a reminder that Flux's Inaugural Potluck Reading Series, Food:Soul, is kicking off this Sunday with Adam Sczymkowicz's Pretty Theft, directed by Heather Cohn. Thanks to all the indie theatre leaders who have reserved a spot at our table.
We are at capacity for this event, but save the date for our next Food:Soul, Sunday, February 24, 2008. |
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OUR MISSION
Flux Theatre Ensemble uses the transformative freedom of theatre to re-imagine the boundaries of human connection.
Through new, classic and community-based work, we explore the surprising evolutions of the human spirit. Our plays are character-driven, globally-engaged and uniquely theatrical.
Through continuous collaboration, Flux will grow an ensemble of multi-faceted theatre professionals whose work will continue to challenge, delight and transform our community.
August Schulenburg, Artistic Director
Kelly O'Donnell, Executive Director
Heather Cohn, Managing and Development Director
Candice Holdorf, Marketing Director
Jason Paradine, Production Manager
Tiffany Clementi, Core Member
Joe Mathers, Founding Member
Associate Members
Jake Alexander
Felicia Hudson
Christina Shipp
Isaiah Tanenbaum
Cotton Wright |
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| Save the Date to Have Another |
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Thanks to all who came out on Monday, November 5 to join in launching Flux's new bar series, Have Another. We packed 72 guests into the back room of Jimmy's No. 43 and welcomed members from many theatre companies, including Blue Box, Core, Disgraced Productions, Impetuous and Stages on the Sound.
If you missed the fun last time, you are in luck! Our next Have Another is scheduled for
Monday, January 7, 2008.
So after the fruitcake is eaten, the Menorah is extinguished and the presents returned, head on over to Jimmy's No. 43 and Have Another with us!
Details coming soon... |
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