Carlota

Carlota
March 5 - 14
Location TBD

Carlota is a tormenta.
Carlota is a fantasma.
Carlota is a grandmother, a revolutionary, a healer, and a pain in the ass. She stabbed a Spanish colonel (maybe), met the goddess Oya, survived a flood, crisscrossed Cuba, abandoned her son (no she didn’t), played the lotto, smoked too much, saved lives, survived enslavement and laughed when she wanted.

Carlota is a new play with music that weaves together the extraordinary life and legacy of Carlota Ruíz de González, a fictional character rooted in the rich tapestry of Cuban and New Orleans history. Under the musical direction of Dr. Denise Frazier and award-winning powerhouse musician Yusa, Carlota transports audiences on a journey through time, where 19th and 20th century stories are interwoven with vibrant AfroCuban and Creole rhythms. Through soaring melodies and intimate storytelling, Carlota reveals how one woman's story can be passed down, creating ripples in our lives and whispering to us: (discover the past, imagine the future).

Carlota is made possible by support from the New England Foundation of the Arts’ (NEFA) National Theater Project, and Creation Fund support from the National Performance Network (NPN). Lead commissioner, NPN: Junebug Productions. Co-commissioner: Duke Arts. It is also supported by a grant from the New Orleans Tourism & Cultural Foundation and a Louisiana Project Grant administered by the Louisiana Division of the Arts and Arts New Orleans. Additional funding has come from Tulane University’s Stone Center and the Threadhead Cultural Foundation.

Goat in the Road has conducted a series of work-in-process creation workshops of the show. Check out the photos:

Workshop on November 22, 2024 at Caribbean & New Orleanian Arts (CANOA, 4210 St. Claude Ave.)

Workshop on May 31st and June 1st, 2024 at Catapult (609 St. Ferdinand St.)

Work Samples

Check out Denise Frazier’s work as Carlota from Sick Notes: Letters from an Epidemic.

Walter Anderson Audio Experience

The Walter Anderson Museum Audio Experience

This is not an ordinary museum audio guide. It is a 360 degree listening experience that puts listeners at the very center of Walter Anderson’s story; overhearing imagined conversations, listening to clips from almost a dozen interviews with those who knew him best, and bringing the sounds of the natural world into the museum with high tech mastery. 

The Audio Experience is the result of a collaboration between Goat in the Road Productions and the Walter Anderson Museum of Art (Ocean Springs, Mississippi). The project is made possible by the generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts and Tulane University’s Monroe Fellowship Research Grant. We would like to thank the interviewees, Doug Myatt, Bradley Sumrall, and Mark Tullos, as well as the descendants of Walter Anderson, Mary, Billy, Leif, and John, for contributing their time, knowledge, and love for Walter and his art.

Visit the Museum or take a listen below!

(Use headphones for best experience)

The Audio Experience is the result of a collaboration between Goat in the Road Productions and the Walter Anderson Museum of Art. The project is made possible by the generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts and Tulane University’s Monroe Fellowship Research Grant.

Top 5 Survival Moves

Top 5 Survival Moves
Presented March 8 - 17, 2024
Friday & Saturdays at 7:30 pm
Sunday, March 17 at 2:30 pm
Contemporary Arts Center (900 Camp St.)

All ticket sales from the show went to the Lisova Polyana Rehabilitation Center.

Top 5 Survival Moves is Goat in the Road Productions’ original play built in collaboration with Ukrainian/New Orleanian Katya Chizhayeva. The show offers a glimpse of Chizayeva’s ongoing work with Ukrainian soldiers coming back from the front lines, and examines the complex identities that Chizhayeva holds; as a Ukrainian, a Jewish person, a New Orleanian, and a fierce opponent of Russian imperialism. Through these lenses, the show offers New Orleans audiences a unique glimpse of life during wartime, and draws parallels to political and social conflict in the United States. 

GRP and the CAC were excited to offer a series of community engagement activities that will be happening around the performances. All were FREE:

Saturday, March 9, post-show talk with the creative team
Saturday, March 16, post-show talk with community members affected by the war
Saturday, March 16 from 12 pm - 1:30 pm, dance workshop based on creative practices from the show with Katya Chizhayeva

Lead Writer: Chris Kaminstein
Top 5 Survival Moves is based on text written and collected by Katya Chizhayeva, with additions by the ensemble

Creation and performance ensemble: Katya Chizhayeva, Steve Gilliland, Nicholas Javon, Leslie Boles Kraus, Richon May, and Maggie Tonra

Director: Chris Kaminstein
Production Manager: Shannon Flaherty
Stage Manager: Kit Sternberger
Sound Designer: Steve Gilliland
Set & Costume Designer: Ellen Bull
Lighting Designer: Mandi Wood
Projection Designer: James Lanius III
Dance consultant and title originator: Mykyta Kravchenko
Dramaturgical consultant: Tetiana Kytsenko
Graphic Designer: Nat Moonhill
Promotional Photos: Joshua Brasted

Presented in association with the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans.

Top 5 Survival Moves is made possible by support from the New Orleans Theatre Association, the Harper Family Foundation, New Orleans Tourism & Cultural Fund, the RosaMary Foundation, and a Community Partnership Grant from the Jazz & Heritage Foundation.

The Family Line: Reconstruction Cycle #3

“If there were any justice in the world, The Family Line would run year-round.”

-Brian Sands, Ambush Magazine

The Family Line
Friday, October 21, 2022 - Saturday, January 29, 2023
BK House (1113 Chartres St.)

On October 21st, 2022 Goat in the Road Productions (GRP) and Historic BK House and Gardens (BK House) came together to open The Family Line. The immersive, history-based show ran for three months, sold out almost all of its 60-plus shows, received rave reviews from critics and audiences alike, reached four groups of high school students with free performances, and won the 2023 Big Easy Theater Award for Best Play. 

The Family Line offered audiences the rare opportunity to ‘step back in time’. Alexandra Kinnon (Country Roads Magazine) commented, “The audience is made to feel like they've actually traveled in time; like they're witnessing history unfold before them.” The show centered on the 1892 New Orleans General Strike when over 30,000 workers walked off the job in a show of interracial solidarity. The play examined this event through the lens of a group of grocery store workers, some Sicilian-American and some African-American, making the difficult decision about whether or not to walk off the job.

