Else & Henry at Espacio Inestable, Valencia, Spain - September 2017

A Play Directed by Puy Navarro
Assistant direction: Nick Rogers
Cast: Victoria Salvador, Pep Ricart, Ester Martínez, Paco Trenzano, Bautista Duarte, Leo de Bari
Music:Sergio martínez (Percusión), Alexei León (Vientos)
Costumes: Alex Vinash
Light Design: Pelegrí Duart
Visuals and Projection Design: Laia Cabrera e Isabelle Duverger
Stage Design: Ferrán Navarro
Music Composition: Alexei León y Sergio Martinez


A play about the love between two people that goes beyond the boundaries of life.
"ELSE and HENRY" received the "Nuestras Voces" award by the MetLife Foundation, a US national writers competition. And now I have the great opportunity to DIRECT it in Valencia, Spain.

September 7-11, 2017
Espacio Inestable - Calle de Aparisi y Guijarro, 7 – Valencia

REEL 2016 LAIA CABRERA & CO VIDEO MAPPING / INSTALLATIONS

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LAIA CABRERA & CO. is an award winning team of film, animators and visual artists based in New York, co-founded by Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger, producing a wide range of multimedia projects, from traditional and experimental film-making, to the use of film and video streams in live performance, multimedia theater, video-mapped projection design and site-specific installation.

Contact us at: http://laiacabrera.com/company/

Shows and Installations in Order of Appearance:
- Aire, Visual Concert for Nomads - Tempietto Di Bramante, Rome, Italy, 2014 (in collaboration with composer, double bass player and musical director Javier Moreno Sanchez)
- Night - Visuals, Animations and Projection Design for Multimedia Play by NSTC, Theater for the New City, New York, 2015 (NYIT award winner for Outstanding Performance Art Production, and NYIT nominee for Outstanding Innovative Design - Projection Design)
- Aire, Visual Concert for Nomads - Featured Installation, Art All Night DC, H Street, Washington DC, 2015 (in collaboration with composer, double bass player and musical director Javier Moreno Sanchez)
- Untitled mind - Indoor/Outdoor Video Installation Nuit Blanche DC, Shaw, Washington DC, 2013 (In collaboration with Dancers Catherine Correa and Jonathan Royse Wyndham, music by Javier Moreno Sanchez)
- Aire, Visual Concert for Nomads - Poughkeepsie Underwear Factory, Hudson Valley, NY, 2015 (in collaboration with composer, double bass player and musical director Javier Moreno Sanchez)
- Ronensbourgh - Visuals, Animations and Projection Design for Multimedia Play by AENY - Ignacio Garcia Bustelo, IATI Theater, New York, 2015
- Shifting gaze - Multi-Stream Video Installation, commissioned by Georgetown Glow Festival, Washington DC, 2015 (Music by Erica Glyn)
- Cosmicomics - Visuals, Animations and Projection Design for Multimedia Play by NSTC, Dixon Place, New York, 2014 (NYIT nominee for Outstanding Innovative Design - Projection Design)
- La Noche From Spain - Video Installation with Mapping, commissioned by Instituto Cervantes New York, the Spanish Tourism Board and Spain Fresh, ICNY, New York, 2016
- City in Motion - Animations, Visuals & Video Installation, commissioned by Reebok Creative Lab and Spain Fresh, White Box Gallery, Soho, New York, 2014
- Maasai Lab - Immersive Video Installation with Mapping, Pikolinos Pop-Up Store, Meatpacking District, New York, 2013 (Collaboration with Merry+Valenzuela)
- Pikolinos Pop-Up Store - Projection Design, Mapping, Visuals and Animations, Meatpacking District, New York, 2013-2014 (Collaboration with Merry+Valenzuela)
- Dollars for Thieves - Indoor-Outdoor Video Installation with Mapping, Matt Torrey's, Brooklyn, 2015 (Music by Erica Glyn)
- Garden of Delights - Visuals, Animations and Projection Design for Multimedia Play by NSTC, Theater for the New City, New York, 2012 (NYIT nominee for Outstanding Innovative Design - Projection Design)
- Shifting Gaze - 360º Immersive Video Installation Performance, commissioned by Region Zero Festival and KJCC at NYU, Washington Square, New York, 2011 and Spain Art Fest, Times Square Alliance, Times Square, New York, 2010 (Music by Erica Glyn)
- Claim Your Place - Video Installation Performance, La Nacional, New York, and Tournefeuille Nuits Euphoriques Festival, France, 2010
- Landscapes of the Soul - Video Installation Concert with Mapping, La Mama Theater, New York, 2011 (In collaboration with Nacho Arimany)
- Resonant Streams - Video Installation Performance, The Value of Water Festival, St. John the Divine Cathedral, New York, 2011 (In collaboration with Nana Simopoulos and Caryn Heilman)
- The Arimany Trio - Visual Concert, Next Wave Festival, BAM Cafe, Brooklyn Academy of Music, 2010
- Singularity - Multi-stream Video Installation Performance, Festival Animac, Lleida, Spain, 2006
-Until There / Walk Passa Bouge - 360º video installation performance, Monkey Town, Brooklyn, 2009 (in collaboration with For Feather and Cie. Lorrojo)
- Playing Equality / Death and the Maiden - Visuals, Animations and Projection Design for Multimedia Play by Puy Navarro, Boricua College of New York, 2009, Festival Internacional 'ReACT' Valencia, Spain, 2010
- Woman Slightly on the Edge - Visuals and Projection Design for Multimedia Play by Puy Navarro, American Globe Theater, New York, 2005

