Nature Theater of Oklahoma is a New York-based performance group under the direction of Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper. The ensemble strives to create an unsettling live situation that demands total presence from everyone in the room. The Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s mission is to explore and push the definitions of what is theatre and what is performance.
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Works:
Poetics: A ballet brut
No Dice
Rambo Solo
Romeo And Juliet
Choriographie
Life and Times
In Performance:
The Nature Theater of Oklahoma will present the New York debut of its Romeo & Juliet, a fragmented memory piece based on the classic tragedy, at The Kitchen beginning Dec. 17.
Conceived and directed by Kelly Copper and Pavol Liska, Romeo & Juliet is drawn from conversations with Nature Theater company members who called on their own incomplete and sometimes erroneous memories of Shakespeare’s work. After an international tour earlier this year, the work will play a limited New York engagement through Jan. 16, 2010.
According to press notes, “With some rather surprising twists and turns, given that no one seems to remember the exact plot, the myriad versions of the story compound in an array of competing scenarios. The participants try to invent themselves out of their own narrative blind alleys. Where memory fails, a kind of necessary creativity steps in to fill the void. What we are left with is a highly personal and original series of the famous story, infused with emotion and thoughts about love, need and the complex nature of self-sacrifice.”
The cast features Anne Gridley and Robert M. Johanson with Elisabeth Conner. The production is designed by Peter Nigrini.
Performances run Dec. 17-19; Dec. 22-23; Jan. 6-9, 2010; and Jan. 13-16, 2010.
For tickets, priced $20, visit The Kitchen.
The Kitchen is located at 512 West 19th Street in Manhattan.