Producing Team: Owen Ever, Shannon Flaherty, Helen Jaksch, Chris Kaminstein, April Louise, and Richon May.

Performing ensemble: Joel Derby, Dylan Hunter, Grace Kennedy, April Louise, Alexandria Miles, KC Simms, Lisa Moraschi Shattuck, and Constance Thompson.

The Family Line was written by Chris Kaminstein and the producing team.
Directed by Chris Kaminstein and Richon May
Production managed by Shannon Flaherty
Stage management by Pamela Roberts, Kit Sternberger, and Grace Graugnard
Dramaturgy by Helen Jaksch
Set by Cassandra Erb
Costumes by Ellen Bull
Lights by Mandi Wood
Set Decoration by Angeli Earley
Hair and stitching by Erin Routh

Creation Ensemble also included: Ian Hoch, Jordan Joseph, and Keyara Milliner.

BK Historic House and Gardens is a National Historic Landmark built in 1826 and restored to its present condition by renowned author Frances Parkinson Keyes beginning in 1948. An outstanding example of the raised cottage, it was designed by François Correjolles, who incorporated both Creole and American features in a well-detailed residence that remains largely in original condition. As the only example of its type open to the public, the museum offers a unique educational experience to visitors and furthers the understanding of New Orleans history. www.bkhouse.org

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The Family Line was made possible by the New Orleans Theatre Association, as well as a BOLD Ventures grant, a Helen Gurley Brown Foundation initiative, and by the New Orleans Tourism and Cultural Fund, and a Community Partnership Grant from the Jazz & Heritage Foundation. It was supported by Alternate ROOTS and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, a Sherri Marina Memorial Grant, the Harper Family Foundation, the McIlhenny Foundation and the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, as well as by a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council, as administered by the Arts Council of New Orleans. Funding has also been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.s Council, as administered by the Arts Council of New Orleans.

This production was funded in part by a Sherri Marina Memorial Grant.

Roleplay

An new play examining love, sex, power, and consent on campus.

Originally created in 2018-19, Roleplay was inspired by the startling results of the 2018 Tulane University Climate Survey on Sexual Misconduct. The study revealed that 41% of female students and 19% of male students reported being sexually assaulted during their time on campus. The show was a collaboration between then Adjunct Professor Darci Fulcher, filmmaker Katie Mathews, Tulane Professor Jenny Mercein, Goat in the Road Productions, and fifteen Tulane University students (listed below). The group worked for over a year to create the 90-minute show that follows eleven students through their Sophomore year of college. The show won a 2019 Big Easy Theatre Award for Best Ensemble. Roleplay was remounted with a brand new group of students in 2023.

September 5 - 15, 2019 (premiere)
January 25 - February 5, 2023 (remount)
Tulane’s Lupin Theatre, 150 Dixon Hall Annex

”Stories are personal, first drafts are imperfect, stakes are high, conversations are necessary, and confrontation, in theatre, is key.”
- Alex Ates, American Theatre Magazine
“How ‘Roleplay’ Reflected Tulane’s Experiences With Assault”

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE

Roleplay is available through Dramatic Publishing. Purchase it here.

*Photos by Joshua Brasted

The Team

Student creator/performers (2019): Aaron Avidon, Carl Briggs Jr., Ross Brill, Alexandra Elam, Hannah Gordon, Grace Graughnard, Robert Holmes-Acourt, Miranda Kramer, Nagelle LeBoyd, Hailey Mozzachio, and Lucy Sartor. Roleplay was also built by Annalise Harknett, Noah Hazzard, Hannah Kent, and James Weiss, with student choreography by Tessa Rebold.

Student performers (2023): Mackenzie Bell, Joseph Benefiel, Lourdes Castillo, Khaja Daniel, Colin Foley, Scott Hawkins, Isabel Kaufman, Rosalind Roland, Taylor Sacco, Laney Tellegen, and Siena Vincent with assistant stage manager Charlie Peeler.

Artist and production team (2019): Darci Fulcher & Chris Kaminstein (co-directors), Shannon Flaherty (Production Manager), Jenny Mercein (producer), Kit Sternberger (stage manager), Kevin Griffith (set design), Owen Ever (properties), Ellen Bull (costume design), Dylan Hunter (sound design), Joan Long (light design), Jasmine Williams (master electrician), Betsy Primes (sound board), Michaela Brown (asst. stage manager).

Artist and production team (2023): Darci Fulcher (co-director), Nick Javon (co-director), Jenny Mercein (producer), Shannon Flaherty (producer), Chris Kaminstein (producer), Ellen Bull (costume), Owen Ever (properties), Steve Gilliland (sound tech), Kevin Griffith (set), Dylan Hunter (sound design), Joan Long (light design), and Kit Sternberger (stage manager).

The Film

The Roleplay process was followed by documentary filmmaker and project co-originator Katie Mathews. Over the course of the 2018-2019 school year, a group of professional and student filmmakers documented the creation process in an attempt to portray the social issues that college students grapple with today, and how art can be transformational in confronting these issues. The Roleplay documentary film is scheduled to be released in the fall of 2021.

FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE FILM HERE.

Roleplay was made possible by support from by support from the Tulane University Campus Health and All In: Tulane's Commitment to Stop All Sexual Violence, the Newcomb Institute of Tulane University and the Donna and Richard Esteves Fund at the Newcomb Institute, School of Liberal Arts at Tulane University Lurcy Grant, Nancy Rebold and Matt Rebold, and a Carol Lavin Bernick Faculty Grant. Early development of Roleplay was sponsored by the Hangar Theatre AIRS Residency.

Pirate Improv Show

Pirate Improv Show #2!
Saturday, April 16 at 2:30 pm
Doors open at 2 pm
Catapult (609 St. Ferdinand St.)
FREE!

With 2 new pirates!
Featuring the original pirates: Grace Blakeman, Chris Kaminstein, and Lauren Malara, and now with two new crew members, Mary Jacobs and Ian Hoch, this unique every time, improvised show takes audiences on a journey of daring and delight with five not-so-brave pirates in search of treasure.

This free, family friendly show is great for audiences of all ages, but will bring particular joy to those ages 5 - 12.

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Pirate Improv Show #1:
Saturday, October 30 at 3 pm and 4 pm
Showtime: 35 minutes
Parleaux Beer Lab (634 Lesseps St.)

