Quantum Poetics, a science experiment for the stage.

Premiering in 2010

Quantum Poetics, Stolen Chair's 13th original work, is a world premiere mash-up of laboratory theatre and laboratory science will transform recent advances in theoretical physics and neuroscience into an immersive theatrical world filled with multiple realities, synesthesia, impossible paradoxes, time travel, and cognitive dissonance. A cast of twelve, including actors, clowns, stuntmen, dancers, acrobats, and musicians, and a heart-racing, hallucinogenic sound and video design, will create a gravity and genre-defying world which marvels at the complexity and beauty of how the universe's massive and minuscule forces allow humans to build meaning.

Quantum Poetics will be developed in conjunction with the pilot season of Stolen Chair's Community Supported Theatre (CST). Our CST membership community will have the opportunity to observe and support the project's development from its very first creative retreat to its first public work-in-progress showing, CST members will also have exclusive opportunities to attend science lectures and panels curated by Stolen Chair in support of the project and to participate in a members-only amateur science fair.

SINK

by Lytton Smith
directed by Jeff Clarke
a PL115 Production

SINK tells the story of a man reckoning with modern life soured by the death of the American Dream. Finding himself lost in an increasingly disjointed world, our main character, Winnebago, locks himself in his Manhattan apartment in an attempt to re-group. But how does one begin a journey without a map? Needing a mental sketch-pad on which to organize his thoughts, Winnebago retreats into an imaginary inner landscape — a surreal fantasy of California's Salton Sea: an America that was once almost perfect.

Conjuring characters from the Sea — past and present — Winnebago winds his way through an epic imaginary journey to learn how he may "set his lands in order." In the end, he is cast as the hero and savior of his invented land. But when the inhabitants of the Salton Sea need a martyr to sacrifice himself, will he take that final leap knowing he might never find his way back to reality?

Drawing on a variety of sources from T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Don Quixote, and the history of California's Salton Sea, PL115 will present a theatrical spectacle in which reality and fantasy are indistinguishable, and the destruction of everything we thought we relied upon provides the foundation for a new beginning.

Currently in development for Spring, 2010.

Pirates V. Hobos

An Original Web Series by Salvatore Brienik

First Season Is Available for Viewing at:

http://www.youtube.com/user/PiratesVsHobos