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Tuesday, January 19, 2010
TEASER COW opened Thursday. The first reviews are in—and it looks like we’ve got a hit on our hands! Please come check it out.
"TEASER COW is extraordinary... Chapman's writing is brilliant... One Year Lease's production of TEASER COW should be the first play you make sure you don't miss in 2010."
—Richard Hinjosa, NYTheatre.com
Read the full review here: http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?t=teas9476
"A viscerally thrilling piece of work... One of the most interesting pieces I've seen in ages."
—Duncan Pflaster, "Burger Kingdom Come," Broadway World
Read the full review here: http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/teaser_cow_Burger_Kingdom_Come_20100117
We run until February4th. Go here for tickets:
http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/teaser-cow_161503/
Info is below.
One Year Lease theater company presents the world premiere of
teaser cow
by Clay McLeod Chapman
directed by Ianthe Demos
Meet an epically dysfunctional family plucked from Greek mythology and dropped square in the middle of Fast Food Nation. In Clay McLeod Chapman’s teaser cow, King Minos is a cattle baron hell-bent on world beef domination. Queen Pasiphaë can’t stay off the sauce. Their daughter spends her days slinging burgers and huffing cow patties to get high. And their son? He’s the Minotaur — a half-man, half-bull monster that only a mother could love.
Toss in a twelve-step program, a couple of severed fingers, and a kid-hating corporate mascot in a plush suit, and you’ve got one deliciously disturbing dark comedy.
Teatro Circulo
64 East 4th Street (between 2nd Avenue and the Bowery in the East Village)
New York, NY 10003
Running through Thursday, February 4th
Performances are Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 3pm.
Tickets: $18 and can be purchased online at http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/teaser-cow_161503/ or by phone at (212) 352-3101
Starring:
Danny Bernardy*, Sarah-Jane Casey, Nick Flint, Babis Gousias, Jim Kane, Christina Bennett Lind*, Gregory Waller*
*denotes a member of Actors’ Equity Association
Production Team:
Lighting Designer: Mike Riggs
Set Designer: James Hunting
Costume Designer: Kay Lee
Sound Design/Original Music: Nathan Leigh
Stage Manager: Rosy Garner
Choreographer: Austin McCormick
Video Director: Nick Flint
Illustration/Animation: Chloe Benetatos
Dramaturg: Jessica Kaplow Applebaum
Assistant Dramaturg: Amanda Culp
Assistant Lighting Designer/Lighting Programmer: Chris Brusberg
Assistant Set Designer: Kira Nehmer
Assistant Sound Design: Sarah Tundermann
Production Assistant: Megan Griffith
Publicity: Sarah Parvis
General Manager: Jess Chase
Graphic Designer: Brian Michael Thomas/Our Hero Productions
About the Playwright
Clay McLeod Chapman is the creator of the acclaimed storytelling session the Pumpkin Pie Show, which has been performed around the country and around the world for the past ten years. He wrote the book for the recent hit musical Hostage Song with Obie-award winning Kyle Jarrow. He is currently writing the book for a new musical with Grammy-winner Bruce Hornsby, directed by Tony-winner Kathleen Marshal, titled SCKBSTD—as well as The Nitpicker, a new musical with rocker Mary McBride, directed by Scott Ellis. Chapman is also on the writing-team for THE RIDE, a multi-media musical tour through New York City, produced by Counts Media, Inc., and Blue Man Group. Chapman’s other plays include bar flies, lee’s miserables, No Exitway, duct-tape to family-time, drinking games, redbird, jewish mothers, junta high, nested doll, and volume of smoke.
About One Year Lease
Founded in 2000, One Year Lease (OYL) is an ensemble theater company made up of seven actors, four designers, two dramaturgs, and one artistic director who work together to produce high-quality, provocative theater. The ensemble, featuring American and international artists, performs in New York and abroad. We also host a summer apprenticeship program in northern Greece, where college students work, live, and study with OYL actors, designers, and directors. OYL’s recent productions: Eugene Ionesco’s Bald Soprano (Teatro Circulo, New York); Ariel Dorfman’s The Resistance Trilogy, which includes Reader (The New York International Fringe Festival), Death and the Maiden (Theatro Imeras, Athens, Greece), and Widows (performed throughout northern Greece); Brendan Cowell’s Bed; Caridad Svich’s Iphigenia Crash Land Falls on the Neon Shell that Was Once her Heart (a rave fable) (Walkerspace, New York); and PHAEDRA x 3, which featured Racine’s Phèdre, Matthew Maguire’s Phaedra, and Sarah Kane’s Phaedra’s Love (Monodendri, Greece, and The Cherry Lane Theatre, New York).
