ON STAGE
DEATH AT FILM FORUM
Death at Film Forum follows four hip, overweening cinephiles as they compete in the cruelest of cruelties: an Indie Film-off with one auteur left standing. See the play NYTheatre.com calls "remarkable," "melancholic" and "one of the funniest scripts I've seen all year." (Click here to read the full review.)
Observe the young artists-in-training fight and flail their way through this Project Runway-style art-house cinema competition, where the impulse to create, the impulse to destroy, and the impulse to carry on (despite everything) conquer all. A Teutonic host and a weirdly influential girlfriend join them to send-up and celebrate both the cinematic auteurs of the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s and our generation’s would-be artistes.
Shows are Saturday, June 7 @ 8:00pm, Sunday, June 8 @ 5:00pm, Thursday, June 19 @ 7:00pm, and Saturday, June 28 @ 2:00pm at The Brick.
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ON STAGE
IN BIG CITIES WE ARE SENTIMENTAL
The Old Kent Road Theater comes to the Ontological-Hysteric Theater for a one-night only event. On Saturday, March 8, the Old Kent Road Theater will workshop its newest play, In Big Cities We are Sentimental. Tickets are available at the door for $5.
I.B.C.W.A.S. delves into sad love and suicide. In bursts of text, pieces of sound, fractures of movement, and one elaborate puppet-sculpture used far too modestly, six contemporaries mark a path through casual melancholy and near-misses, negotiating time and space like the subject does in a waking dream—occasionally awed but all-together accepting of circumstance. It is a happy play, if you are the sort who gets your happiness from mellow floods of caffeine and the mistake of waking too early on weekend mornings.
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ON STAGE
MOTHER MARY AT BABY JESUS FESTIVAL
Scott Eckert makes his Old Kent Road Theater directing debut with Mother Mary Come to Me, presented at The Brick Theater's Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee. Written by Eric Bland and starring Brian Barrett, Bibiann Choi and Siobhan Doherty, Mother Mary explores the relationship between Mary and Joseph afer Jesus' real mother, Sheila, dies during childbirth.
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ON STAGE
THE CHILDREN OF TRUFFAUT EXTENDED
Federico Fellini, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder walked into a bar?
After a successful run at The Brick Theater's The Pretentious Festival, the Old Kent Road Theater's newest play has been extended! Truffaut is a melancholic orgy of angst-ridden transgression, diffident bluster, and casual nostalgia--in essence, an authentic hipster love story. This ain't yer momma's arthouse. Unless your momma is the lovechild of Marcello Mastroianni and Hanna Schygulla. In which case, I'd like to meet her.
Catch the play that NYTheatre.com calls "pure inspiration."
July 26-29 @ The Brick. Tickets on sale soon.
PRESS ON TRUFFAUT AND THE FESTIVAL
NYTheatre.com Podcast (with Eric Bland)
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ONLINE
ERIC BLAND INTERVIEWED IN NYTHEATRE.COM PODCAST
Leonard Jacobs, National Theatre Editor for Backstage, interviewed Eric and a panel of other Pretentious Festival playwrights for NYTheatre.com. Eric weighs in on the meaning of "pretentious" and discusses the origins of and inspiration for the Old Kent Road Theater's newest play, The Children of Truffaut.
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AWARDS
GRINGO WOWS AT WONDERLAND
First produced earlier this year at UNDER St. Marks, The Gringo of the Deli Acapulco was adapted and re-mounted for The Wonderland One-Act Festival at Theatre Row. Starring its original cast, Scott Eckert and Reema Zaman, Gringo was selected as a Top-Ten play at the festival (from hundreds of submissions). Reema was also nominated for the Wonderland Best Actress award.
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ON STAGE
I FELT SO FREE PREMIERE
The Old Kent Road Theater's sixth play premiered on Thursday, May 10, at the Tiny Theater Festival. Like other plays in this Brick Theater/Ontological-Hysteric Incubator festival, Felt takes place on a 6'x6'x6' stage. Unlike the others, it stars a life-sized canvas puppet.
Nothing really matters. Anyone can see.
Nothing really matters to me.
But Marty isn’t nothing. He’s free.