The Committee Theatre

CMTE13

2010-03-05T14:40:00.001-05:00

New. Site. Now.

what we do

2009-10-19T19:03:00.003-04:00

restructure worlds and make living people feel stuff

what are they building in there?

2009-09-30T16:20:00.001-04:00

a new website for The Committee coming soon.

really.

we promise.

is this thing on then?

2009-08-23T18:40:00.001-04:00

yes. yes it is.

2008-11-19T00:15:00.000-05:00

.coming soon.
.thecommittee.
xoD

Destination: Out-of-Order

2008-05-20T15:39:00.001-04:00

temporary loss of information

2008-02-18T13:49:00.001-05:00

end of play

2007-10-20T00:25:00.000-04:00

it's low compressed to hell but
here's the end of the play
from closing night

that's me hooting during curtain call.

strike

2007-10-13T14:36:00.000-04:00

josh making the white world black once again.

oct 1 becomes oct 2

2007-10-13T14:30:00.000-04:00

last one in the theatre on closing night.

self-portrait.

perf #13

2007-10-01T00:15:00.000-04:00

perf #13

2007-10-01T00:14:00.000-04:00

perf #12

2007-10-01T00:12:00.001-04:00

perf #12

2007-10-01T00:09:00.000-04:00

perf #12

2007-10-01T00:08:00.001-04:00

perf #11

2007-10-01T00:07:00.000-04:00

perf #11

2007-10-01T00:05:00.000-04:00

perf #10

2007-10-01T00:01:00.000-04:00

For the Cool Kids

2007-09-27T15:53:00.000-04:00

Special deal for people that read this

Special 2-for-1 tickets are available for these performances:

FRI 9/28
SAT 9/29
SUN 9/30
MON 10/1

All the performances start at 8pm and are at:

The Linhart Theater @ 440 Studios
440 Lafayette Street (across from the Public)
(Theater entrance at 436 Lafayette due to construction)

$18 bucks buys you not ONE but TWO tickets so you can bring a friend, your boss, your mom, or that nice man you met on the 6 train trying to sell you batteries.

The only way to get the deal is to write to eskimos@thecommitteetheatre.org and say you heard about the deal on the blog. Make sure you let us know how many tickets you want: 2 for 18, 4 for 36, 6 for 54, it's all good.

Cool. And since you're cool, you will want to come and enter our raffle for a swanky 8GB IPhone. Raffle tickets are only Five bucks. Can you imagine that? You could get yourself an iPhone for Five bucks but yu gotta come see the show for the chance.

Sweeeeet.

Peace out, cool kids.

perf #9

2007-09-26T22:04:00.000-04:00

perf #9

2007-09-26T22:02:00.000-04:00

perf #8

2007-09-26T22:00:00.000-04:00

perf #7

2007-09-23T13:03:00.000-04:00

perf #7

2007-09-23T13:02:00.000-04:00

perf #6

2007-09-23T13:00:00.000-04:00

perf #6

2007-09-23T12:58:00.000-04:00

Words - TONY

2007-09-20T16:50:00.000-04:00

dystopian
seedy
oily
comedian
futuristic bleakness
wintertime
thriller
sunny
"enlargement"
mystical
superb
charming
hilarious
icier
robotically
"real"
"junk"
chill
drip

Words - NYTHEATRE.com

2007-09-18T15:30:00.000-04:00

techno-thriller
Hitchcock
bureaucratic airheads
comic
sexy
tidal wave
desolation
downward-spiralling
IM/chat/blog/MySpace/web-a-holics
beautifully
carefully
dazzling
witty
deftly
sterling
terrific
entertains
provokes
cyber-/cellular-space
compelling

perf #5

2007-09-17T23:23:00.000-04:00

perf #5

2007-09-17T23:22:00.000-04:00

perf #5

2007-09-17T23:21:00.000-04:00

perf #4

2007-09-17T23:19:00.000-04:00

perf #4

2007-09-17T23:17:00.001-04:00

perf #3

2007-09-16T13:53:00.000-04:00

view from the booth

perf #2

2007-09-15T13:37:00.001-04:00

perf #2

2007-09-15T13:36:00.000-04:00

perf #2

2007-09-15T13:27:00.000-04:00

Words - The TImes

2007-09-13T10:53:00.000-04:00

outlandish
chops
mystifying
frustrating
Wookies
depressed robots
parrot
wit
feeling
versatile
strongly beating heart
deftly
awkwardly charismatic
caustic vulnerability
numbing
smitten
tenuous
nasty
clueless
bravado
complex

