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SITI Company
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America’s leading ensemble theater company was founded by
Artistic Director Anne Bogart with theatrical genius Tadashi Suzuki. The unique blend
of cultural influences has resulted in a creative approach that restores
the wholeness of the human body to the theatrical context and uncovers the
actors' innate expressive abilities.
Productions currently featured for touring include:
Also see Anne Bogart under Lectures & Workshops |
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The American Museum Cycle
Director Anne Bogart, SITI Company and the playwright Charles Mee are developing a series of four productions inspired by the lives and work of great American artists: bobrauschenbergamerica,Hotel Cassiopeia, provoked by Joseph Cornell (premiering March 2006); Soot and Spit (the musical), inspired by self-taught Idaho artist James Castle, and a fourth piece to be announced. Watch the Projects in Development section of our website for details. bobrauschenbergamerica (10 actors). This production won critical acclaim at the BAM's 2003 Next Wave Festival, the 2004 Bonn Biennale and in 2005 at MC 93 Bobigny in Paris and the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis. The play takes us on a rowdy road trip through the American landscape – as Robert Rauschenberg might have conceived it had he been a playwright instead of one of America's greatest visual artists.
“....Mr. Mee and Ms. Bogart take Mr. Rauschenberg's work as
inspiration and extrapolate it out into six dimensions or so. Time
is one. Our collective memory of the 1950's, 60's and beyond is
another. Music is a third.”
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The Triptych (solos)
SITI Company recently completed a trilogy about the artistic process. What joins these three works is the infectious enthusiasm of these individuals for their art. The productions are available as a trio or individually.
BOB with Will Bond as Robert Wilson |
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DEATH AND THE PLOUGHMAN Written by Johannes Von Saaz Translated by Michael West Directed by Anne Bogart (3 actors) How do we manage to live full and vibrant lives while death breathes down our necks? This hauntingly beautiful play, written in Germany in 1401, awakens the complex mystery encased in this deeply disturbing question. A man loses his beloved wife in her prime and demands answers for his ensuing pain. The result is an extraordinarily contemporary exploration of what it means to be alive in the world.
“...a theme of ineffable beauty, sadness and spirituality. Here is a
prayerful and surprisingly playful marriage of the medieval and the
modern...Death and the Ploughman recasts timeless questions into
a meditation on the ravages of life and loss.”
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War of the Worlds - The Radio Play (7 actors) On the foggy fall evening of October 30, 1938, America went to war with Mars! War of the Worlds was presented as a Halloween thriller which terrified a nation. 68 years later SITI Company brings this radio classic to life in a staged version of the H.G. Wells/Howard Koch/Orson Welles/Mercury Theater production.
"…a spellbindingly evocative snapshot of America's most memorable trick or treat."
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systems/layers Music by Rachel's Directed by Barney O'Hanlon (8 actors, 4 musicians) A dance/theater piece that follows eight characters through one day in an urban environment. Louisville music ensemble Rachel’sperforms live. Featuring iconic imagery systems/layers taps into the associative creativity of the audience. The movement is fluid and precise, capturing the small mysteries of daily life – waking, routines of living, survival, love, desire, repose. The link between the onstage action and the audience’s imagination is a shared and yet distinctive elixir; the result is a highly personalized, associative journey for every person present.
“Beautifully crafted sonic portraits (created primarily with bass, cello, viola and piano) pull fragmented images from the recesses of the brain, as recordings of airport boarding calls sit alongside chirping birds…stunning concept-piece about modern urban life.”
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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (8 actors) This remarkable production represents SITI Company’s first adventure with Shakespeare and a bold reinvention the classic. Its hallmarks are the actors’ intense physicality and the theatrical magic created using minimal effects.
“Starkly Staged 'Midsummer' Captures Magic: The brilliant cast creates a most rare vision in playing multiple roles, moving about the reflective black vinyl stage like fleet-footed dancers interpreting Shakespeare's text through movement...a gloriously inventive production.”
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