Photos by Nkechi Chibueze

Sick Notes: Letters from the Epidemic

Over the past few years Goat in the Road has been creating immersive, history-based shows about 19th century New Orleans.

We are thrilled to be presenting a new, unique digital experience that combines filmmaking, historical fiction, and performance in order to explore the 1878 New Orleans Yellow Fever Epidemic.

Explore the website, following different characters through their journey of the outbreak.
Sick Notes is best viewed on a computer.

The Uninvited: Reconstruction Cycle #2

Goat in the Road and Hermann-Grima + Gallier Historic Houses present a new immersive play set in the Gallier House. 

The Uninvited
Friday, January 10 - Saturday, March 7, 2020
Two shows per night: 6 pm and 8 pm
Gallier House, 1132 Royal St. (Entrance and ticketing at 1128 Royal St.)
The Uninvited runs 90 minutes.

Set in 1874, The Uninvited follows nine characters who live in, or orbit around, the Gallier House. It is six years after architect James Gallier Jr.’s death, and his wife, two of his daughters, and household staff members Charity and Rene are preparing for an evening of entertaining when a mob of young men passes by, seeking to re-segregate the integrated school next door. News of the mob and an uninvited guest disrupt the household and expose the race and class divisions embedded in the characters’ lives. The event is based on a real-life incident that took place in December 1874.

Directed by Chris Kaminstein & Kiyoko McCrae
Set Design by Owen Ever
Costume Design by Kaci Thomassie
Lighting Design by Joshua Courtney
Stage Manager: Kit Sternberger
Asst. Stage. Manager: Mary Davis
Asst. Costume Designer: Baylee Robertson

Featuring: Brian Egland, Shannon Flaherty, Darci Fulcher, Ian Hoch, Dylan Hunter, Tenaj Jackson, Grace Kennedy, April Louise (first six weeks), Jessica Lozano, and Constance Thompson (last two weeks).

The Uninvited was created by the lead artist team (Shannon Flaherty, Denise Frazier, Owen Ever, Chris Kaminstein, and Kiyoko McCrae) and the ensemble, as well as Abéo Tibbs.

The Uninvited is the second historical, immersive performance created by GRP. The Stranger Disease, which premiered in March 2018, was a collaboration with the Louisiana State Museum and Friends of the Cabildo. The show won four Big Easy Theatre Awards (Best Play, Best Director, Best Ensemble, and Best Original Work of Theatre), as well as a 2019 History in Progress Award and an Award of Excellence from the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH). These awards are the most prestigious recognition for achievement in the preservation and interpretation of state and local history.

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Hermann-Grima + Gallier Historic Houses is owned by The Woman's Exchange of New Orleans, which was organized in 1881 by women who dared to make a difference in the lives of other women. This legacy continues through the promotion of cultural preservation (of life in the Vieux Carre), thereby inspiring a sense of place and civic pride in New Orleans today. www.hgghh.org

Goat in the Road Productions is a New Orleans based performance ensemble dedicated to the production of original and invigorating new works of theatre, dance, performance art, and educational programming. www.goatinroadproductions.org

Funding for The Uninvited has been provided by the Gustaf W. McIlhenny Foundation, the New Orleans Theatre Association, the RosaMary Foundation, the Fertel Foundation, and the Jazz & Heritage Foundation. Goat in the Road’s 2019-20 season is supported in part by a Community Arts Grant made possible by the City of New Orleans and administered by the Arts Council New Orleans, as well as by a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation & Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a Federal agency.

Photos from our February 2019 workshop:

*Photo credit to Josh Brasted.

The Uninvited Bonus!

KindHumanKind

Over a 3-year period of travelling, deaths, and births, Nealand wrote and recorded the music for KindHumanKind as a solo project. This work now expands into an intimate and theatrical extension under the unique design and direction of Goat in the Road, presented by the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans.

KindHumanKind features Ms. Nealand, as well as New Orleans musicians free feral (Leyla McCalla Band, Sing River Shout: a ritual in reparations), Tiffany Lamson (The Givers), and Alexis Marceaux (Sweet Crude).

KindHumanKind
March 29 - 31, 2019
Friday & Saturday at 7:30 pm, Sunday at 3 pm
Contemporary Arts Center (900 Camp St.)

*Photos by Josh Brasted.

KindHumanKind presents a visual world that showcases Ms. Nealand’s unique talents as a storyteller and musician, and brings to life her virtuosic, heartbreaking musical world. The performance features Ms. Nealand, as well as New Orleans musicians free feral (Leyla McCalla Band, Sing River Shout: a ritual in reparations), Tiffany Lamson (The Givers), and Alexis Marceaux (Sweet Crude).

KindHumanKind is the first collaboration between Ms. Nealand and Goat in the Road, after years of friendship and support within the Bywater arts community.  

Directed and produced by Shannon Flaherty & Chris Kaminstein
Set Design: Jebney Lewis
Sound Design: Dylan Hunter
Light Design: Joshua Courtney
Projection Design: Kourtney Keller
Ass. Projection Design: Dan Pruksarnukul
Costume Design: Kiyoko McCrae
Stage Manager: Kit Sternberger

Aurora Nealand is a sound artist and multi-instrumentalist (saxophones, accordion, voice) based in New Orleans, LA. Nealand has become a prominent force in the New Orleans music scene since she first arrived in 2004 and is the founder and leader of the non-traditional Traditional Jazz band, The Royal Roses, which draws its approach to collective improvisation from both the New Orleans Jazz traditions, as well as the AACM, and collage-sound art. Nealand's other musical projects include The Monocle, Redrawblak Trio, and the Instigation Orchestra. She is an avid devotee of the musical mystery alter-ego band, Rory Danger & the Danger Dangers.

Nealand regularly works as a musical facilitator with Found Sound Nation (under Bang on a Can) -an organization, which facilitates international musical collaboration and sonic diplomacy, and she has taught at the Walden School for Young Composers. Nealand was voted  "Best Female Performer” (2016 Gambit awards), and  "Best Traditional Jazz Band (The Royal Roses)" in the 2015 & 2017 Big Easy Awards. She is the co-founder of SONO (Sound Observatory New Orleans), which facilitates workshops of new music in the New Orleans region. She has been awarded residencies at the New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center, the MacDowell Colony, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts.  In spring 2018, she was a co-curator of and performer in Southern Sonic at the CAC. 

