http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:44:33 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/07/13/142248.php#comment-758955 My Fair Heathen Productions presents "Memoirs of Madness" Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell Tale Heart" and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall Paper" Directed by Janet Bobcean October 30 to November 23, 2008 The Players Theatre 115 MacDougal Street www.myfairheathen.com New York, NY-(October 1, 2008) My Fair Heathen Productions continues their foray into the dark and irreverent with the fall show, "Memoirs of Madness". Opening Halloween weekend, this horror double feature adapts two classic diaries of diseased psyches! Charlotte Perkins Gilman's, "The Yellow Wallpaper" is an indictment of the patriarchial prescription for 'bed-rest' forced on a woman with post-partum depression. Despite her yearning to for moderate activity and creative writing, the medical establishment as embodied in her physician husband quarantines her to a room in the country where the abhorrent wallpaper consumes her. With each diary entry, witness her initial revulsion by and eventual compulsion toward the graphic nightmare that is the wall covering in her isolated room. Next up is their take on that horror short of infamous notoriety, Edgar Allan Poe's, "The Tell-Tale Heart". Everyone knows this chilling narrative by a murderer whose guilt and psychosis betray his "perfect triumph"! Immerse yourselves in this multi-sensory melange of macabre minds! "Memoirs of Madness" opens on October 30th and will be performed Wednesday through Sundays at 8:00 pm. Sunday matinees at 2:00 pm. Tickets are $20 and are avialable online at www. theatremania. com or call Theatre Mania at 212-352-3101. $15.00 student and senior discount tickets available. Special Halloween Night Show starts at 6pm. All tickets for this performance are $15.00 Free Give aways! One lucky person wins Tickets to the Misfits Show! Founded by Actor/Artist/ Producers Megan O'Leary and Gretchen Knapp, My Fair Heathen Productions is a Not-For-Profit Theatre and Video Production Company based in Park Slope. We create daring, dissenting theatre and video on our own terms. Once a five-piece Blues/Punk cover band, we have since become a formidable force on the fringe theatre scene. We have produced an adaptation of Dostoevsky's "The Grand Inquisitor", written and performed an original play at Scotland's Edinburgh Fringe Festival, featured two runs of Dario Fo's "Accidental Death Of An Anarchist" in both Boston and New York City, and shot a travel video on location in South Africa. Cast: Megan O'Leary - "The Yellow Wallpaper" Gretchen Knapp - "The Tell-Tale Heart" Production Crew: Sound Design- Keller McGuiness Projections, web and graphic design- Dave Eastwood and Willen Soares Set Design- Jen Spoley and Gretchen Knapp Lightig Design- Oliver Brooks Stage Manager- Joel Rudzinski My Fair Heathen Productions: Our purpose is to critically explore the power, mystery, tragedy, and hilarity of human experience. We select pieces from the repository of creative fiction that speak to these aspects of humanity while showcasing our original works. As our interests are varied and unique, we promise to deliver progressive, multi-media theatre and video productions. Our team has skills and talents ranging from video, music, and graphic design to emotionally and intellectually developed writing and direction. We challenge the assumptions and institutions that keep people down, yet are not afraid to express sensitivity and vulnerability. From stage adaptations of our favorite short stories to non-fiction documentary videos, from interpreting classics to original sketch comedy, My Fair Heathen Productions will bring daring, dissenting, multi-media packages to the stage and beyond! Press reservations or interview inquiries with Megan O'Leary and Gretchen Knapp : Please call Michael Martinez, 212-712-7362. Location: The Players Theatre Loft at The Players Theatre 115 MacDougal Street at Minetta Lane 212-475-1449 www. theplayerstheatre. com Subway: A,C,E,B,D,F,V to West 4th Street Michael Martinez Press Representative 212-712-7362 212-712-7362 758955@blogcritics.org Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:44:33 EDT