The troupe, consisting of performers mostly in their 20s and 30s and operating on a tissue-thin budget, plans to stage its first production this month at Le Poisson Rouge (the former Village Gate) on Bleecker Street, starting on Aug. 21.
Most evocatively, the video gives us staged re-creations of Caravaggio paintings, beautifully capturing his luminous canvases so that it sometimes takes a moment to realize that the tableaus consist of performers, not paint.
Performed in teahouses throughout northern China, it usually consists of two performers dressed in traditional garb engaging in witty banter.
This organization consists of 13 performers, an office force of ten, about 250 ushers and ticket sellers and twelve planes.
By far the least graceful move is what I later found out is called the "seat drag," which consists of two performers cycling in perfect sync around the room and, when you least expect it, "BAM" they'll just stand up and have their saddle fall onto the ground, creating a loud noise while they continue pedaling, dragging the seat behind them this also happens to be one of the most popular moves.
(One piece, "The First Thing," lasts all of a minute and consists of the performer Ed Rapley giving voice to a first reaction to his audience of one, invoking in this instance my receding hairline. Gee, Ed...) Conversely, intimacy and kindness are the hallmarks of two pieces containing Nurse in the title.
The Second City ensemble consists of eight youthful performers: 6 boys and 2 girls.
Directed by rapper Ice-T and featuring himself as principal investigator, this documentary consists of some 50 performers discussing how they got into the rap business and giving impromptu demonstrations of their work and items from their repertoire.
Is this production better than the all-British "Cymbeline" coming from the Globe on London's Bankside to the Brooklyn Academy of Music March 5 to 17? Well, Mike Alfreds's cast consists of just six performers in white pajamas, so comparisons are difficult.
