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“Stuffed into a Bratwurst” :

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Harry Porter and the Heretics of W.O.S. was a thirty day challenge  By Professor Renee Fox to recruit an intrepid band of students from her LIT80Y Course and adapt J.K. Rowling’s characters and  novels into a performance of some sort, recontextualizing the Harry Potterverse and using the material to speak to culture of The University of California Santa Cruz, Silicon Valley,  and the conditions facing local students here and now, in their own pursuit of higher education and the mastery of “magic,” (whatever magic would signify or represent in the world of “Slugworts,” if you will…) Professor Fox’s highly anticipated and wickedly successful Textual Analysis megacourse: Literature 80Y – Harry Potter, was a ten week long journey through all 7 of Rowling’s Books, with over 380 students, eight Teaching Assistants (2 per House) on a collective mission to examine the similarities and differences  between reading the series as a child and reading the texts critically, as adults and scholars and questioning what new significance emerges from the text, when one reads or transplants the world of Harry Potter to the U.S.A.

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The W.O.S. Institute (Wizards Of STEM)

Feb. 11th: Day One

Table read and auditions

“In the Bunker” – 10 days of writing, rehearsal, digital asset creation, and Tech: click image for album

Highlander Tech / Dress Rehearsal (there can only be one…) click image for album

Harry Porter and the Heretics of W.O.S. (Theatrical Intervention ) T-Day click image for album

 

Harry Soundtrack Playlist:

Mar. 11 Day 30:

Harry Postmortem and raw footage screening:

Full Video of Performance? Lecture? Event? Who knows….

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Odyssey 2016 was a one year, intensive research and production project that brought together a creative team from around the globe: Historians, classical studies scholars, professional theater practitioners, digital artists and media designers worked in collaboration with teams of student research interns in a collective effort to reimagine Homer’s epic tale as a work of ambulatory theater that would open on a (reverse-seating) proscenium thrust mainstage, travel through an interactive exhibition of  large scale installation art (with Odysseus among the audience group), encounter other members of the cast along the way and “experience,” first hand, Odysseus’  journey home to Penelope, Telemachus, and the suitors who have taken “Island Hospitality” to its brazen and orgiastic limit point, up and down the hallowed halls of the now bushy and unkempt  ancestral palace grounds, for the climax of the play.

Six months into the project, during the summer break, I abandoned the script I was working on for the theatrical portion of the show and began to write a short story in metered verse instead. The result was “The Mission,” which would later become the inspiration for the 2nd half of the play and serve as a bridge between the two spheres of dramatic action: Odysseus’ departure from the ancient world of the Mainstage and his return to the postmodern world of the exhibition space and blackbox theater at the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) where Odysseus, now dressed as a homeless veteran, is harassed by Real estate developer, Antinous Baros and the New Ithaca building project’s security unit during , “Book XVIII – the Beggar King of New Ithaca.” 

Under the direction of Kimberly Jannarone and an extremely talented production team, the show successfully navigated a complex series of tech rehearsals in three different locations, with final dress rehearsal taking place on Election Night 2016. By the time the cast and crew had finished washing off the blood of the suitors from the final scene and left the theater that night, like Odysseus, we all returned home to a very different world than the one we had departed.

The Mission by Stephen Richter. For printed copy click the image below:

A man returns to San Francisco after a ten year absence to find his home replaced by an exclusive condominium development. When asked to leave by security, the situation escalates. The form of the book that of a Real Estate Brochure, from the development company that built New Ithaca on top of Marine Corps Veteran, Ulises Malheur’s childhood home. Click below to read the eBook version . 

 

 

Channel 850B Ithaca consisted of a 3 x 3 70′ LED Monitor Grid Video Installation, playing on a loop throughout the performance inside the New Ithaca Complex.

“The Beggar King of Ithaca” was an interactive performance component bridging the two worlds of the play together. Click image below for image Gallery:

 

Winner of Chuck Lorre’s Dharma Grace Award in playwriting and the University of California Santa Cruz Humanities Dean’s Award. “More than simply an adaptation of Euripedes’ Medea, this multi-media, transtemporal piece draws on a variety of literary and cultural works, from The Tempest, especially stagings that reverse the gender and race of the characters, to the Latin American telenovela and media imagery of the black body. The result is a striking experiment in linguistic and cultural translation.” – Susan Gillman

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A journalist investigates a government conspiracy involving nano-pharma-mechanical mind control, the erasure of memory, and a disturbing trend of missing persons. Dose – a neo noir for the stage, is a transtemporal / semiotic translation of Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus and Leonard Horn’s 1972 television pilot Hunter, that explores the issues of homelessness in Santa Cruz, the overreaching tendencies of humankind at both the individual and institutional levels, the construction and systematic loss of selfhood, and the marginalization of the ethnic or socioeconomic other.

An impromptu morning experiment with the opening scene from Dose – a neo noir for the stage with: Anthony Aguilar – Special Agent Sugarfoot & Paul’s Double Mónica (Nick) Andrade – Camera 1 & 2 Taylor Backman – Dr. Ethan Meyers (Eteocles) Zach Beckman – Paul Hunter in the onscreen film & Squid Boy Lucas Brandt – Rat Victoria Mannah – Skinny Ashley Mannina – Barnacle & Nurse Boucher (Ismene) Sierra Parsons – Ghost (Leader of the Chorus of Colonus) Stephen Richter – Hitch Adan Rodriguez – Special Agent Broadside & Paul’s Triple Christopher Rodriguez – Dr. Craig Regents (Creon) Neiry Rojo Sanchez – Director Paul Rossi – Paul Hunter (Polynices) and choreography Randall Saas – Delphín the Dolphin Dream (Delphic Oracle) Written by Stephen Richter & Mónica (Nick) Andrade

 

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