Words - Backstage

2007-09-13T10:49:00.000-04:00

fine
star
cubist
abstract
effectively
head scratcher
possibly metaphorical
pas de deux
compelling
banality
intriguing
evocative
abstract
surrealist
stylized
rooted
real
encourage
connections
mysteries

Words - Talk Entertainment

2007-09-13T10:47:00.000-04:00

pretend
Bullwinkle
oblique
complex
impressive
stylishly abstract
good
catastrophic
succeeded

Words - Variety

2007-09-13T10:44:00.000-04:00

James Joyce
jargon
breakdown
delete
inoffensive cog
semblance
sympathetic
jovial
doofus
meticulously
properly
tragedy
farce
postmodernist
hallunicatory
coherent
Spam-speak

where we were

2007-09-13T10:42:00.000-04:00

This is about what the space looked like two weeks ago. Thanks to Judson for snapping the pic.

ohmigod, it was really two weeks ago?!?!?

Come see what it looks like now. The New York Times says you "MUST CHECK THIS OUT!"

LEMON HOUND

2007-09-12T19:36:00.001-04:00

A nice little interview with Ken can be found here.

KAOSS PAD on opening night

2007-09-11T23:43:00.000-04:00

opening night

2007-09-11T23:38:00.000-04:00

opening night #2

2007-09-11T23:35:00.000-04:00

opening night #3

2007-09-11T23:32:00.000-04:00

after perf two

2007-09-10T01:21:00.000-04:00

we've made it through tech

we've made it through dress

we've made it through previews

AND NOW WE OPEN.

All that remains is you.

Buy tickets, come see us.

The eskimos are waiting...

Here's a picture of ken tonight (we finally got a camera!). Birthdays are special. :-)

you know, you know where you are with.

ESKIMOS opens tonight

2007-09-08T10:52:00.000-04:00

THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ESKIMOS
(or 16 words for snow)
By Ken Urban
Directed by Dylan McCullough

A man and woman in trouble. A lost cell phone. Spam-speaking Eskimos. A dark comedy about life after anti-depressants.

Sept 8th to Oct 1st • Friday -- Monday
w/ an additional show on Thu Sept 27
The Linhart Theater @ 440 Studios
440 Lafayette Street (across from the Public)
All shows at 8PM, Tix: $18

To buy tickets, go to theatremania.com
or call 212 352 3101

with Andrew Breving • Melissa Miller • Carol Monda • Michael Tisdale

Sets: Lee Savage • Lights: Thom Weaver • Sound: Elizabeth Rhodes • Costumes: Emily Rebholz

Special Benefit Performance w/ Reception on Saturday Sept 15th
Tix: $30

Tech Days I-III

2007-09-03T01:36:00.000-04:00

So we're out of the tech woods
and into the dress woods.

things exicting happening.

things unexpected.

things.

and toys.

lotsa toys.

i wish i had pictures. Donate to us so we can buy a camera and put pictures of things on the blog.

OR
please come see us starting on 9/8!

TICKETS

from a random girl

2007-08-31T00:20:00.001-04:00

i found this in my inbox tonight after a long day at the theatre:

I didn't have a username for blogspot so I decided to let you in on a
frustrating incident with my cell.

I lost my "red razr" cell when i went to watch The Simpsons. It slipped out
of my tote bag on the floor and when i realized my phone was missing (which
was only 5 mins) I ran back in and someone has stolen it already. I kept
calling my dame phone for 2 hours and I knew it was a goner. Even though
it's frustrating to lose a phone that I stupidly did not have insurance for,
I lost a very special keychain that I received for my birthday attached to
that phone. Then, I had to buy a new phone for 200 bucks (rip-off) that
doesn't have a camera, a key chain hole and it doesn't supply me the time
when I'm underground with no service. I was also charged 5 bucks for calling
411/311 a gazillion times on my friends cell. Isn't life great? Not only are
people conniving thefts (if i called a million times, the least you can do
is to give it back dammit!) but our state government has to charge us money
for an operating system that is suppose to help us. So yeah, I've been
rambling for a while. Thanks for reading it till now, if you did.

Btw, the play sounds very interesting...for the sake of the Eskimos and the
poor guy who loses his phone, I do feel compel to watch it.

Yours truly,

a random girl

reh 13

2007-08-30T12:08:00.001-04:00

betsy came in and we recorded lots of voiceovers/spam.
we'll figure out how to use them later.
but now we have the in the can.

more working through play.

more building.

still no camera.

might have to swallow my CC and go buy a new one.

NOTE: A very generous donor donated an iPhone to us. Raffle tickets will be available at the door at each performance. $5 per raffle ticket. Think of that spend $5 bucks and get an iPhone. Or even better: buy 40 tickets for $200 and increase your chances, spend less than you would at the Apple store, and donate a bunch to your favorite theatre company.