Visuals and Projection Design for SINCRONIZADA - TALENT MADRID FINALIST

We are finalist of Talent Madrid 2016 in the category "Theater" with Sincronizada and have been invited to present it at the Teatro Del Canal in Madrid.

June 4 and 8, 2016 - Teatro Del Canal - Calle de Cea Bermúdez, 1, Madrid, Spain

DIANA, ex-captain of the Synchronized Swimming team and Olympic medalist, retires in Kyrgyzstan to forget the swimming pool and the tragedy that that befell her team after the last Olympics.

Dirección: Laura Madera y Mar Gómez Glez / Dramaturgia: Mar Gómez Glez 
Diseño de Video Arte, Proyecciones y Animación: Laia Cabrera e Isabelle Duverger 
Diseño de Espacio Sonoro y Composición: Alberto Bernal 
Coreografía: Teresa Jimenez Silva / Escenografía: François-Pierre Couture 
Diseño de Luces: François-Pierre Couture / Performers: María Granada y Mery Cabezuela 




Recording of the play:

We Won! New York Innovative Award 2015 for Outstanding Performance Art Production!

"Night", our latest theater production with the New Stage Theatre Company received 1 award for Outstanding Performance Art Production

and Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger received one nomination: Outstanding Innovative Design for Projection Design
Other nominations for this play were:
Outstanding Director (Ildiko Nemeth), Outstanding Choreography/Movement (Ildiko Nemeth), Outstanding Lighting Design (Federico Restrepo), Outstanding Actor in a Lead Role (Chris Tanner)






Pictures by Jillian Hmieleski and Isabelle Duverger

3rd time NYIT Award Nominee in 2015 for "Night" Outstanding Innovative Design!

Laia Cabrera, Isabelle Duverger nominated for Outstanding Innovative Design (Projection Design) for the 3rd consecutive time for The New Stage Theatre Company's production of Night at the New York Innovative Theater Awards 2015. 



Night by Charles L. Mee receives 6 IT Award nominations! Outstanding Performance Art Production, Outstanding Director (Ildiko Nemeth), Outstanding Choreography/Movement (Ildiko Nemeth), Outstanding Lighting Design (Federico Restrepo), Outstanding Innovative Design (Laia Cabrera, Isabelle Duverger, Ildiko Nemeth), Outstanding Actor in a Lead Role (Chris Tanner)



Night at the Theater for the New City - From April 24 to May 10, 2015

Multimedia Theater Play NIGHT with projection design, video art and animations by Spanish filmmaker and videoartist Laia Cabrera in collaboration with French projection designer and animator Isabelle Duverger. 

Inspired by Seneca's Thyestes, "Night (Thyestes 2.0)" combines sections of the classic tale with an equally dark modern vision. A whirlwind of vivid scenes bridges the torture, murder and cannibalism dogging ill-fated Tantalus to modern plagues both frightening and banal, from war crimes to YouTube vapidity. This world premiere performance brings a bold mix of standout projection design and visuals, choreography, costuming, lighting and sound to Mee’s rhapsodic vision, resulting in a night of wonderfully disorienting theatre.

