We are honored to announce that AnomalousCo has been awarded an LMCC 2024 Manhattan Arts Grants for our next iteration of "(beyond) Doomsday Scrolling"!
(beyond) Doomsday Scrolling /
(beyond) Doomsday Scrolling opens on February 16th at HERE, NYC. Set in an imagined theatre sheltering women fleeing from wars across time and across the globe, this dramatic cabaret connects the invasion of Ukraine with the larger landscape of systemic aggression around the world – and centers women in the story of war.
This multilingual show is performed by 12 women and 1 man, from multiple generations and 10 countries: Ukraine, Poland, Iceland, Georgia, Moldova, Russia, Scotland, Italy, Cuba, and the US. Featuring a live band headed by Ukrainian musician and anti-war activist Lesya Verba, with songs ranging freely over cultures, eras, and genres, the piece conveys experiences of displacement and resistance through drama and satire, personal testimony and living newspaper, and text drawn from the long tradition of women’s war writing - amplifying the voices of women as social actors in wartime.
The current iteration of the show will run from February 16 - 26 at the HERE.
ROCKABY by Samuel Beckett, November 3,4,5 /
“Beckett & the Virtual,” first produced in 2021, has been invited to “Not I: 50th Annyversary” - a Theatre Festival and Beckett Symposium hosted by Assumption University, and BrickBox Theatre in Worcester, MA.
November 2, Conference talks:
Diana Zhdanova, “Beckett & the Virtual”- a presentation of AnomalousCo’s experimental project, with video installation of several short plays developed during “Beckett & the Virtual” by a multinational team of collaborating artists.
Dr. Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva, “Flesh Melt off the Bone: Character, Actor, and Identity in Beckett.”
“Krapp’s Last Tape”, a presentation of the New Media film directed by Marc Grandsard with Lloyd Bricken.
Special Guest: S. E. Gontarski.
November 3,4,5:
Rockaby, directed by Diana Zhdanova with Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva; BrickBox Threatre, Worcester, MA.
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Presented short plays developed during “Beckett & the Virtual”:
“Come and Go” by @galya.zdanova with @shirshunya @nadyachernykh ;
“Breath” by @farrahkarapetian ;
“That Time” @adrianna_cudnik, Przemek Wasilkovski ;
“Ohio Impromptu” @kyodeon, @brickenlloyd ;
“Rough for Theatre I” @philipsalata , @piotr_siwek_, @drugov.fulcro ;
“Ghost Trio” by @hapticactionnetwork ;
“Words and Music” by Michael Hunter with @llamboy and @luchoaros ;
“Rough for Radio I” by Diana Zhdanova, with Marc Grandsard, Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva and Philip Salata ;
“Krapp’s Last Tape” by @rachel.andersonlrabern.
(beyond) Doomsday Scrolling /
Dear friends!
We would like to thank you for supporting and attending AnomalousCo’s (beyond) Doomsday Scrolling, and for your generous donations.
Thanks to YOU we were able to raise a total of $11,500 from the first two iterations of the show. All proceeds were distributed among several organizations and sent out for the immediate assistance of those who are in need. We did not reimburse ourselves for any production costs; 100% of ALL ticket proceeds and donations went directly to the cause.
We also wish to thank everybody who supported the process and participated in organizing and creating the show: each of you made an enormous and meaningful contribution. And we are beyond grateful to our partner, The Center at West Park, for hosting these special performances in support of Ukraine, as well as to CHASHAMA and LEIMAY for your generous in-kind donations of rehearsal space.
We continue development of (beyond) Doomsday Scrolling - a music-driven work of documentary-theatre investigating the theme of women, war, and displacement in a global context, created by artist-activists from 11 countries.
We continue to seek development support for our work:
If you are interested in learning more about ways you can support the development - whether through financial support, in-kind human donations of space, materials, and other resources, or by contributing your skills, talents, and time to our collaborative work, please, reach out to us directly at: kathryn@anomalousco.com
Love & Information /
AnomalousCo launches Love and Information - a hybrid of New Media and Theatre, collaboratively created by a global ensemble of multimedia artists from Puerto Rico and the US, China, Russia, Spain, Chile, Poland, Brazil, Italy, Estonia:
Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva
Diana Zhdanova
Lily Lamboy
Michael Hunter
Simona DeFeo
Philip Salata
Michael Velez Ramos
Galina Zhdanova
Janilka Glorimar
Lloyd Bricken
Jeremy Goren
Adrianna Cudnik
Luis Aros
Przemek Wasilkowski
Claudia Godi
Samantha Francisco Rossetti
Polina Alyokhina
Adriana GL
La Uve
Beckett & the Virtual /
Our festival will start tomorrow!
