Magic Futurebox is excited to announce our residencies for the 2012 season! Click the titles for more information on each show.
BELOW And BEYOND
May 9th @ 8:00 pm
Tickets: $12
A new play about natural gas extraction, urban camouflage, immortal jellyfish, and an underground creek-turned-sewer. Inspired by the long-submerged Mill Creek of West Philadelphia, as well as current debate about fracking in Pennsylvania, this original play explores the complications of what lies beneath our feet. Using puppets, pulleys, movement, maps, and the imagination, the performance examines the intricacies of extraction and recognizes a waterway that continues to resurface. Tree house, houseboat and bunker dwellers unite amidst an invasion of urban water buffalo.
Letter to My Father by Franz Kafka
May 10th - 13th, 18th - 20th, 25th - 27th @ 7:00 pm
May 12th & 26th @ 2:00 pm
Tickets: $15.00 available here
In 1919, an ailing Franz Kafka writes a letter to his father. In it he puts his anger, his fear, his guilt, his loneliness, his ingratitude, his debt, his despair, his joy, his pride, his confusion, his laughter, his hate, his memories, his shame, his tears, his disgust at everything his father represents and his profound hope that he might one day measure up to such a remarkable man. The letter was never delivered -- that is, until now.
4:48 Psychosis
May 10th - 13th, 18th - 20th, 25th - 27th @ 8:30 pm
May 12th & 26th @ 3:30 pm
Tickets: $15.00 available here
A career of horrible-gentle and violent-funny work comes to a close with Sarah Kane's magnum opus, written on the eve of her tragic suicide. In it she tells the inner drama of a mind at the point of combustion. In her hospital room she becomes patient, disease and doctor. She is the Victim of unending cruelties, and her pain knows no limit. She is the Perpetrator of every violence and delivers each blow with a smile. She is the Bystander to her own suffering, deaf to her own shrill screams. At the edge of her death, Sarah Kane teaches us what it means to be alive.
Demonology
June 8th - 24th, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday @ 8:00 pm
Tickets: $15.00
AntiMatter Collective transform Magic Futurebox into a demonic playground and harness the theatrical arts in service of the Dark Powers. A roving hour-long experience comprised of two short plays, Demonology is theater from Hell.
The Dreams in the Witch House adapted from a 1932 H.P. Lovecraft novella, is the story of a fragile-minded grad student of quantum physics and folklore, consumed by his increasingly vivid nightmares, told through a unique blend of live action and shadow-puppetry.
sixsixsix is a contemporary remapping of Faust, combining Marlowe’s text, Czech marionette theater, and Jan Svankmejer’s 1994 film. Part revenge tragedy, part diabolically comic black ritual, sixsixsix is a taut, menacing, metaphysical thriller.
The Orpheus Variations
October 19th - 21st and October 26th - 28th
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday @ 8:00 pm
Tickets: $30.00
The Orpheus Variations is a live film reimagining of the classic myth as the tale of a transcendent sound-maker struck mute by the suicide of his lover. In a desperate attempt to reconstruct the decaying past, the sound-maker obsessively fills thousands of glass jars with single objects – keepsakes – each endowed with a singular memory of his beloved. Tickets include attendance at the after-performance party each evening.
Friday, August 24, 2012 at 10:56AM 