KindHumanKind is supported by a grant from the Threadhead Cultural Foundation, a Community Partnership grant from the Jazz & Heritage Foundation, as well as a grant from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music.

The Night With Mr. Bismuth

One of New Orleans most accomplished performers takes to the stage in his first one-man show:  Dylan Hunter stars as Mister Bismuth, the artificially intelligent host of a 23rd century late night talk show, The Night With Mister Bismuth.  The play is a hilarious, dark look at the future of human entertainment, and the ways that our technologies outlast us. 

Presented as part of FORGE Festival #2
May 11 - 13, 17 - 20, 2018
The Fortress of Lushington (2215 Burgundy St.)

Created by Dylan Hunter
Directed by: Chris Kaminstein
Set Design: Lindsay Rowinksi
Set Consulting: Jeff Becker
Video Design: Matt Jackson
Costume Design: Kiyoko McCrae
Lighting Design: Joshua Courtney
Stage Manager: Kit Sternberger
Asst. Stage Manager: Julianne Reece Glotfelty

The Distance of Sound

Darci Fulcher stars in this hilarious, heartbreaking one-person show, set somewhere beyond the seams of reality in a world where you can re-wind, re-live, and alter the memories of your past. Created with Shannon Flaherty, Fulcher plays the mischievous Beatrice, who is sorting through the scraps of her life to find the memories that matter. 

Presented as part of FORGE Festival #2
May 11 - 13, 17 - 20, 2018
The Fortress of Lushington (2215 Burgundy St.)

Created by Darci Fulcher and Shannon Flaherty
Performed by: Darci Fulcher
Directed by: Shannon Flaherty
Stage Manager: Kit Sternberger
Asst. Stage Manager: Julianne Reece Glotfelty
Set Design: Owen Ever & Lindsay Rowinski
Light Design: Joshua Courtney
Sound Design: Peter Bowling
Costume Design: Kaci Thomassie
Script Consultant: Chris Kaminstein

Voices by Peter Bowling, Shannon Flaherty, Darci Fulcher, Ian Hoch, Dylan Hunter, Grace Kennedy, Kiyoko McCrae, and Jennifer Sargent.

The Stranger Disease: Reconstruction Cycle #1

Presented by the Louisiana State Museum (LSM), Friends of the Cabildo (FOC), and GRP, The Stranger Disease is an immersive, original, historically inspired performance about yellow fever and love across the color line in post-Reconstruction New Orleans. 

The Stranger Disease won four Big Easy Theatre Awards (Best Play, Best Director, Best Ensemble, and Best Original Work of Theatre), as well as a 2019 History in Progress Award from the AASLH Leadership in History Awards, and an Award of Excellence. These awards are the most prestigious recognition for achievement in the preservation and interpretation of state and local history.

The Stranger Disease
March 23 – April 15, 2018
Thursday – Saturday at 6 pm and 8 pm, Sundays at 3 pm
Madame John’s Legacy, 632 Dumaine St.

During the show, audience members are able to freely explore the historic property, following the characters and story lines they choose. An accompanying exhibit, free and open to the public during the weekdays, highlighted LSM’s collection and the rich history of Madame Johns’ Legacy.

Set in 1878, The Stranger Disease follows seven people who live in, or orbit around, Madame John’s Legacy, as rumors of what would be one of the city’s worst yellow fever epidemics begin to spread. Navigating post-Reconstruction New Orleans, as well as a romance that crosses the color line, the characters must decide whether to stay or leave the city.

Created by the Goat in the Road ensemble in collaboration with LSM historians, using artifacts and historic documents, The Stranger Disease features an amazing ensemble of performers and designers who will use theatrical tools to immerse the public in the rich and complicated history of the French Quarter in a wholly unique way, and generate a renewed interest in the historic property.

Created by Owen Ever, Shannon Flaherty, Chris Kaminstein, Kiyoko McCrae and the ensemble.

Ensemble: Khiry Armstead, Keith Claverie, Shannon Flaherty, Denise Frazier, Ian Hoch, April Louise, and Jessica Lozano.

Production manager: Becka McLaughlin
Stage Manager: Kit Sternberger
Lights by: Joshua Courtney
Costumes by: Hope Bennett
Set by: Owen Ever

The Louisiana State Museum is a statewide network of National Historic Landmarks and architecturally significant structures that house half a million artifacts that showcase Louisiana’s history and culture.

Friends of the Cabildo is a private non-profit volunteer group that provides financial and volunteer support for the Louisiana State Museum, its projects and its properties. Since incorporating in 1956, the Friends of the Cabildo has grown into a large statewide membership organization, a dynamic and motivating force in broadening and supporting the aims of the Louisiana State Museum.

The Stranger Disease was made possible by funding from the New Orleans Theatre Association, the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, Friends of the Cabildo, and the Puffin Foundation.

Shakesbeer

Goat in the Road Productions is pleased to bring New Orleans a new way to watch Shakespeare, Shakesbeer the Drinking Game: Romeo & Juliet. What better way to enjoy the romantic-bawdy-silliness of Shakespeare’s tragedy than with a beer in your hand, hollering and shedding tears in iambic pentameter?

Adapted by award winning director and project creator Mark Routhier (Nola Project: Balm and Gilead, Marie Antoinette, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest), Shakesbeer takes the world’s most well-known love story, reduces it to half an hour, and sets it in a bar.

Adapted and directed by: Mark Routhier
Produced by: Chris Kaminstein and Shannon Flaherty

Shakesbeer’s second run was part of the 2018 InFringe Festival.

Featuring: AshleyRose Bailey, Julie Dietz, and Lauren Malara.

November 8 - 11
Parleaux Beer Lab
(634 Lesseps St.)

Shakesbeer's first run in 2017:

Featuring: Julie Dietz, Mack Guillory III, and Lauren Malara.

Monday, December 4 & 8 at 7 pm
Parleaux Beer Lab
(634 Lesseps St.)

Saturday, December 9 at 7 pm
Twelve Mile Limit
(500 S. Telemachus St.)

Foreign to Myself

“Then you get out of the military and you try to integrate back—you do integrate back into the civilian world, but you quickly realize that nobody else is thinking that way, nobody else is thinking that everything they do is for a team.” —Smith & True, 2014

Foreign to Myself Remount
January 12 - 14 and 19 - 21
UNO's Robert E. Nims Theatre
2000 Lakeshore Dr.
This was a free event!

