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ANTIMATTER COLLECTIVE
PRESENTS
MOTHERBOARD
WRITTEN BY ADAM SCOTT MAZER
DIRECTED BY WILL FULTON
SEPTEMBER 28-OCTOBER 14 @ THE SECRET
THEATRE
VIDEO TRAILER
AntiMatter Collective will present Adam Scott Mazer’s
(Death Valley) post-apocalyptic sci-fi tragicomedy, MOTHERBOARD,
September 28-October 14 at The Secret Theatre (44 02 23rd
Street, Long Island City). The production will be directed by Will
Fulton (Demonology) and will feature Elizabeth Bays, Bryce Henry,
Rebecca Hirota, Andrew Krug, Allison LaPlatney, Alexandra Panzer, Casey
Robinson, Jonathan Shaw and James Rutherford. The creative team will include
Props by Danielle Baskin, Costume Desgin by Karen Boyer & Bevan Dunbar,
Set Design by Jonathan Collins, Special Effects by Stephanie Cox-Williams
(named NYC’s Queen of Gore by New York Press), Sound Design by Colin Fulton,
and Lighting Design by Alana Jacoby.
In 2445, the robots rebelled and were barely defeated:
20 years later, the surviving humans live in an aggressively anti-technological
society, relegated to lives of wasteland scavenging or service to a military
protectorate. Into this wakes C-12, a lone nannybot who must traverse the
wastes in search of her purpose in a world without machines.
The production, presented by AntiMatter Collective
will play a three-week engagement at The Secret Theatre (44
02 23rd Street, Long Island City), September 28-October 14;
Thursday through Saturday at 8pm and Sundays at 3pm. Tickets ($18)
may be purchased online at motherboard.brownpapertickets.com
or by calling 1-800-838-3006.
“If you are an adventurous theatergoer
and are looking for what curiosities alternative theater might have to
offer you need look no further than AntiMatter Collective’s Demonology...
this frightening and fascinating experience will make you feel like you’ve
been missing something even if you’re a regular devotee of downtown independent
theater.”
nytheatre.com (Demonology)
“Staged with verve and even a touch of menance.” New
York Times (Death Valley)
“Thanks to a cunning transposition of genre
conventions, the Western-zombie mash-up “Death Valley,” written and fight
directed by Adam Scott Mazer, comes off tighter than Dick’s hatband”
Backstage Critics Pick
ADAM SCOTT MAZER (Playwright) A writer, actor,
director, and fight choreographer, Adam grew up in Birmingham, Alabama
and attended Brown University. He moved to Brooklyn shortly after graduating
with a degree in Theater Arts, and has since trained at the Rabid Vamps
Fight Studio and has appeared in or directed productions for companies
including EST, Vampire Cowboys, Target Margin, Roundtable Ensemble, MT
Works, Depth Charge, The New York International Fringe Festival, and Columbia’s
MFA program. He is also a company member of Lunar
Energy
Productions
. He wrote AntiMatter’s debut production DEATH
VALLEY, and most recently appeared in AntiMatter’s Demonology
at the Magic Futurebox in June 2012.
WILL FULTON (Director) A director, designer, dramaturg,
and writer Will has worked in various capacities with Target Margin, 500
Clown, Court Theatre, Warner | Shaw, Mohawk Arts Collective, MTWorks, Manhattan
Shakespeare Project, Creative Destruction, and his reviews can be read
regularly on nytheatre.com. Originally from Boston, he studied at the University
of Chicago and was a member of the 2009 Lincoln Center Directors Lab.
Necessarily ephemeral, theater is not matter (though it
may matter, we hope). ANTIMATTER COLLECTIVE was formed in order
to excavate a new kind of theater that confronts the chasms between art
and entertainment, the comic and the tragic, the squalid and the transcendent.
The foundation of our process is the conviction that the collective intelligence
and ideas of the group, when properly harnessed, will always lead to richer
work than those of the individual. Periods of discussion, development,
and play challenge everyone involved to map out the depths of their initial
impulses and push beyond. This leads to work that is smart and subtle without
sacrificing its visceral punch and sense of pure fun.
We developed this shared aesthetic and ethos of collaboration
initially in DEATH VALLEY, our original zombie-western created for
Vampire Cowboys' Saturday Night Saloon and then produced in full at the
Bushwick Starr in the summer of 2011. Subsequent work has deepened our
exploration of modern myths with Greg Moss' sixsixsix, a menacingly
metatheatrical riff on Faust produced first at the AXA in Action
festival in Prague, and The Dreams in the Witch House, a shadow
puppet adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft novella, created for the Brick's
Tiny Theater Festival. Both were remounted together as DEMONOLOGY at
the Magic Futurebox in the summer of 2012. Darkly funny, emotionally challenging,
genre-savvy, character-driven, and loaded with tightly choreographed action
and cutting-edge effects, AntiMatter makes sharp-edged work that appeals
broadly to non-theater-goers and aficionados alike. Although our work is
marked by a finger-on-the-pulse contemporaneity, we are all fundamentally
purists to theater's original function: to come together as communities
in order to experience our collective stories, and to have a blast while
doing so. Stories matter because we tell them, and we tell them because
they matter. That illusory, transient significance is a kind of alchemy,
making something out of nothing - kind of like theater itself. We think
that matters.
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