On Fri. Sept. 20 and Sat. Sept. 21, we’ll be celebrating our bi-annual event
the Welcome to Boog City 18 Arts Festival.
We will livestream the goings-on to
https://www.facebook.com/groups/115605743040
And it will be available shortly thereafter in full the next day at
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGD_RIKdy7P9fdpIugMgoLg/featured
There is an $8 suggested donation, which can be sent to Boog City via:
Laurie Carlos (pictured)
These plays are about intimacy. the subtle shadings. approach/connect/ disconnect. When we cannot comprehend, when we dislike and are offended, When we draw close and cannot stay close. How do we love. how are we intimate. when we are in a reverie and images appear. What do the images tell. how are we baffled by those we are drawn to. the manifold states of being close, intimate and foreign.
How are the dead not dead, also alive and familiar. The overlooked gesture. Bring it back. What does it mean. How can we simultaneously be close and parallel within our privacy and with our intimacy?
These are haunted tales, ancestral stories talking to a current moment. Shaman rituals, mystic wanderings, even when straight ahead. Nothing is straight ahead. Poetry plays live within the world of baffling contradictions, float there, report back with no explanation. Poetry plays use words as instruments of research. They find what they find.
I was exposed to N1 Theatre when I reviewed their Five Locks, Five Keys at Philly Fringe 2023 one year ago almost to the day.
I was mesmerized by the language and how the performances made me feel and how I immediately wanted more of it! I love new works and after spending the last thirteen years with community theatre I missed new, fresh words!
Boog City 2024 Poet’s Theatre differs greatly in my opinion from a regular staged reading because even with a staged reading the ideas are set, images have been created. Not our event! Within this format and venue we can explore what the reading means without prejudice. Images emerge from the texts themseves, not necessarily the act of performing. In fact, both the word and the spoken word are considered "texts."
The stories are woven together through an emphasis on poetic communication, whether it between husband and wife, friends, siblings.
I have learned a great deal about myself since joining this amazing group. I was very brush over and just get a feeling across without letting the words push the feeling.. And now, as an actor and director I am much more text driven and grateful!
These texts, these people, these moments we will share with you bring together more than twelve years of experience and programming in script and audience development not seen with any substantial effort in American theatre since the late 1990s.
We are also deeply blessed to premiere the first readings of Laurie Carlos' The Pork Chop Wars, a performance novel entrusted to Dennis Moritz and his wife Phyllis Wat for publication and dramatic presentation. For more information about Laurie aka The Mother of Us All, please click any of the following
6:00 p.m. Home Cookin’ by Lydia Cortes
My Love, Home Cooking is so many things.
She’s published 2 poetry collections, Lust for Lust and Whose Place. She’s the recipient of residencies at the MacDowell Colony and at The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
6:10 p.m. Vertigo by Valerie Fox
A woman and a man try to reconcile their younger and older selves.
Valerie Fox’s most recent volume of poetry is a collaboration with Arlene Ang, The Failed-Love Factory Auction Catalog. Other books include The Rorschach Factory, Insomniatic, and The Glass Book
6:18 p.m. Madrid by Karin Randolph
A planned trip to Madrid devolves into a purgatory of mingled voices.
Karin Randolph lives in Bushwick. Her poetry book Either She Was was a winner of the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize. She is most recently published in the 2024 New American Writing.
6:26 p.m. Bob and Cindy and the Laughing Man by Wanda Phipps
Who is the man following her at night? His humming is strangely familiar.
Wanda Phipps’s books include Mind Honey (Autonomedia), Field of Wanting: Poems of Desire (BlazeVOX [books]), and Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems (Soft Skull Press). Her poems are widely anthologized & translated into Ukrainian, Hungarian, Arabic, Galician & Bangla.
6:36 p.m. The Roman Pool
by John Rosenberg
At the Hearst Castle, San Simeon CA, two tour guides get to swim in the Roman Pool one hour each year.
John Rosenberg lives in Mar Vista, California. He doesn’t like to get water on his face.
6:46 p m. from Taxi Night by Cliff Fyman
Cellphone intimacies and secrets. The naked city shows it all.
Cliff Fyman published Taxi Night in 2021 (Long News Books, Brooklyn), At Sardi’s in 2023 (State Champs, S.F.) and looks forward to soon having a new poem in the first issue of the Nu Review of Books.
Dennis Moritz (Producer/Director) is a poet who writes a lot of plays produced mainstage and in improvised spaces. Angel Hair/United Artist books, the longtime poetry press, published two collections of his plays. The only playwright in their catalog.
Jessica E. Stinson (Producer/Director) can’t wait to take N1Theatre to the next level!
Robert Craig Baum created N1Theatre with Dennis Moritz in Vermont, NYCity, Philadelphia in December 2011. He is the Co-Founding CEO of Nanni Entertainment Group in Washington, DC and Arezzo, Italy. He is a theatre and film director, producer, writer, musician, and actor. He published Thoughtrave: An Interdimensional Conversation with Lady Gaga in April 2016 on punctum press.
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