Foreign to Myself initial run from May 18 - 21, 2017
at the New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center (900 Camp St.).
All photos by Joshua Brasted.

Less than one half of one percent of U.S. citizens currently serve in the armed forces, creating a an experience gap between Veterans and civilians. Goat in the Road has spent the last two plus years connecting with military Veterans, families, and medical experts to build this fast-moving, darkly funny play about the daily life of the returning Vet. 

The 2017 ensemble: Leslie Boles Kraus*, William Bowling, Shannon Flaherty*, Denise Frazier, Darci Fulcher*, Jeremy Guyton, and Dylan Hunter*.

The 2018 ensemble included Grace Kennedy.

Sascha/Francine: Kylie Butler

Directed by: Chris Kaminstein*
Production Manager: Shannon Flaherty*
Stage Manager: Kit Sternberger*
Music Composition: Peter Bowling*
Sound Design/Projection Design: Kyle Sheehan*
Set Design: Nick Benacerraf
Props Design: Owen Ever*
Lighting Design: Joshua Courtney*
Costume Design: Kaci Thomassie*
Projection Engineer: Dan Pruksarnukul
Production Assistant: Alex Becker
Goat in the Road Intern: Melinda Allen

* indicates GRP company members

This multi-year project had three workshop phases: January 2015, May 2015, and May 2016, and was created in conjunction with key partners:

• Gala True, PhD  
  • Dr. Gala True is a social scientist with over 15 years of experience conducting health services research with vulnerable populations.  Over the past 8 years, she has employed participatory action research methods to collaborate with Veterans and other key stakeholders on identifying barriers to post-deployment care and proposing solutions for improving community reintegration after separation from military service.
• The NOLA Veterans Arts & Humanities Alliance
  • Created in the fall of 2016, the NOLA Veterans Arts & Humanities Alliance brings together veterans, health care providers, artists, and other community members who believe in the power of the arts and humanities to promote healing and mutual understanding, with the goal of creating more opportunities for art-making and dialogue involving veterans and the larger community in New Orleans.

Foreign to Myself 2017 was made possible by a Community Partnership Grant from the Jazz & Heritage Foundation, a grant from the RosaMary Foundation, and support from the New Orleans Theatre Association. It is also supported by a Community Arts Grant made possible by the City of New Orleans and a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council, both administered by the Arts Council New Orleans. Funding has also been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, Art Works. 

and a BIG THANK YOU to our Kickstarter donors who made Foreign to Myself possible!

Francesca McKenzie, Paul Werner, Andrew Larimer, Laurie McCants, Larry Comiskey, Michael Sternberger, Mary Rizzo, Eli Silverman, Sascha Stanton-Craven, Amy Sulzman, Thomas Bogan, Beau Bratcher, Alice Yorke, Drew Carrico, Joseph Furnari, Peter & Mary Barrett, Mark, The NOLA Project, John Boles, Evan Spigelman, Mark Routhier, Jana Napoli, Susan Bowling, Bob, Bajir Cannon, Benjamin Lenox Smith, Meryl Murman, Jake Bartush, Veronica Hunsinger-Loe, Boob Weisz, Jenny, Kerry Cahill, Emily Slazer, Patty & Tom Flaherty, Jonathan Greene, Jan Gilbert, Chris Carrington, Michele Lampach, Nicole Showman, Darci Fulcher, Helen Jacksch, Tara Marie Good, Joan Long, Matthew Schwarzfeld, Degan Leopold, Scott Sheppard, Jenn Kidwell, Phil Yiannopoulos, Kate Bailey, Casie Duplechain, Danielle, Lilly Small, Claire Duplantier, Amanda Chudnow, Tatiana Clay, Don Berg, Daniel & Jenny Kaminstein, Michelle Hamilton, Nick Shackleford, Rebecca Frank, Sherrine Azab, Angelle, Mark, Danya, Gary Saxvik, Scott King, Cara Zwerling, Ariadne Blayde, Nate Baumgart, Elizabeth Dowd, Andrew Vaught, Anne Wages, Daral Boles, Hugh Hunter, Rachel Stein, Kenneth Korman, Lindsay Docherty Rachlin, Dave Crowley, Suzy Myers, Caroline Gutterson, Ron Chapman, Lily Whitsitt, Dana & Maria Kaminstein, Lindsey Phillips, Nina Zeitlin, Nancy Sharon Collins, Columbine Goldsmith, Michael Gottwald, Joanna Russo, Keith Miller, Bear Hebert, Adam Falik, Monica R. Harris, Laura Boles, Leigh Harwood, Aurora Nealand, Ben Shesta, Nick Slie, Alan Hunter, Jen Davis, and Marie Lovejoy.

Haydn Seek

Friday, June 17 & Saturday, June 18, 2016
8 pm at the Marigny Opera House (725 St. Ferdinand St.) 

Haydn Seek is a performance collaboration between New Resonance Orchestra and Goat in the Road, blending the worlds of classical music and physical theater.

New Resonance Orchestra, conducted by Francis Scully, performed eleven of the most audacious movements from the “theatrical” symphonies of Joseph Haydn (1732-1809). Under the direction of Darci Fulcher, Goat in the Road’s ensemble accompanied the music with a silent theatrical performance, bringing Haydn’s musical world to life in all of its anarchic glory. 

Music by Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

Symphony no. 70 – 4th movement Allegro con brio
Symphony no. 22 “The Philosopher” – 1st movement Adagio
Symphony no. 67 – 3rd movement Menuetto
Symphony no. 60 – 4th movement Presto
Symphony no. 64 – 2nd movement Largo
Symphony no. 80 – 1st movement Allegro spiritoso
Symphony no. 60 – 5th movement Adagio (di Lamentatione)
Symphony no. 65 – 3rd movement Menuetto
Symphony no. 86 – 2nd movement Capriccio, Largo
Symphony no. 6 – 3rd movement Menuetto
Symphony no. 80 – 4th movement Presto

New Resonance Orchestra
Conducted by Francis Scully

Violins - Kate Withrow, Byron Tauchi, Liz Overweg, Xiao Fu, Anton Zholondz, Gabrielle Fischler, Tarrah Reynolds, Qi Cao, Judith Armistead Fitzpatrick, and Hannah Yim

