Events

Common Hall Village 20

Premier date: Jan. 26, 2012, 8 p.m.
Incubator Arts Project

Created by Aaron Meicht and Scott Blumenthal
with Daniel Baker

January 26 through February 4, 2012
Incubator Arts Project at St. Mark's Church
131 East 10th Street, NYC, 10003
Tickets available now!

On the eve of the Festival of the Fifteenth Generation, the Pioneers of Village 20 gather to watch The Council’s official broadcast. The vodka is free, the band plays anthems and local favorites, and the villagers wonder, “Will the soil recover? Are the men in the corner really here to help?” Before the celebration ends, a shocking interruption will expose a fissure in the OZET’s Utopian facade, and the Pioneers will face the beginning of a new, troubled age.

CVH20 is inspired in equal parts by images from the Romanian Revolution, the writings of J.D. Bernal, the life and music of Woody Guthrie, and the creators' years as participant-observers in the local scene at the 80-year-old Washington Heights watering hole Reynold's Cafe.

We will be performing CHV20 from January 26 through February 4, 2011, at the historic theater at St. Mark's Church, home to Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theater for over 30 years. The show will presented by Incubator Arts Project (founded by the OHT to develop the work of emerging artists) as part of their Winter season.

Cast

DZIDZIA ... Liesl Tommy
ZURAB ... Brendan Spieth
NIKOLOZ ... Daniel Baker
MALKHAZI ... Scott Blumenthal
THE DRUMMER ... Brendan Dougherty
THE TRUMPET PLAYER ... Aaron Meicht

COUNCILOR ... Paul Zimet
SUBVERSIVE #1 ... Jesse Perez
SUBVERSIVE #2 ... Paula Matthusen
SUBVERSIVE #3 ... David Hopkins

Crew

Sets by Britt Plunkett
Costumes by Kathleen Geldard
Lights by Thomas Dunn
Video by Dan Scully
Sound by Daniel Kluger, Brandon Wolcott