This Winter Horse Trade and EXIT Theatre return to bring you a festival that is uncensored, unjuried and totally downtown.
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This Winter Horse Trade and EXIT Theatre return to bring you a festival that is uncensored, unjuried and totally downtown.
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Martin and Jean-Michele create theatrical storytelling productions: one-person shows that are directed, yet unscripted, that are at once autobiographical and universal. In 2008, they created “Wanderlust,” an extemporaneous tale about a temp’s search for permanence in West Africa. It enjoyed a sold-out run at the Barrow Group Studio theatre, a production which NYTheatre.com called “Absolutely unforgettable… [Dockery] brings his experiences entirely to life, supplying a thrill that feels more actual than vicarious.”
“Wanderlust” “The combination of great technique and a riveting and valuable tale to tell is rare. Doing both as well as Dockery does them is rarer still.” – NYTheatre.com “A natural gift for storytelling… both wildly comic and heart-wrenchingly honest.” –The Record Review “One of New York’s finest storytellers.” –The Examiner |
“The Liar Show” at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival “A winner.” (4 stars out of 5) |
“Oh, That Wily Snake!”: “[The play] flashes with humor and insight… fantastic.” –The New York Times |
“a lonely monkeyhouse”: “Dockery makes the search for community both compelling and entertaining… Divinely inspired.” –L.A. Weekly “Deliciously enjoyable… It’s like getting on a speeding train – and you can’t get off, not that you’d want to… One of the funniest plays in town.” –Back Stage West |
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MARTIN DOCKERY (creator/performer) is a frequent performer in New York’s storytelling scene, appearing on the stages of The Moth, Speakeasy, The Liar Show, Talkingstick, and many others. Over the past year, he’s performed his one-person show Wanderlust in San Francisco, Westchester County, and in New York City at both Ars Nova and The Barrow Group Studio Theatre, where he enjoyed a short but sold-out run. This past summer he performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with The Liar Show, which The Scotsman gave 4 stars. His stories have made him a seven-time finalist in The Moth’s bi-annual Grandslam Storytelling Championship. He was a co-creator of the play C-R-E-P-U-S-C-U-L-E, which ran on Broadway as The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. His play Oh, That Wily Snake! is being read by university students as part of a McGraw-Hill anthology textbook on literature. The New York Times has called his writing “fantastic,” Backstage West wrote that it was “deliciously enjoyable,” and L.A. Weekly has deemed it “compelling . . . entertaining . . . divinely inspired.” |
JEAN-MICHELE GREGORY (director) works as a director, editor, and dramaturg, focusing on unscripted, extemporaneous theatrical works that live in the moment they are told. For the last decade she’s been engaged in a collaboration with Mike Daisey, directing their many monologues at venues across the globe, including If You See Something Say Something (the Public Theater, Woolly Mammoth), How Theater Failed America (Barrow Street Theatre, Under the Radar Festival), Great Men of Genius (Joe’s Pub, Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Monopoly! (American Repertory Theatre, PuSh Festival), All Stories Are Fiction (P.S. 122), 21 Dog Years (Cherry Lane Theatre, Edinburgh’s Assembly Rooms), and many, many more. She recently directed Suzanne Morrison’s Yoga Bitch (London’s Theatre 503, Maui Cultural Arts Center, Seattle’s Re-Bar). Last spring she directed Martin Dockery’s Wanderlust at the Barrow Group Theatre and she looks forward to many more collaborations with this wildly talented and prolific performer. |
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