Violas - Bruce Owen, Amelia Clingman, and Valborg Gross

Cello - Philip von Maltzahn, Kyle Anderson, and Jennie Brent

Bass - Paul Macres

Flute - Andrew Foley

Oboe/English Horn - Phillip Larroque and Daniel Graber

Bassoon - Michael Matushek and Rebecca Cain

Horn - Mollie Pate and Dan Callawa

Goat in the Road Productions

Props & costumes by Owen Ever
Lighting by Shawn Ramagos
Stage managed by Sam Martin
Asst. stage managed by Rachel Ridgeway

Actors
Chris Kaminstein
Dylan Hunter
Ian Hoch
Mack Guillory III
Shannon Flaherty

Founded by Music Director Francis Scully in 2008, New Resonance Orchestra is a group of young, professional classical musicians in New Orleans working to reclaim classical music in America as a vital force for artistic expression and social change. With its fearless performances, New Resonance Orchestra makes music that is fresh, joyful, and relevant. Creating interdisciplinary performance events and engaging with current issues, New Resonance Orchestra uses classical music to rejuvenate New Orleans.

www.newresonanceorchestra.org

Haydn Seek is supported in part by a Community Arts Grant made possible by the City of New Orleans and administered by the Arts Council New Orleans, and by a Community Partnership Grant from the Jazz and Heritage Foundation.

FORGE Festival

Goat in the Road Productions is pleased to present FORGE Festival, a biennial micro festival of genre-bending performance work for New Orleans audiences, featuring some of the most accomplished theater artists in the city.  

The first FORGE Festival was presented by Goat in the Road Productions and Skin Horse Theater. 

FORGE #1
April 13 - 16, 2016
Shows at 7pm, 9 pm, and 11 pm
Theatre at St. Claude (2240 St. Claude Ave.)

FORGE #1 featured three bold and outlandish mainstage shows: Our Man from Goat in the Road, She Was Born by Nat & Veronica, Creep Cuts featuring Mz. Asa Metric and Mqr. En Between.  

FORGE #2
May 11 - 13, 17 - 20, 2018
The Fortress of Lushington (2215 Burgundy St.)

Featuring This Must Be The Place, The Distance of Sound, The Night With Mr. Bismuth, Shakesbeer, and Machine A.

FORGE #2 SHOWS AND INFO

About the shows in FORGE #2:

The Distance of Sound
Darci Fulcher (Foreign to Myself) stars in this hilarious, heartbreaking one-person show, set somewhere beyond the seams of reality in a world where you can re-wind, re-live, and alter the memories of your past.  Created with Shannon Flaherty, Fulcher plays the mischievous Beatrice, who is sorting through the scraps of her life to find the memories that matter. 

The Night With Mr. Bismuth
One of New Orleans most accomplished performers takes to the stage in his first one-man show:  Dylan Hunter stars as Mister Bismuth, the artificially intelligent host of a 23rd century late night talk show, The Night With Mister Bismuth.  The play is a hilarious, dark look at the future of human entertainment, and the ways that our technologies outlast us.  

Shakesbeer
Working with award winning Director and project creator Mark Routhier, GRP has taken the world’s most well-known love story, reduced it to half an hour, and paired it with some good old fashioned drinking games. Starring Julie Dietz, Mack Guillory III, and Lauren Malara, our interpretation of this tale of woe and amorous conquest will have audiences enjoying Romeo & Juliet in a whole new (slightly tipsy) way. 

Machine A
Award-winning performer Cecile Monteyne (2015 Theater Person of the Year) and director Chris Kaminstein bring back their nationally-touring, critically acclaimed show, Machine A.  Over the course of 45 minutes the pair improvise a brand new one-act play from scratch, featuring improv like you’ve never seen it before. 

This Must Be the Place (installation)
Local artist and theater maker Jen Davis brings her formidable talents as a director to This Must Be the Place, an interactive visual art installation.  The work is an evocative, dreamlike investigation of fate, individually tailored to each viewer. Is this for me? A recurring coincidence, a strangely specific message. You glance at the clock after an eternity to realize no time has passed at all. The radio fades through static to that song you used to know so well but can’t quite remember. Have the lights gone dim? This must be the place.  

FORGE #1 SHOWS & INFO

About the shows in FORGE #1:

Our Man
Two men in a box elect a tennis racket named Ronald Reagan as president.

Goat in the Road’s comedic performance work explores the intersection of performance and politics in the modern age, through the lenses of 1950’s era radio broadcasts and a decidedly fictional approach to American political history. Written by William Bowling, Chris Kaminstein, and Sascha Stanton-Craven (and performed by Bowling and Kaminstein), Our Man was featured on the cover of American Theatre magazine in 2013.

She Was Born
“Genius… the definition of unmissable.” (NOLA Defender)
“Justifies the raw power of live performance.” (Austin 360)

Nature documentary meets Theater of the Absurd in this utterly unique physical performance featuring striking visuals, sly humor and a virtuoso performance that depicts an entire life from birth to death. She Was Born draws the audience into the microscopic universe of an extraterrestrial insect named SHE in order to confront the most basic question of all: Why was I born? Created by Nat & Veronica, and performed by Ms. Hunsinger-Loe.

Creep Cuts
Creep Cuts is the ill-tempered lovechild of cosmic superstars Mz. Asa Metric and Mqr. En Between (Evan Spigelman & Dylan Hunter). Together they form New Orleans’ premier electro-dada-freak-drag-hyper-hyphenated-extra-execrated cabaret duo from out-of-the-blue-o! Behold as they bring you a night of dystopic musings and wild drag zenanigans to confound the senses, pique the appetite, and potentially pick the heart’s pockets and run off with all of its spare change. 

uncle vanya: quarter life crisis

November 5 - 29, 2015
Thursday - Sunday at 8 pm
Accompanied by MOMMA TRIED's Voynitsky Collection
The Ether Dome (3625 St. Claude Ave. at Independence St.)
Promotional video made by the geniuses at FatHappyMedia

Uncle Vanya: Quarter Life Crisis is an original work for the stage that smashes together one of Chekhov’s most famous plays with the post-recession world of 2009, re-imagining Chekhov’s work to be about young people living and struggling in Louisiana.

The show was adapted by director Chris Kaminstein and the cast (live exhibit performers).