Directed by Ildiko Nemeth in collaboration with:
Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger - Video and Projection Design
Federico Restrepo - Lighting
Egle Paulauskaite - Costume
Galway McCullough - Fight Choreography
Jon Gilbert Leavitt - Sound Engineering

With Beth Dodye Bass*, Dana Boll, Adam Boncz, Kaylin Lee Clinton, Sofia O.C. , Catherine Correa, Geraldine Dulex, Markus Hirnigel*, Brian Linden*, Galway McCullough*, Brandon Olson*, Jeanne Lauren Smith, and Chris Tanner.
*These Actors are appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association

May-June 2015: Video and Projection Design for the Play Ronensbourgh

A place—a proposed utopian solution to all society’s problems.
The Heiber family lives in a world that’s rapidly crumbling, plagued by flawed and outdated social and political models. Meanwhile a group of aristocrats, led by Helmut Ronen, is creating the perfect city as the answer to all society’s problems: RONENSBOURGH.
Ronensbourgh is a very contemporary and highly experimental piece, written in a Heiner Müller’s style (no stage directions. No formatting. SOME CAPITAL LETTERS THAT SEEM RANDOM BUT THEY’RE NOT). The play possesses relevant questions about identity, society and home; about the conception of those ideas, and the dislodging of the very things our society holds as important.


Picture: ©Ignacio García-Bustelo

In Co-Production with AENY | Spanish Artists in New York
Written by Beatriz Cabur - Directed by Ignacio García-Bustelo
May 21 to June 7, 2015 at the IATI Theater - 64 East 4th Street, NYC 10003


Picture: ©Ignacio García-Bustelo

Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger | Video and Projection Designers
Jennifer Sipila | Set Designer - Porsche McGovern | Lighting Designer
Alfredo Tauste | Sound Designer - Yuko Nakao | Custome Designer


Picture: ©Ignacio García-Bustelo

Cast: Claudio Bandini - Mateo Franco - Sara Gozalo - Begonya Plaza - Francisco Reyes

Picture: ©Ignacio García-Bustelo

Soraya Padrao | Line Producer - Cristina Ayon-Viesca | Assistant Director/Stage Manager
Cristina Perez Ballesteros | Production Manager - Sandra Gumuzzio & Maria Gonzalez | Production Assistant
Pope Jackson | Technical Director - Allison Kadin & WowMom | Marketing

Picture: ©Ignacio García-Bustelo

Press Contacts: Yani Perez | (212) 505-6757 | yani@iatitheater.org - Maria G. | press.aeny@gmail.com

Picture: ©Ignacio García-Bustelo

$25 General - $20 Student - $20 Senior Citizen - Get Tickets: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/945590

Picture: ©Ignacio García-Bustelo

Dates:
Thursday, May 21, 2015 at 8:00pm
Friday, May 22, 2015 at 8:00pm
Saturday, May 23, 2015 at 8:00pm
Sunday, May 24, 2015 at 3:00pm
Wednesday, May 27, 2015 at 8:00pm
Thursday, May 28, 2015 at 8:00pm
Friday, May 29, 2015 at 8:00pm
Saturday, May 30, 2015 at 8:00pm
Sunday, May 31, 2015 at 3:00pm
Wednesday, June 3, 2015 at 8:00pm
Thursday, June 4, 2015 at 8:00pm
Friday, June 5, 2015 at 8:00pm
Saturday, June 6, 2015 at 8:00pm
Sunday, June 7, 2015 at 3:00pm


Picture during rehearsal: ©Isabelle Duverger

April-May 2015: Night (Thyestes 2.0) Theater Play

Theater for the New City
From April 24 to May 10, 2015

The New Stage Theatre Company is presenting the world premiere of "Night (Thyestes 2.0)", a movement theatre piece written by Charles L. Mee with projection design and Visuals by Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger. Inspired by Seneca's Thyestes, the piece combines sections of the classic tale with an equally dark modern vision. A whirlwind of vivid scenes bridges the torture, murder and cannibalism dogging ill-fated Tantalus to modern plagues both frightening and banal, from war crimes to YouTube vapidity. This world premiere performance brings a bold mix of standout projection design and visuals, choreography, costuming, lighting and sound to Mee’s rhapsodic vision, resulting in a night of wonderfully disorienting theatre.