APRIL 8-11
Tickets available at:
http://www.anomalousco.com/virtual-laboratory
•ROCKABY (directed by Diana Zhdanova with Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva, sound design Derek Phillips)
•BREATH (directed by Farrah Karapetian)
•NACHT UND TRÄUME (directed by Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva with Adrianna Cudnik, Alina Pokrovskaya, Diana Zhdanova. Edited by Daniel Jackson)
•CATASTROPHE (directed by Michael Hunter with Diana Zhdanova, Beth Slade, Hannah Renè Strauss)
•OHIO IMPROMPTU (directed by Kyle Gillette with Lloyd Bricken)
•COME AND GO (directed by Galina Zdanova with Nadya Chernykh, Anastasia Shirshina)
•THAT TIME (directed by Przemek Wasilkowski with Adrianna Cudnik)
•ROUGH FOR THEATRE I (directed by Philip Salata with Piotr Siwek, Alexandr Drugov)
•KRAPP’S LAST TAPE (directed by Marc Grandsard with Lloyd Bricken)
•ROUGH FOR RADIO I (directed by Diana Zhdanova with Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva, Marc Grandsard, sound design by Philip Salata)
•GHOST TRIO (Directed by Daniel Jackson)
•7 POEMS BY SAMUEL BECKETT (directed by Michał Telega, Bartek Cieniawa, with Paweł Monsiel, Rafał Szumera, Filip Rudnicki, Bartek Cieniawa)
•WORDS AND MUSIC (directed by Michael Hunter, with Lily Lamboy, Luis Aros, Derek Phillips)
•KRAPP’S LAST TAPE (directed by Rachel Andersonl-Rabern with Atticus Rabern, Jesse Baldwin, Daniel Sack)
•RESPONSE TO BECKETT (by Kyle Gillette, Rachel Joseph, Daniel Sack, and Kris Salata)
Laboratory & Festival! /
Beckett & the Virtual - an international theatre laboratory in the virtual absurd
Beckett was a formalist whose work explores the tension between the flow of lived experience and the mechanical within that flow. His later experiments, especially, play at the intersection between the technological and the inner landscape of the human being in order to enter more deeply into the complexities of that inner world. He is a playwright for our moment, with all of its pain, its absurdity, its limits, and its possibilities.
Beckett wirtualnie - międzynarodowe laboratorium teatralne w przestrzeni wirtualnego absurdu
Beckett był formalistą, który w swojej pracy badał napięcie pomiędzy przeżywanym doświadczeniem, a mechanicznością życiowego procesu. Szczególnie jego późniejsze eksperymenty współdziałają na przecięciu technologicznego i wewnętrznego krajobrazu człowieka, aby głębiej wejść w złożoność świata wewnętrznego. Jest dramaturgiem naszej codzienności, z całym jej bólem, absurdem, ograniczeniami i możliwościami.Беккет и виртуальная реальность - международная театральная лаборатория виртуального абсурда
Беккет был формалист, его работа исследовала соединение живого потока и механического процесса в этом живом потоке. В более поздних экспериментах Беккета, особенно в пьесах, где пресекаются технологии и внутренний мир персонажа, он углубляется в сложность психологизма за счет технологических средств. Беккет - писатель нашего времени, его болезненности, абсурда, ограничений и возможностей. Порой Беккет даже исключает актера из пьесы. Таким образом он оставляет зрителя наедине с самим собой. “Наедине с собой” - состояние карантина.Laboratory: March 13 - April 4, 2021
Online Festival: April 5 - 11
More to follow - stay tuned!
Выпускники Фильштинского проведут читку пьесы о борьбе с гомофобией (Filshtinsky’s Graduates Give a Reading of a Play About the Fight Against Homophobia) /
We’re headline news in the Moscow journal TEATR!
http://oteatre.info/neprilichno-pola-vogel/?fbclid=IwAR1fsoqCgA8tF7HxStrVZFDW9uwCcGua5YzhjBRHSSR9zI900Ojst-jQBug
Алена Семенова, Журнал ТЕАТР. (The Journal THEATRE.), Moscow, 06/30/2020
История о пьесе, скандале, трагедии… о первом поцелуе двух женщин на Бродвее... /
Check us out at Fringe PVD! /
We’re pretty excited to be featured on the landing page of Fringe PVD 2019! (Yes, those are some of our collective fingers). In Providence, RI on July 25? Come check out the current draft of Augustine’s Dream!
SHOWTIMES
Thursday 7/25 at 10:00pm
LOCATION
WaterFire Arts Center - Main Hall
475 Valley St.
Providence, RI 02908
COST
Individual Tickets - $5.00
