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The Ophelia Project

A Poetic Journey into the Worlds and Writing of Virginia Woolf, Anne Sexton, and Sylvia Plath

Directed and Conceived

by Rachel Bowditch

Philadelphia Fringe Festival 2008

Thursday September 11 at 8pm

Friday September 12 at 8pm

Saturday September 13 at 5pm and 11:30pm

Tickets $10

For tickets, visit: www.pafringe.com

Media Bureau (Studio B), 725 N. 4th Street, Philadelphia, PA

The haunting image of Ophelia, so young and beautiful floating amongst the willows in a glassy stream stirs the imagination. The proximity of beauty, madness, and suicide is fused in the archetypal character of Ophelia, the young beauty, driven from reason to madness and finally to suicide, escaping the maelstrom of the dark forces that surround her. Using the archetypal figure of Ophelia, The Ophelia Project excavates and unravels the delicate balance between women, madness, and suicide through a multimedia physical theatre investigation. Weaving a collection of poems, historical texts, and journal entries of renowned poets Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolfe, who tragically took their own lives and wrote prolifically about the daily struggle and agony between life, death and madness, the Ophelia Project walks the tightrope between these realms, aiming to illuminate the poetry of being in-between: life and death, madness and reason.

Performed by:

Monique Massiah, Elizabeth Widmer, Kerry Wieder, and Kristi Detch

Media Design: Dallas Nichols

Lighting Design: Tamar Geist

Sound Design: Rachel Bowditch

Costume Design: Jayoung Yoon

Stage Management: Laura Strelka

Script Devised by Rachel Bowditch, Katie May, Elizabeth Widmer, Kerry Wieder, and Caitlyn Conlin in the Spring of 2008.

This performance is made possible in part by a grant from the Herberger College of the Arts, Arizona State University.

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SPECTRUM

**NEW**Site-specific work by Vessel

May 2nd, 2008

First Friday Phoenix Fringe Festival

Performed by the students in the M.O.V.E. class in the School of Theatre and Film at Arizona State University

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Founded in 1995 by Rachel Bowditch and Lea Bender, Vessel is a theatre company dedicated to exploring innovative intersections between physical theatre, dance, circus, visual arts and multi-media technology.  Our goal is to create exciting, visually stunning, original work.  Our combined international experience results in a style that crosses boundaries of theatrical form. Based in NYC and Phoenix, Arizona, Vessel draws actors, dancers, circus artists, magicians, playwrights, poets, musicians and designers into a single creative endeavor.  Creating a common physical vocabulary through vigorous physical preparation drawing on Lecoq pedagogy, Viewpoints and RasaBoxes actor training techniques is the foundation of our work.  From the street to the stage our aim is to create a poetry of space that brings our stories to life in dynamic, poignant and visceral forms while creating a sense of intimacy and connection with our audiences.

Vessel performs TRANSFIX at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Fringe Festival 2003. Photo by Katrina ©2003.

TRANSFIX

Sound on the Ground

Mesa Arts Center

April 17th, 8pm-10pm

$6

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