Directed by Ildiko Nemeth in collaboration with:
Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger - Visuals and Projection Design
Federico Restrepo - Lighting
Egle Paulauskaite - Costume
Galway McCullough - Fight Choreography
Jon Gilbert Leavitt - Sound Engineering

With Beth Dodye Bass*, Dana Boll, Adam Boncz, Kaylin Lee Clinton, Sofia O.C. , Catherine Correa, Geraldine Dulex, Markus Hirnigel*, Brian Linden*, Galway McCullough*, Brandon Olson*, Jeanne Lauren Smith, and Chris Tanner.
*These Actors are appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association

This program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Theater for the New City
155 1st Ave, New York, NY 10003
From April 24 to May 10, 2015
- Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8pm
- Sundays at 3pm

General Admission: $18 Buy Tickets HERE

The New Stage Theater Company

Theater for the New City

Second time NYIT Award Nominee! In 2014 for Cosmicomics Outstanding Innovative Design!

NYIT Award Nominee 2014 for Garden of Delights Outstanding Innovative Design

Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger are New York Innovative Theater Award Nominees for Outstanding Innovative Design (Projection Design, Video-Art and Animations) for The New Stage Theatre Company's production of Cosmicomics at the New York Innovative Theater Awards 2014.

Cosmicomics at Dixon Place - from March 28 to April 19, 2014

Watch video: Cosmicomics theater play - Visuals and Video Installation


Multimedia Theater Play COSMICOMICS with projection design, video art and animations by Spanish filmmaker and videoartist Laia Cabrera in collaboration with French artist Isabelle Duverger. 
Dixon Place and The New Stage Theatre Company present world premiere of Cosmicomics, an original multimedia theatre piece inspired by chapters of Italo Calvino's matchless novel of the same name.
Directed by Ildiko Nemeth, Cosmicomics comprises a series of vignettes involving our narrator, Qfwfq, as he evolves across the history of the universe. From his innocent childhood before the Big Bang, when everything he loved was packed into a single point, we continue on to his love affairs and nostalgic middle age. Along the way we witness wondrous things: the birth of light and color, the identity crises of creatures that move from sea to land, the inner lives of mollusks, and more. Against a cosmic backdrop we recognize fundamentally human experiences in the tales: obsession, neurosis, love and transformation.

Produced by The New Stage Theatre Company
Created and Directed by Ildiko Nemeth
in collaboration with Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger (Laia Cabrera & Co) - Projection Design, Videoart and Animation
Federico Restrepo - Lighting Design
Jon Gilbert Leavitt - Original Music
Yukio Tsuji - Sound Design
Egle Paulauskaite - Costume Design
Cast: Lance Cruce, Kaylin Lee Clinton, Chris Tanner, Geraldine Dulex, Denice Kondik, Florencia Minniti, Jeanne Lauren Smith,
Markus Hirnigel, Michael Cuomo, Beth Dodye Bass, Beau Mallard, Catherine Correa and Valerie Ryan Miller.
Principal Administrator: Fabiyan Pemble-Belkin
Set Construction: Kertek Construction Corp.

This program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Production design support provided by The Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Foundation. This work was created in part through Field Time, a rehearsal space program of The Field supported by the Lambent Foundation.on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Video produced by Laia Cabrera & Co. http://laiacabrera.com/company/

Cosmicomics Reviews: Summary on our Projection Design, Videoart & Animation

Photo of the Week, TimeOut New York nº949, April 10-16, 2014 (Photo by Lee Wexler/ImagesforInnovation.org)

"The sight of the modern stage techniques using projected images, videos, colors, lights and shadows helps the viewers to understand the texts from the mouth of the actors."
"The very powerful scenes were those in which the actors were acting out the story live on stage while in the background projections appeared at the same time."
"An interesting, very spectacular show"
- Barát Tamás WBPI / New York, Breuerpress International, April 8, 2014

"There are many gorgeous projections that fill up this space. [...] Federico Restrepo’s lighting is an enormous part of the show, as are the lunar landscapes and other projections designed by Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger." - Ed Malin, nytheater now, March 30, 2014

"I’ve seen a few of New Stage Theatre’s previous shows and have always been struck by the absolutely stunning visual elements" Katy Einerson, Culture Bot, March 31, 2014

"I let my mind float away on a drunken cloud and into the absurd non sequitur universe of Italo Calvino. I found myself delighted. [...] The music is playful and lovely like the shifting backdrops of the universe in freefall, a solitary studio, or a beach party." Aurin Squire, New York Theatre Review, April 8, 2014

