Come join theater artists Katie Pearl and Lisa D’Amour to share stories about your life in Milton.
Theater artists PearlDamour (Katie Pearl and Lisa D’Amour) are traveling to 5 Milton’s across the U.S. in order to gather research for an upcoming performance project called “Milton”. They are recruiting individuals from Milton, MA to come together on Saturday, September 20 for a story circle — a guided conversation in which each person present is invited to share thoughts, memories and dreams about what it means to live in your hometown. This is a great opportunity to talk with a group of Miltonians you might never meet on your own. Ages from 10-100 are encouraged!
Once they have visited all 5 Miltons, the artists will weave details from all of these stories together to create ONE monologue that contains details from all of the people they talk to in the Miltons across the country. The performance is designed to explore the diverse range of age, experience, race and class that makes up the United States – many people, many Miltons, one country. When complete, the show will be performed in all five Miltons, as well as in major urban centers.
Hosted by the theater company PearlDamour
Saturday, September 22, 2pm – 3:30pm
Conference room, Milton Public Library
476 Canton Avenue, FREE
Please contact Lisa D’Amour if you would like to participate: lisa@pearldamour.com, or just come by the library on Saturday.
ABOUT PEARLDAMOUR
Katie Pearl and Lisa D’Amour have a 15-year history of creating performance work for theaters and non-traditional sites in New York, Austin, Minneapolis, Chicago and New Orleans as PearlDamour. PearlDamour is known for mysterious and often interactive work that combines theater with installation and is attentive to the performer-audience relationship. Their process is deeply collaborative and continually evolving, with a different writer/director/performer partner for each project. In 2003, they received an OBIE Award for Nita & Zita, a performance they created in New Orleans with ArtSpot Productions, in which Katie Pearl portrayed “Zita” and Lisa D’Amour directed. Recent New York based commissions include How to Build a Forest (The Kitchen), Terrible Things (PS 122), LIMO (Whitney Museum’s Performance on 42nd Series) and Bird Eye Blue Print (Brookfield Properties @ WTF).
PearlDamour’s work has also been produced and presented by HERE Arts Center (NYC), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), FuseBox Festival (Austin), ArtSpot Productions/Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans), Brown University (Providence), and more. How to Build a Forest was developed through residencies at The Mitchell Center for the Arts (Houston), Appalachian State University and Hampshire College. They are currently developing a performance for the meadow at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, PA with designer Mimi Lien. PearlDamour are 3-time winners of the Rockefeller MAP Fund grant, and are 2009 recipients of a Creative Capital Award for the research, development and production of How to Build a Forest.
More about the artists at: www.pearldamour.com
ABOUT MILTON
Milton is a performance that examines the small individual American under the vast American sky. First we will choose five of the many towns in the U.S. named “Milton” and interview a broad cross-section of residents, asking both personal and philosophical questions. Then, Lisa will write a monologue that incorporates material from all responses to be performed in front of 5 separate video screens showing 5 views of each Milton’s sky. The monologue will be performed by a person, of a different age / race / gender each night, creating intentional awkwardness and uncanny alignment as multiple, contrasting voices move fluidly through the “one” body of the performer – all in front of the ongoing presence of an ever-changing sky. The constellations we see at night are imaginary entities, constructed by humans to give meaning and order to the vastness of the night sky. With our latest performance, we will create a new, earthbound constellation named Milton that we look to for guidance and wisdom, as we attempt to