That would be us.

Remember that.

See you soon.

reh12

2007-08-30T12:05:00.000-04:00

camera died.
no pictures.
sad.

linear working through play

i'm been listening to that sunset rubdown cover of apistat commander a lot. where will that show up i wonder.

people (we love people) are building/painting/sewing things in the theater and it is all comeing together.

ever paint a black ceiling white? We all think its tons 'o' fun.

reh11

2007-08-27T19:36:00.001-04:00

first we did character questions and answers ("The Ken Washington Exercise")
Here's a pic of them answering

the we came together and each actor got to doa small painting of their experience so far after 11 days working with the play. the results are below. they chatted, listened to cheery music (for once!) and drew. good times.

we closed rehearsal with a stumble thru.

we've come a long way.
we've got a way to go.
we'll get there.

Buy tickets and come see us

please.

painting #1

2007-08-27T19:35:00.001-04:00

michael's

painting #2

2007-08-27T19:34:00.001-04:00

melissa's

painting #3

2007-08-27T19:33:00.001-04:00

andy's

painting #4

2007-08-27T19:32:00.001-04:00

carol's

reh10

2007-08-27T19:29:00.001-04:00

marvin tom

TELL US YR CELL PHONE TALES

2007-08-26T10:37:00.000-04:00

i lost my cell phone on friday. it slipped out of my pocket in a cab. i called it for hours but i gave up. i really hated that cell phone. it never worked right. the battery would die after what seemed like 15 min of use. i bought a new one but as a result, i lost all my numbers. i sent out an email to ask for everyone's # again. they thought it was a publicity ploy. AS IF I WAS THAT CLEVER! you see the new play ESKIMOS is all about a man who loses his cell phone...

if anyone besides me and DMC read this blog, post a comment and tell us about your cell phone experiences:

HAVE YOU EVER LOST A CELL?
HOW? WHERE?
DID IT EVER COME BACK TO YOU?
HOW?

summer jams 07

2007-08-26T10:25:00.000-04:00

1.) "atlas" by battles
the voice sounds like a robotic chipmunk but in an awesome way. it is actually very effective. and those drums. shoegazers reduced the voice to texture or another instrument but here the voice becomes the focus by exceeding its role as voice. plus it just rocks. post-rock (aka math rock) never sounded so fun.

2.) "reverend green" by the animal collective
that tremelo guitar part that acts as the foundation sounds so mournful and when he (panda bear? avey?) screams reverend green over and over again until it becomes something like "reverend mean" or "revere me" and then he just screams... i really love that part. it feel very cathartic.

3.) "murder city" by bark psychosis
this unreleased track from the HEX sessions (that great post rock album of '94) serves as a reminder that the BP cited godflesh as one of their musical inflences. this track makes glenn branca sound like a pussy. sorry that isn't very PC i realize. but i mean that in a non-femanophobic way (that's not really a word). if you listen to this song loud enough when you haven't slept enough or taken some (lots of?) cold medicine, you see visions.

reh9

2007-08-25T01:39:00.001-04:00

NEVLUG-TUK

reh9

2007-08-25T01:37:00.000-04:00

SPLAT-TUK

reh9

2007-08-25T01:34:00.000-04:00

NIL-TUK

reh9

2007-08-25T01:32:00.000-04:00

NU-TUK

Check this out

2007-08-24T00:43:00.001-04:00

From our friend George Hunka over at Superfluities

Discount Ticket Code included!

REH8

2007-08-24T00:39:00.000-04:00

Tom loves that. It looks like Marvin does too.

Dylan watches.

REH7

2007-08-24T00:38:00.001-04:00

lost in a sea of spam. andy in foreground.

REH6

2007-08-24T00:36:00.001-04:00

Marvin in plain view. talking to mysterious woman

REH6

2007-08-24T00:35:00.001-04:00

worked marvin/woman phone calls. on cell phones in separate rooms.

here is the mysterious woman

REH6

2007-08-24T00:29:00.000-04:00

Memories. Real Pasts. Fictional Pasts. Let them belnd together. Actors chose a selection of photgraphs to represent their characters pasts. here are some of the pictures not chosen. Boltanski inspired me greatly on this one.

Not an uncommon occurrence

2007-08-23T13:18:00.000-04:00

REH5

2007-08-21T09:45:00.000-04:00

Table Work.

Knock Knock
Who's There
Impatient Cow
Impatient Cow-
MOOOOOOOOOOOO!

The therapist is a cyborg. The therapist is an coney island novelty in the corner of a starbucks. it can cleanse you. bring you back to zero. when the noise becomes too much.