"Just saw COSMICOMICS, where Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger have totally outdone themselves. Amazing! You.got.to.see.it!!!" - Laura Turegano, Associate Director, King Juan Carlos Center At NYU, April 4, 2014

"Visually extravagant beyond belief with a great cast, great costumes, and great fun! [...] GO see it!!" Jackie Rudin, Community Organizer, NYC, April 6, 2014

Multimedia Theater Play COSMICOMICS based on novel by Italo Calvino - Until April 9th, 2014

Dixon Place Theater
161A Chrystie Street, New York, NY-10002
March 28, 29; April 4, 5, 11, 12, 18, 19
Friday & Saturday at 7pm

Multimedia Theater Play COSMICOMICS with projection design, video art and animations by Spanish filmmaker and videoartist Laia Cabrera in collaboration with French artist Isabelle Duverger. 
Dixon Place and The New Stage Theatre Company present world premiere of Cosmicomics, an original multimedia theatre piece inspired by chapters of Italo Calvino's matchless novel of the same name.
Directed by Ildiko Nemeth, Cosmicomics comprises a series of vignettes involving our narrator, Qfwfq, as he evolves across the history of the universe. From his innocent childhood before the Big Bang, when everything he loved was packed into a single point, we continue on to his love affairs and nostalgic middle age. Along the way we witness wondrous things: the birth of light and color, the identity crises of creatures that move from sea to land, the inner lives of mollusks, and more. Against a cosmic backdrop we recognize fundamentally human experiences in the tales: obsession, neurosis, love and transformation.

Produced by The New Stage Theatre Company
Created and Directed by Ildiko Nemeth
in collaboration with Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger (Laia Cabrera & Co) - Projection Design, Videoart and Animation
Federico Restrepo - Lighting Design
Jon Gilbert Leavitt - Original Music
Yukio Tsuji - Sound Design
Egle Paulauskaite - Costume Design
Cast: Lance Cruce, Kaylin Lee Clinton, Chris Tanner, Geraldine Dulex, Denice Kondik, Florencia Minniti, Jeanne Lauren Smith, Markus Hirnigel, Michael Cuomo, Beth Dodye Bass, Beau Mallard, Catherine Correa and Valerie Ryan Miller.
Principal Administrator: Fabiyan Pemble-Belkin
Set Construction: Kertek Construction Corp.

This program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Production design support provided by The Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Foundation. This work was created in part through Field Time, a rehearsal space program of The Field supported by the Lambent Foundation.

Get Tickets: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/171/1393720200000
In Advance: $16.00 At the Door: $20.00 Students and Seniors: $12.00
More infos: Facebook Event and Broadwayworld.com










Pictures by Lee Wexler/ImagesForInnovation.org

Coming Soon: Multimedia Theater Play COSMICOMICS based on novel by Italo Calvino

Dixon Place Theater
161A Chrystie Street, New York, NY-10002
March 28, 29; April 4, 5, 11, 12, 18, 19
Friday & Saturday at 7pm

Multimedia Theater Play COSMICOMICS with projection design, video art and animations by Spanish filmmaker and videoartist Laia Cabrera in collaboration with French artist Isabelle Duverger. 
Dixon Place and The New Stage Theatre Company present world premiere of Cosmicomics, an original multimedia theatre piece inspired by chapters of Italo Calvino's matchless novel of the same name.
Directed by Ildiko Nemeth, Cosmicomics comprises a series of vignettes involving our narrator, Qfwfq, as he evolves across the history of the universe. From his innocent childhood before the Big Bang, when everything he loved was packed into a single point, we continue on to his love affairs and nostalgic middle age. Along the way we witness wondrous things: the birth of light and color, the identity crises of creatures that move from sea to land, the inner lives of mollusks, and more. Against a cosmic backdrop we recognize fundamentally human experiences in the tales: obsession, neurosis, love and transformation.

Produced by The New Stage Theatre Company
Created and Directed by Ildiko Nemeth
in collaboration with Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger (Laia Cabrera & Co) - Projection Design, Videoart and Animation
Federico Restrepo - Lighting Design
Jon Gilbert Leavitt - Original Music
Yukio Tsuji - Sound Design
Egle Paulauskaite - Costume Design
Cast: Lance Cruce, Kaylin Lee Clinton, Chris Tanner, Geraldine Dulex, Denice Kondik, Florencia Minniti, Jeanne Lauren Smith, Markus Hirnigel, Michael Cuomo, Beth Dodye Bass, Beau Mallard, Catherine Correa and Valerie Ryan Miller.
Principal Administrator: Fabiyan Pemble-Belkin
Set Construction: Kertek Construction Corp.