Live Exhibit Performers:

Marina………Shannon Flaherty
Astrov……….Dylan Hunter
Vanya………..Brian Dorsam
Alexandra……Darci Fulcher
Maria………...Tenaj Jackson
Waffles………Mack Guillory
Sonya………..Leslie Boles Kraus
Yelene……….Matt Thompson
Tour Guide….Owen Ever, Andy Vaught

Production Stuff:

Director/Lead Adapter…….Chris Kaminstein
Assistant Director…………Shannon Flaherty
Script Adaptation................The Cast
Stage Manager…………….Jacob Halpern Weitzman
Assistant Stage Manager…..Bennett Kirchner
Production Manager………Casie Duplechain
Set Designer………………Joan Long
Lighting Designer………...Joan Long
Properties Designer………Owen Ever
Costume Designer………..Lindy Bruns
Sound Designer…………..Kyle Sheehan
Technical Director………..William Bowling
Marketing…………………Shannon Flaherty, Leslie Boles Kraus
Program………………….Nat Kusinitz
Compendium Guide………Bennett Kirchner, Peter Pinelli

Voinitsky Collection by MOMMA TRIED

Artistic Directors……Theo Eliezer, Micah Learned

Promotional photos by MOMMA TRIED. Performance photos by Joshua Brasted.

The Voynitsky Collection, an installation by MOMMA TRIED (local interdisciplinary art project with a print-only publication at its center) composed of miniatures and objects, models and displays, will work in tandem with the play to encourage the audience to look at both the play, and the art that surrounds it, as the moments and minutia of the day-to-day that constitute life.  

Anti-Ennui: Themes for a 21st Century Uncle Vanya
In conjunction with the production, GRP worked with regional partners to explore the timeless themes of Chekhov's masterpiece and our modern adaptation.

Saturday, Nov. 7:
A post-show panel discussion featured an eclectic cast of pseudo-intellectuals and non-credentialed life gurus. Economist Jana Sikdar, millennial Brandon Rapp, and yogi Vera Lester gave a raucous and thought-provoking debate about the changing nature of work, the unchanging nature of privilege, and the ongoing quest to find and make meaning in our lives and work. Think the GOP Presidential debates, minus seven to ten candidates. Think the Benghazi Hearing, minus ten and half hours.

Saturday, Nov. 14:
Monique Verdin, Nick Slie and a few very special guests led a discussion about the relationship between land loss and cultural survival in Coastal Louisiana.  There was dancing, red bean gumbo and real talk.

Saturday, Nov. 21: 
5 pm: Artspot Productions’ presented Chekhov’s Wild Ride

6:15 – 7:45 pm: Complimentary Moscow Mules and snacks with panel and performances featuring Moscow Nights

8 pm: Goat in the Road presented Uncle Vanya: Quarter Life Crisis

 On Nov. 21, Artspot Productions, Goat in the Road, and Moscow Nights presented A Day of Chekhov, an extended day of Chekhov performances and discussion. Beginning at 5 pm, Artspot presented a "remembering" of their 2004 production, Chekhov's Wild Ride (part of ArtSpot's Remembering Series for their 20th Anniversary Year). Immediately following Artspots' Kathy Randels, Goat in the Road's Chris Kaminstein, and Natasha Ramer, Artistic Director of Moscow Nights (based in the Greater Metropolitan Area), discussed their work and Chekhov's relevance to Louisiana today. There was also short performances by Moscow Nights and Russian-inspired drinks and snacks.

Uncle Vanya: Quarter Life Crisis is supported by a Community Partnership Grant from the Jazz & Heritage Foundation, and a Stabilization Grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to our Uncle Vanya: Quarter Life Crisis Kickstarter! You make the art happen!

Aminisha, Angelle, Amy Avakian, Alex Ates, Babette, Stephen Backer, Claire Bangser, Peter & Mary Barrett, James Bartelle, Jake Bartush, Nate Baumgart, Daral Boles, John Boles, Jenna Bonistalli, Thomas Bogan, Laura Boles, Peter J Bowling, Susan & Thomas Bowling, Beau Bratcher, Jon Broder, Mary Brown, Bajir Cannon, Rachel Carrico, Ron Chapman, Cecile and Eric Charleston, Larry Comiskey, Eileen Conery, Willa Conway, Dave Crowley, Jen Davis, Julia DeLois, Katherine Doss, Alden Eagle, Emilie, Alison Ebbert, Adam Falik, Alexandra Fallon, Carol Finnegan, Patty Flaherty, Rebecca Leviah Frank, Denise Frazier, A Flynn, Joseph Furnari, Gedney, Felissa Rose Gero, Grace Goodrich, Michael Gottwald, Mary Guiteras, Josh Hailey, Alexanda Hallowell, James Hamilton, Corey Harrower, Bear Hebert, Nathan Heigert, Jake Hooker, Veronica Hunsinger-Loe, Alan Hunter, Hugh Hunter, David Huynh, Julia Kaericher, Daniel Kaminstein, Katie, Scott King, Andrew Kingsley, Kristen, Kenneth Korman, Megan Kosmoski, Bill Kraus, Andrew Larimer, RS Larimer, Rachel Lee, Jessica Lozano, Brian Pittman LoGiudice, Marie Lovejoy, Ezra Lowery, Danny Marin, Bob Martin, Mark, Justin Maxwell, Francesca McKenzie, Mandy McNeil, Jessica Medenbach, Grace Millsaps, Ryan Murphy, Movies from Marlboro, Jana Napoli, Aurora Nealand, Linda Perlstein, Lindsey Phillips, Lindsay Docherty Rachlin, Gabrielle Reisman, Mary Rizzo, Mike Rizzo, Amy Rouse, Sarah, Matthew Schwarzfeld, Matt Schwarzman, Francis Scully, Nick Shackleford, John J Sheehan, Scott Sheppard, Danya Sherman, Ben Shesta, Beth Shippert-Myers, Eli Silverman, Laurence Silverman, Max Silverman, Evan Spigelman, Megan Staab, Sascha Stanton-Craven, Gerald & Lynn Stein, Laura Stein, Rachel Stein, Matthew Thompson, Katie Van Herik Tonguis, Two-headed Calf & Lisa D'Amour, Anna Laura Quinn, Vagabond Inventions, Fred Werner, Paul Werner, Kristina Wong, and Philip Yiannopoulos.

