Brooklyn Roommates Open Their Six-Bedroom Brownstone to the Public for a Whimsical Theatrical Happening

Brooklyn, NY, January, 12, 2011 — Jordan Dann, a Brooklyn based theatre artist and educator, is producing a theatrical happening called, “233A Play,” co-written by Wind Dell Woods. The cast includes her 5 roommates, (among others), and will take place throughout their six-bedroom brownstone in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.

The play is about a group of housemates living together in Brooklyn. Domestic disputes, sex with roommates, artistic disillusions, catastrophe and exaltation ensue during the hour-long performance. The roommates will open their doors for 4 nights to a group of 10 audience members at a time. The audience will enter, have a glass of wine, and mingle with the other audience members, actors, and roommates, then the doorbell rings and the play begins.  The audience will move from room to room as they watch the play unfold.

Dann’s inspiration for the piece came from a quote by American theatre director, Anne Bogart: “Do not assume that you have to have some prescribed conditions to do your best work. Do not wait. Do not wait for enough time or money to accomplish what you think you have in mind.”

“Renting rehearsal and theatre space in NYC is expensive, and I thought: why not take this idea quite literally?” poses Dann. “This project is really about having a disorienting artistic experience.  What are the self-imposed boundaries that we create that disallow us from the freedom and immediacy of being creative?  What are the assumptions we have about the relationship between the actor and the audience?  Why can’t someone who has never acted before pick up a script and enter into an imaginative world?” 

Part of the intrigue will be finding the exact location of the performance, which has to be kept hush-hush in order to avoid any difficulty with the landlord.  So, if you wish to be one of the lucky 40 audience members who get to experience this unique and whimsical evening of theatre – the hunt begins now!

More information may be found at: http://233aplay.wordpress.com/

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:

Saturday, January 29th 8pm

Friday, February 4th 7pm

Saturday, February 5th 8pm

Sunday, February 6th 8pm

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