 This program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
 Production design support provided by The Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Foundation. This work was created in part through Field Time, a rehearsal space program of The Field supported by the Lambent Foundation.

Get Tickets: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/171/1393720200000
In Advance: $16.00 At the Door: $20.00 Students and Seniors: $12.00
More infos: Facebook Event and Broadwayworld.com

New York Innovative Theatre Awards Nominee 2013!

On Monday, July 22, 2013, The New York Innovative Theatre Foundation, announced the 2013 nominees at its annual event held this year at XL Night Club, NYC.
The announcement was made by the co-executive directors, Shay Gines and Nick Micozzi, plus members of the community including: Matt Freeman, Donnetta Lavinia Grays, Frank Kuzler, Molly Marinik, Jenna Rafferty and David Stern.
I have been nominated, along with Laia Cabrera and Ildiko Nemeth, for Outstanding Innovative Design (Projection Design, Video-Art and Animations) for The New Stage Theatre Company's production of Garden of Delights.
The Awards Ceremony will be held on Monday, September 30th!

March 2013: Design of poster for Jollification | Mortification at La MaMa, New York

banner designed for Facebook and La MaMa Theater official website

Official Poster for the play Jollification | Mortification

A theatrical collage on missed connections, hysteria and mortality.
Jollification | Mortification invites characters from previous New Stage productions to join in a playful night that continues the provocative, expansive conversation on modernity, mortality, morality and the self that New Stage has established with its audience over the past ten years. Taking a tragicomic perspective on what it means to be true to the self, and what the consequences of such honesty can be, the show examines the feelings of shame, doubt, and exhilaration that come with running afoul of norms and expectations.

Illustration and Poster designed by Isabelle Duverger (original idea by Ildiko Nemeth and Fabiyan Pemble-Belkin)

Directed by Ildiko Nemeth
Stage Design by Ildiko Nemeth
Lighting Design by Federico Restrepo
Costume Design by Brandon Olson
Sound Engineering by Gideon Grossman
Music Selection by Ildiko Nemeth
Set Construction by Jeff Hermanski and Fabiyan Pemble-Belkin

Cast: Brandon Olson*, Chris Tanner, Markus Hirnigel*, Kaylin Lee Clinton, Sarah Lemp, Dana Boll, Catherine Correa, Jeanne Lauren Smith, Denice Kondik, Valerie Miller, Lisa Kathryn Hokans, Galway McCullough, Adam Boncz
(*These Actors are appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association)

Principal Administrator: Fabiyan Pemble-Belkin

Jollification | Mortification is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. 

February 24, 2013: Prologue by Maria Litvan

February 24 at 6pm
CPR - Center for Performance Research
361 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn
Tickets: $10 in advance or at the door

Conceived and directed by Maria Litvan

Performed by Catherine Correa and Francisco Reyes
Music Design by Nana Simopoulos
Drawing by Isabelle Duverger
Video projections by Laia Cabrera & Co.

Prologue is a tribute to French philosopher, mystic, and social activist Simone Weil (1909- 1943). Simone Weil, described by Albert Camus as “the only great spirit of our times” and by Susan Sontag as “one of the most uncompromising and troubling witnesses to the modern travail of the spirit.” Weil had an extraordinary capacity to dwell within highly philosophical and metaphysical thought, while still emphasizing the importance of embodied experience. She realized that in order to theorize about the working-class, one had to experience their reality firsthand. Thus, despite her poor health conditions, she left her teaching position to work in a factory. Weil’s passionate nature also drove her to participate in many of the political affairs of her time. She confronted Trotsky, fought in the Spanish Civil war, participated in the French Resistance… But, even more unusual for a leftist intellectual of her time, Weil’s interests increasingly focused on religion and mysticism.

Most of Simone Weil’s writings are annotations of thoughts following her own mental associations, thus reading them is like entering directly into Weil’s stream of consciousness. Inspired by her writings, Prologue is a composition of moments – snapshots into Weil’s life and thought. It is an invitation to enter her world from a personal and sensorial experience. Simultaneously, as an actor prepares to interpret Simone Weil, Prologue reflects on the mystical and artistic processes, and the important role of the invisible in the construction of meaning.