Numb

Nov. 7 - Dec. 6, 2014
Thursday - Saturday at 8 pm, Sundays at 7 pm
The Ether Dome (3625 St. Claude Ave.)

Numb was part of the New Orleans Fringe Festival from November 20 - 22. 

Presented in association with the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum and the Cachet Art and Culture Program, Numb explores the complicated history of anesthesiology and 19th century medicine.  Numb looks at the ecstasy and intoxication of drugs that alter human consciousness in a quest for pain-free surgery, and the often forgotten human stories that accompany advancement.

Numb received three 2015 Big Easy Awards for Best Ensemble, Best Original Work (Devised) and Best Sound Design (Kyle Sheehan).

Written and directed by Chris Kaminstein
Sound design by Kyle Sheehan and William Bowling with assistance from Dylan Hunter
Production management by Emily Slazer and William Bowling
Stage management by Rebecca McLaughlin
Ensemble: Dylan Hunter, Francesca McKenzie, Ian Hoch, Leslie Boles, Shannon Flaherty, and Todd D'Amour
Mime consulting by Jenny Sargent
Lighting design by Joan Long
Costume design by Mignon Charvet
Graphic design by Kyle Sheehan
Photos by April June Photography

GRP began developing Numb since January 2014. Check out photos from the January workshop of Numb here. 

To accompany the show, GRP released 5 podcasts that deal with pain and its relief. Check them out:

Podcast #1 - 19th Century Pharmacist

Podcast #2 - Pain and Dr. Gould

Podcast #3 - Peter and Pain (the relationship between pain and language)

Podcast #4 - Beneath the Womb Veil (Cachet Art and Culture program panel on early female healthcare)

Podcast #5 - Interview with Amina Massey about her research working with women of color who experience chronic pain and illness

Another feature of Numb was a collaboration with pain experts and public health thinkers to create a conversation about the changing understanding of pain and its relief, which was the foundation for "Club Med", a series of engagement events geared to the medial and neuroscience community of New Orleans.

Club Med events featured:
- Sunday, November 9: a post-show panel of neurologists and pain experts will discuss our ever evolving understanding of pain and pain relief. This discussion will feature:

• Dr. Harry Gould, Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience at LSU's Pain Mastery Program;
• Dr. Kate Yurgil, Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology at Loyola University with interests in the area of behavioral health include examining risk and resiliency factors for post-traumatic stress disorder, and the effects of traumatic brain injury on mental health and neuropsychological function;
• Dr. Christophe E Jackson, Acoustic Advisor of the NOMC&AF Save New Orleans Sounds Program and researcher at Wichita State University and Tulane University and; 
• Dr. Deb Kahrson, neuroscientist with specific research in Autism Spectrum Disorders and multilevel biomarker discovery through postdoc training at Stanford University.

- Sunday, November 16: a post-show discussion about the New Orleans Pharmacy Museum will spotlight Dr. Elma LeDoux's work. Dr. LeDoux is a Professor of Medicine and Medical Director of the Standardized Patient Program at Tulane University School of Medicine. She served as Director of Medical Education and Medical Director of the Cardiology Clinic at Touro Infirmary prior to assuming the role of Medicine Clerkship Director at Tulane in 1996. This conversation will be led by NUMB’s dramaturge and New Orleans Pharmacy Museum's Owen Evers.

Numb is supported by the Puffin Foundation and by a Community Partnership Grant from the Jazz & Heritage Foundation.

This Sweaty City

“This Sweaty City” is a two-pronged project:
1) an 8-part live performance series and
2) 8 episodic podcasts.

GRP will release new produce new episodes for podcast and live performance 3 - 4 times a year.

City’s plot is a magical realist story about the inhabitants of a water-laden city, eerily similar to our dear crescent, in which bicycles have personalities and bureaucratic offices operate on moving steamboats. Audiences will follow the sweaty city’s inhabitants through 12 episodes over three years.

This Sweaty City is written by GRP members Chris Kaminstein, Shannon Flaherty, and Will Bowling.

Live performances include:

May 12 - 13, 2013 
"Episode 1: Dead Man Waking Up”
The Shadowbox Theatre, 2400 St. Claude Avenue

November 22 - 23, 2013, as part of the New Orleans Fringe Festival
"Episode 2: G.E. Bulova Electric Clock Radio"
Luthjen's Dance Hall, Chartres and Marigny St.

May 2  - 3, 2014
"Episode 3: The Teetotaler"
The Shadowbox Theatre, 2400 St. Claude Avenue
Photos from the episode here (by Jess Pinkham)

The episodes have included the voices of over 28 local performers including Aurora Nealand, Andy Vaught, John Grimsley, Emilie Whelan, AJ Allegra, Ian Hoch, Nick Slie, Dylan Hunter, Molly Ruben-Long, Donald Lewis, Jen Pagan, Owen Ever, Shannon Flaherty, Will Bowling, Emily Slazer, Bonnie Gabel, Brain Fabry-Dorsam, C.J. Hunt, Todd D'Amour, Margee Green, Zeb Hollins, Cecile Monteyne, Eric Charleston, Sherria Marina, Veronica Russell, Pamela D. Roberts, Dane Rhodes, and Chris Kaminstein. Original music by Peter Bowling and featuring musicians Free Feral, William Bowling, and Dylan Hunter.

Instant Misunderstanding

Nov. 14 – 18, 2012
New Orleans Fringe Festival
Den of Muses (Architect St., Lakeside)

Nov. 30 – Dec. 8, 2012
Encore! 5 Fringe Shows Extended
The Art Klub (Michalopoulos Studios – 513 Elysian Fields)

The third piece in GRP’s political trilogy (Whatever Just Happened, Didn’t Happen and Our Man were the first and second installations), Instant Misunderstanding is an implosive exploration of technological anxieties in a digital age. Past and present collide in a whirlwind of sandwiches, phone conferences, tea, and computer commands as two brothers, Johannes and Johannes Gutenberg, struggle to invent the internet and propel themselves into a confusing and uncertain future.

Instant Misunderstanding is conceived and performed by GRP’s William Bowling and Christopher Kaminstein, written by the duo and collaborator Sascha Stanton-Craven, and directed by Andrew Vaught. Photos by Victoria Pisarello.

In February 2014, Instant Misunderstanding was subsequently performed at Marlboro College and Lyndon State College in Vermont as part of Kingdom County Productions' performance season.