A LABORATORY FOR ACTOR TRAINING Experimental Theater Company (ALATetc)is a Brooklyn-based organization committed to creating and curating bold works for the stage, socially conscious performance projects and community-building events. ALATetc engages a fluid collective of artists and activists dedicated to developing young theater artists and new audiences by making theater that provokes dialogue and heightens our awareness of personal ethics.
We are officially launching the New Year and a new era with… IN THE THROES OF THE THAW “Rivers in extremely cold climates freeze over in winter. In the spring when they thaw the sound of ice cracking is an incredibly violent sound. The more extensive and severe the freeze, the more thunderous the thaw. Yet, at the end of the cracking, breaking, violent period, the river is open, life-giving, life-carrying. No one says, ‘let’s not suffer the thaw…’” – Mary E. Membane Two explosive weeks of theater in New York City with world renowned performer & teacher Roberta Carreri of Odin Teatret, Denmark
...the 2009 COMING UP TALLER AWARD presented by the PRESIDENT'S COMMITTEE on the ARTS and the HUMANITIES for our SHAKESPEARE REMIX program. This prestigious award recognizes and supports outstanding after-school arts and humanities programs for children, especially those with great potential, but limited outlets for creative expression.
SHAKESPEARE REMIX is an after-school youth development program at four NYC Public High Schools in Lower Manhattan, Harlem, the Bronx and Brooklyn, that culminates with students performing alongside professional theatre artists in fully produced Shakespeare productions at Off-Broadway theatres. Remix students accomplish a great feat. They fully debate the critical social and political questions of the play, they decode the meaning of Shakespeare's text and weave their own writing into the fabric of the script. The students work with Epic Artists as mentors and cast mates to rehearse and perform this production, speaking Shakespeare's language with truth and courage while creating a bridge from these plays to their time through their own words and actions.
We want you to come check out why we won. We invite you to see Epic's next two Remixes:
Admission is FREE!
December 17-19, 2009 SHAKESPEARE REMIX MACBETH Directed by Melissa Friedman Costumes by Margaret E. Weedon Featuring students from Chelsea High School & Epic artists Kathleen Chalfant, John Keabler, Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr. and James Wallert
The Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street For reservations: 212.613.5434
February 4-6, 2010 SHAKESPEARE REMIX MACBETH Directed by Ron Russell Featuring students from Bronx High School for Writing and Communication Arts & Epic artists John Keabler and Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr.
The Pregones Theater, 571-575 Walton Avenue (between 149th & 150th Streets) in the Bronx
For reservations: 212.613.5434
ALATetc celebrates and congratulates Epic Theatre!