Time Out New York: Photo of the week!

"Photo of the week: Garden of Delights
New Stage Theatre Company's Ildiko Nemeth directs a multimedia revival of Spanish playwright Fernando Arrabal's 1968 look inside the psyche of a disturbed actress."
- Time Out New York # 886 (November 29 - December 5, 2012)

Photo by Lee Wexler, Images For Innovation

Nominated for the New York Innovative Theater Awards!

Dear Friends,
The play Garden of Delights written by Fernando Arrabal has been nominated for an NYIT (New York Innovative Theater) Award,
and with Laia Cabrera, I have the great honor of having been nominated for Outstanding Innovative Design with our Projection Design Video-Art and Animations for the Play.

For this award, YOU CAN VOTE, and I would be more than please if you did so!
This is the link to follow the instructions and be able to vote:
http://www.nyitawards.com/vote/ballota.asp

Thank You!
All the Best,
Isabelle

Garden of Delights: first reviews and pictures

GARDEN OF DELIGHTS
at the Theater for the New City - Joyce and Seward Johnson Theater
155 1st Avenue (between 9th and 10th street) New York, NY 10003
From November 15th to December 2nd
Thurs - Sat 8pm | Sun 3pm (No performance Thanksgiving Day) 
Reservation: click here

First and foremost, a message from Fernando Arrabal himself:
"j'ai trouvé  votre  réalisation fantastique , originale , colorée et très ryhmée … un vrai travail inventif, une authentique recherche de la polysémie du texte... et de sa mise en scène… je crois que Jérôme Bosch lui-même aurait apprécié cette approche, sa fantaisie à la fois maîtrisée et apparemment débridée… les vidéos... j'aimerais qu 'un spectacle de cette qualité puisse connaître le succès qu'il mérite… félicitez toute l'équipe encore une fois... je garde un souvenir ému de ma soirée... "
Translation: "I found your realization fantastic, original, colorful and very rhythmical... A truly inventive work, an authentic research of the text polysemy... and of its staging... I believe Jerome Bosch himself would have enjoyed this approach, his fantasy at once controlled and seemingly unbridled... the videos... I would love that a show of this quality that it meets the success it deserves... Congratulate all the team once more... I have fond memories of my evening..."

"DARK AND DELIGHTFUL" Stage and Cinema

"many of the time/space transformations are accomplished with the aid of video images projected onto several flats set up on the stage (projection design, video-art and animations by Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger). It’s an interesting concept, creating multi-layered, colorful worlds." - Stage and Cinema

"It is a stimulating, modern production, full of techno music and video projections, including snippets of Bosch's famous painting The Garden of Earthly Delights." - nytheatre.com

"The projections and videos by Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger make for an incredibly colorful and sensual performance. Scenery changes every few seconds, and video projections show Lais's soliloquies from many different angles." - nytheatre.com

"The designers, Ildiko Nemeth, Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger, provide a simple clean set of flats with marvelous projections playing on them, including Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights, and a huge egg as a prop, and there is a terrific soundscape with music by Jon Gilbert Leavitt. Lighting by Federico Restrepo enhances everything. Nemeth has directed with great timing and synchronization of sound, projections and acting, and she can capture you into the strange Arrabal’s surreal universe: an artistic adventure well done." - Lively-Arts.com

This play has been nominated for the NYIT awards

From November 15th to December 2nd at 8:00 p.m
Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8pm
Sundays at 3pm
Reservation: click here
Box Office: 212.868.4444
Tickets: $18 General Admission

Directed by Ildiko Nemeth
Set Design by Ildiko Nemeth
Projection Design, Video-Art and Animations by Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger
Choreography by Catherine Correa and Ildiko Nemeth in collaboration with the Actors
Lighting Design by Federico Restrepo
Original Score by Jon Gilbert Leavitt
Cast: Kaylin Lee Clinton, Belle Caplis, Brandon Olson*, Chris Tanner, Geraldine Dulex, Denice Kondik, Francisca Magalhães, Valerie Miller, Florencia Minniti, Devin Nelson, Emma Pettersson, Alexandra Pike, Juliana Silva, and Jeanne Lauren Smith
(*These Actors are appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association)
Principal Administrator: Fabiyan Pemble-Belkin
Press Agent: DARR Publicity