* * *

model

2007-08-19T18:19:00.001-04:00

you'll have to come see the show to find out what is behind the curtains.

let's make a deal:

TICKETS ON SALE NOW

Postcard Image

2007-08-19T17:23:00.000-04:00

REH4

2007-08-19T17:19:00.000-04:00

actors were read two quotes:

THE PAST - Fictional existents known only through the persistence of memory

THE FUTURE - (if it exists) Live only as possibility.

Actors wrote down memories of their character's lives. Actors wrote down what possibilities they were desirous of in the future.

they then choose to images to reflect the past and future and chose two memories or desires to share with the group.

below are the images.

melissa's images

2007-08-19T17:18:00.000-04:00

andy's images

2007-08-19T17:17:00.000-04:00

carol's images

2007-08-19T17:16:00.000-04:00

Michael's images

2007-08-19T17:15:00.000-04:00

Solnit Quote

2007-08-19T17:12:00.001-04:00

in summation:

the landscape in which identity is grounded is not solid stuff; it's made out of memory and desire.

REH3

2007-08-18T22:08:00.001-04:00

actors built boxes.

less objects though.

hysterical and useless
starting and then stopping
it always turns out dreadful
one of these days i'm going to grow wings
don't get sentimental it always turns out dreadful
you know who you are with
the emptiest of feelings

sometimes boxes open sometimess closed.

this is what open boxes look like (acid colors huh?)

open boxes (michael and andy)

2007-08-18T22:06:00.000-04:00

closed boxes (melissa and michael)

2007-08-18T22:04:00.000-04:00

REH2

2007-08-18T22:01:00.000-04:00

ken brought new pages in so we re-read the play with new pages. ken left.

we used let down and lyrics from the original and a cover version. actors then created two monlogues with selected lyrics that provoked them and lines their characters say in the play.

this is them working on their monologues.

i don't know what's going on with these colors

Boltanski

2007-08-18T21:58:00.000-04:00

This is a great book about the artist Christian Boltanski and time and forgetting and remembering and the nature of memory and the nature of art amongst other thigns. we used a poem in it by Tadeusz Kantor called THE ROOM. The actors then constructed a room that represented the play. Pictures follow

Building the ESKIMO ROOM

2007-08-18T21:57:00.000-04:00

ESKIMO ROOM

2007-08-18T21:55:00.000-04:00

1st Rehearsal

2007-08-18T21:52:00.000-04:00

First Rehearsal Thursday.
Read-Thru of play.
Added Cristin Milioti as SISTER (also her birthday). we sang.
design presentation.
listened to winged/wicked things.
went home.

the sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

2007-08-11T19:00:00.000-04:00

what i've been reading

the sound of ten years on...

2007-08-11T18:57:00.000-04:00

What I've been listening to

Our Designers!

2007-08-11T18:55:00.000-04:00

Set - Lee Savage
Costumes - Emily Rebholz
Lights - Thom Weaver
Sound - Elizabeth Rhodes

Our Cast!

2007-08-11T18:54:00.001-04:00

Marvin - Michael Tisdale
Christine/Detective/Luk-Luk - Melissa Miller
Tom/Cop/Tuk-Tuk - Andrew Breving
Woman/Puk-Puk - Carol Monda

a quote

2007-07-20T13:47:00.000-04:00

transcend the issues of color and surface and consider only the representation of the infinite.

a quote

2007-07-20T13:20:00.000-04:00

don't get sentimental
it always turns out dreadful

Eskimos Inspiration #3

2007-07-20T13:01:00.000-04:00

Stephen Hendee

Eskimos Inspiration #2

2007-07-20T12:45:00.001-04:00

Kazimir Malevich - Black Square

Eskimos Inspiration #1

2007-07-20T12:43:00.000-04:00

Nicolas De Stael - Les Toits

The Committee Theatre Internship Program

2007-06-17T23:54:00.000-04:00

The Committee is currently looking for interns for its upcoming production. For more information about the Internship program including an application, please click here.

ken urban shorts (for the summer)

2007-06-14T21:21:00.000-04:00

Monday June 25th

Target Margin presents Maze, an evening of five short pieces featuring
Tecemessa by Ken Urban, directed by Jose Zayas

Disgraced, the great warrior Ajax kills himself, leaving behind a concubine and son. Their fate was a mystery, until now. A short play with footnotes.

The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street (between 10th and 11th Ave), NYC

7:30pm, Tix: $5

More info, click here.

Monday July 9th and Tuesday July 10th

Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater presents

Left at the Harbor, an evening of political short plays featuring

Country Driving by Ken Urban

theWHATbar at Harbor Stage, 1 Kendrick Avenue, Wellfleet, MA

8:00pm, Tix: $23

More info, click here.