World Premiere Preview (November 6-8, 2009)

The Neo-Futurists hit a marvelous milestone this week--our 7,000th original TML play!

(We also have 7,001 and 7,002.)

While in a general sense, this 7,000th play is accredited to all the Neo-Futurists who have passed through the Neo-Futurarium, who have made this feat possible; in a more specific sense the 7,000th Too Much Light play was written by Caitlin Stainken, and is titled Subtexting. This was determined by noting at which point in the selection process the play was chosen. It is not, of course, an indication of it being the 7,000th play performed...we never bothered to come up with a system of how to keep track of that, and it would surely be an impossible task to figure out which one was which without the ability to bend time and space.

This number also does not include however many plays our comrades in New York City have made for TML over in their neck of the nation. I'm not sure what their exact number is (one of you please comment to let me know). Hitting 7,002 after nearly 21 years comes out to an average of 334 plays a year, and the NY Neos are about to celebrate their 5th Anniversary, so if their average is anything like ours, it would come out to 1,670 plays total. Of course, they also roll the dice to figure out how many plays get changed, so fate could easily make that total significantly higher or lower.

Anyhow...there are seven world premieres this week, including the illustrious 7,000th play, written and performed for you by the cast of Megan, Eliza, Ryan, Mary, Kurt, Caitlin, Tim, and John:

• Manifesto Destiny (Tim Reid)
• Subtexting (Caitlin Stainken)
• JackChiang (Kurt Chiang)
• Box (Mary Fons-Misetic)
• Paranoianaut (John Pierson)
• fellow castmember interviews megan for jobs she's already been interviewed for to make a point about how unnecessarily patronizing job interviews are (Megan Mercier)
• ghost bike (Megan Mercier)

Come out and celebrate this momentous occasion with us!

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

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A lingering FEAR.

A sampling of photos taken on closing night (Halloween!) of FEAR, from the Fools Machine Collective's interpretation of The Fall of the House of Usher (all shots courtesy of Dramaturg/Narrator Evan Hanover). Thanks for coming out and experiencing the show.

We hope you eventually enjoy a night's sleep when you don't wake up in a cold sweat, chilled to the bone with existential dread.

Phil, where are you?

Phil Ridarelli is an ensemble member here at the Neo-Futurists, and he hasn't been in the show for a while. Eliza and I were thinking of his play, sham(e), and we came across this GEM, here, on the internet. Enjoy.

Phil's in ATC's yeast nation (the triumph of life), written by esteemed alumni Greg Kotis. Check it out before it ends on November 8th.

See you soon, Phil.

World Premiere Preview (October 29-31, 2009)

This entire post is being written by a man with a flashlight under his chin. I suppose this also means I need to stretch out the vowels and use very macabre words like...well, like "macabre."

BOOOOooooo...The Neo-Fuuuuuuturists scared up TWOOOOOO NEWWWWW PLAAAAAAYS for YOOOOOOOU this week!

(Yeah, that's inane. Enough of that.)

Bilal, Caitlin, Tim, Ryan, Eliza, Megan, Kurt, and Mary have two world premieres for the audience this week:

• What the F@#k? F@#k This. (Ryan Walters)
• Megan said: "Write about something you're passionate about." (Mary Fons-Misetic)

And one play that ROSE FROM THE GRAVE TO FEAST ON YOUR STILL LIVING FLESH!!!!

• Safety Saver (Caitlin Stainken)

Have a safe Halloween, everybody. But not too safe. Insert maniacal laughter.

Thank you Thursday

We wouldn't be here without some help from our friends.
THANK YOU to Eric and Jenna, who help to make our office friendly to the eye and with less mess, who began as interns for Film Fest, and return to lend their skilled prowess.

Dontcha Wish.

And some things, you just have to see for yourself to believe them.

Take for example, this short clip of Jessica Anne laying down some lyrical flow (NSFW):

Excitement.

I'm memorizing some lines for tonights performance of Too Much Light, and I just want to say that I am really excited to perform the play NeoBusTracker. I won't give away too much, but here are a few of my favorite lines from the piece:

-- "Well, I don't know where it is."

-- "That would be wonderful, wouldn't it?"

-- "Foster and Kimball."

-- "We will never know where it is."

History is going to be made. Tonight.

World Premiere Preview (October 23-25, 2009)

We dedicate our shows. You won't often get a chance to see it, because it's something that happens during our pre-show circle, or "love," as we call it, when we're getting ourselves psyched to do the show and assigning ourselves the tasks of rolling in the audience or name-tagging. We ask each other who we're doing the show for; sometimes it's just a lark and sometimes it's sincere. Tonight, perhaps, we may do the show for recently passed television icon Soupy Sales.

I cannot recall if I have ever dedicated a World Premiere post to anybody. So I'm going to open it up to you, the readers. Who am I writing this post in honor of, and why?

Ryan, Bilal, Megan, Tim, Eliza, Mary, and Kurt made eight new plays for you. Actually, they made more than that, but only eight of them are going to be seen in the show this week. Those plays are called:

• Cat vs. Boy (Eliza Burmester)
• Still-Life with Orange Slice (Tim Reid)
• Objects Heavier Than Air (Bilal Dardai)
• (for stjepan on our one year anniversary) (Mary Fons-Misetic)
  
• NeoBusTracker (Ryan Walters)
• ATTEMPT (Ryan Walters)
• JULIE MAGLOSKY IS A PSYCHO WHORE (Kurt Chiang)
• Playing Catch With an Actor (Kurt Chiang)

If you ask us to dedicate this post to your girlfriend Alicia who you're sorry you hurt and you miss her and you want the two of you to give it one more chance so could you please play that Phil Collins song about giving it just one more night...then you may be confused about who you've contacted.