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AS YOU LIKE IT at the Festival of Lies
A new and darkly reconfigured AS YOU LIKE IT that challenges our society's truth crisis at the Brick Theater's Festival of Lies in June 2018.
New York, US
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Cast and Creative Announced for AS YOU LIKE ITDoghouse Ensemble Theatre is proud to announce the cast for the workshop production of As You Like It by William Shakespeare as adapted and directed by Catherine Andre.The cast for this reimagined production will feature Kendall Cafaro, Nadia Diamond, Leah deGruchy, Nathalie Ellis-Einhorn, Moira McAuliffe, Will Thomae, and Jamie Wygle. The production is directed by Catherine Andre and will feature design elements contributed by Wesley Cornwell (Scenic Design), Megan Culley (Sound Design), Becky Heisler McCarthy (Lighting Design), and Somie Pak (Costume Design). Joanna Pisano serves as Production Stage Manager. The production is produced by The Brick Theater, Inc. and Doghouse Ensemble Theatre, and associate produced by Michael Liebhauser. Click here to find out more about the cast, creative team, and production. |
ABOUT THE PRODUCTION
Our dark and experimentally reimagined As You Like It examines our society's tenuous relationship to truth and reality building. Framed around the Forest of Arden as Rosalind’s fantastical response to trauma, this production will harness the storytelling power of a predominantly female cast to interrogate this "post-truth" era and consider how we all frame the world “as we like it.” It will be Shakespeare’s pastoral comedy like you have never seen it before, responding to our world where reality is comprised of cherrypicked “facts” that are truly nothing more than opinions.
Directed and produced by Catherine Andre and developed as part of Doghouse Ensemble Theatre’s Incubator Program (Mark Mazzarella, Julia Steenstra, Yoni Weiss; Artistic Directors) this workshop production has been accepted into the Brick Theater's Festival of Lies and we are asking for your support to participate in it. In June 2018, this multidisciplinary arts festival brings together all types of live performance to interrogate the nature of reality, truth and lies. While the Brick is supplying free performance space and a repertory lighting grid, we are seeking your help to cover the costs of rehearsal space, artist fees, set and costumes.
The team behind this reimagining is comprised of young theater artists from across the country who trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, The Juilliard School, NYU - Tisch, Carnegie Mellon, Princeton University, Interlochen Arts Academy and more. We have been holding weekly workshops since late 2017 to explore and reinvent the text, building a community of like-minded young creatives committed to using the power of live performance to respond to our contemporary moment.
YOUR DONATION
Your support will make it possible for us to participate in the Brick's Festival of Lies, sharing our new adaptation of As You Like It with an audience for the first time. Through this festival, the Brick has supplied us with a free performance space, a repertory lighting grid, publicity and storage space. We are asking for support in covering the costs of rehearsal space, design elements, and artist fees. Although we will receive significantly subsidized rehearsal space, our four-week rehearsal process will still require substantial support to cover the $16/hour charge. The Brick is supplying our lighting instruments, but we are responsible for procuring costumes, set pieces, and props to communicate the world of our play to the audience and create visual storytelling to accompany the text.
The final, significant aspect of our budget will go to artist fees. We as collaborators have decided that all members of the cast and creative team will receive the same compensation for our work, a commitment to communal and not-for-profit creation. We are all equal creators, contributing our expertise and experience towards reimagining Shakespeare's text into a relevant, experimental stage-poem that taps into our cultural insecurity about the truth. We will all be at the theater for each performance, loading in props, costumes and set pieces and striking it at the end of the performance to clear the space. Our As You Like It is a labor of love and creativity, communally imagined and communally made.
The final, significant aspect of our budget will go to artist fees. We as collaborators have decided that all members of the cast and creative team will receive the same compensation for our work, a commitment to communal and not-for-profit creation. We are all equal creators, contributing our expertise and experience towards reimagining Shakespeare's text into a relevant, experimental stage-poem that taps into our cultural insecurity about the truth. We will all be at the theater for each performance, loading in props, costumes and set pieces and striking it at the end of the performance to clear the space. Our As You Like It is a labor of love and creativity, communally imagined and communally made.
All donations are tax-deductible by the extent permitted by law.
Doghouse Ensemble Theatre is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non‐profit arts service organization. Contributions for the charitable purposes of Doghouse Ensemble Theatre must be made payable to “Fractured Atlas” and are tax‐deductible to the extent permitted by law.
Rewards
The Infant
Donate $16.00 or more
Amount is fully tax-deductible.
In As You Like It, Shakespeare writes that the first stage of man is "the infant, mewling and puking in his Nurse's arms."
Donate $16 and you will gift us an hour of rehearsal space at Spaceworks in Long Island City. Our program will cry out your name in thanks! All the world will know your generosity.
Donate $16 and you will gift us an hour of rehearsal space at Spaceworks in Long Island City. Our program will cry out your name in thanks! All the world will know your generosity.
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The Schoolboy
Donate $25.00 or more
Amount over $18.00 is tax-deductible.
In As You Like It, Shakespeare writes that the second stage of man is "the whining schoolboy, with his satchel and shining morning face, creeping like a snail unwillingly to school."
Donate $40.00 and you will gift us a day of rehearsal space. You'll get a lovely copy of the program inscribed by the entire cast and creative team, too.
Plus, all the above rewards!
Plus, all the above rewards!
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The Lover
Donate $60.00 or more
Amount over $36.00 is tax-deductible.
In As You Like It, Shakespeare writes that the third stage of man is "the lover, sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad made to his mistress' eyebrow."
Donate $60.00 and receive a complimentary ticket to the performance of your choice.
Plus, all the above rewards!
Donate $60.00 and receive a complimentary ticket to the performance of your choice.
Plus, all the above rewards!
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The Soldier
Donate $100.00 or more
Amount over $36.00 is tax-deductible.
In As You Like It, Shakespeare writes that the fourth stage of man is "the soldier, full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel, seeking the bubble reputation even in the cannon’s mouth."
Donate $100.00 and there will be no cause for fighting: we will give you the prop of your choice from the show, plus all the above rewards!
Donate $100.00 and there will be no cause for fighting: we will give you the prop of your choice from the show, plus all the above rewards!
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The Justice
Donate $250.00 or more
Amount over $36.00 is tax-deductible.
In As You Like It, Shakespeare writes that the fifth stage of man is "the justice, in fair round belly with good capon lined, with eyes severe and beard of formal cut, full of wise saws and modern instances, and so he plays his part."
Donate $250.00 and you will have the opportunity to take a photograph with the cast in costume, so you can play your part alongside the actors! You will also find a sonnet dedicated to you and performed by one of our cast members on social media. Plus, all the above awards!
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The Sixth Stage
Donate $500.00 or more
Amount over $36.00 is tax-deductible.
In As You Like It, Shakespeare writes that the sixth stage of man is "the sixth age shifts into the lean and slippered pantaloons, with spectacles on nose and pouch on side; his youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide for his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, turning again toward childish treble, pipes and whistles in his sound."
Donate $500.00 and although clad in slippered pantaloons, we will welcome you into the rehearsal of your choice so that you can be part of the play-making process. Plus, all the above rewards!
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The Second Childishness
Donate $1,000.00 or more
Amount over $36.00 is tax-deductible.
In As You Like It, Shakespeare writes that the seventh stage of man is "the last scene of all, that ends this strange eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion, sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything."
Donate $1,000.00 and even in this seventh stage of man, you won't be sans everything: you will become an Associate Producer, credited as such on all materials and welcomed into the creative process if desired. Plus, all the above rewards!
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