For
Immediate Release
Please Contact:
Melanie Sylvan, Executive
Producer
+1-917-202-4481
melsylvan@yahoo.com
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From the people who brought
God's Waiting Room to The Merlin Theatre
New
York City's
Electric Pear Productions Presents
CRONOTOPIA
at the Sziget
Festival
August, 2007
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The tale of Cronos docks on the shores of
Budapest.
The struggle for control over the
development of the Danube is told through myth, music and movement in this
dual-language performance created by New
York City's Electric Pear Productions in collaboration with Hungarian
actors and artists.
New
York and Budapest,
myth and reality collide in this bi-lingual performance piece created
specifically for the Sziget stage!
Featuring Yvette Feuer, Andrew Hefler,
Otto Pecs, Ashlin Halfnight and Melanie Sylvan.
Music by Samu
Gryllus.
Thursday, August 9th at
18:30
Saturday, August 11th at
18:30
at the Sziget
Festival
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Electric Pear Productions was started
in March 2006 by Playwright Ashlin Halfnight, and Producer Melanie Sylvan after
their production of the award-winning play, God's Waiting Room at the Merlin International
Theatre. As a 2006 Fulbright Scholar working with Nemzeti
Szinhazin Budapest,
Ashlin Halfnight began Cronotopia.
After receiving a Theatre Communications Group Travel
Grant to return to Budapest
to continue developing the bi-lingual play, Electric Pear will present the piece
at the Sziget Festival in August, 2007. The piece will be developed into a
unique, many-tiered intermingling of American and Hungarian influences -
blending the culture, history, and current political issues that flow through
Budapest.
The project features 3 Hungarian Fulbright
Scholars: Yvette Feuer, Otto Pecs and Dramaturg, Kinga Keszthelyi; and American
Fulbright Scholar, Ashlin Halfnight.
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Ashlin Halfnight,
Executive Producer; Emily Long, Literary Director; Melanie Sylvan, Executive
Producer
Electric Pear Productions is a non-profit theater company committed to
deepening the scope of the American performance landscape by supporting,
creating and showcasing both:
- Original American plays of superior quality and
originality
- Cross-genre and cross-border collaborative projects for the
stage
The
goal of the company is to be a cultivator, backer and presenter - a true hub -
of original and persuasive creative endeavors that find their base in the live
theatrical experience, but pull together influences and inspirations from the
world at large.
Each
season the company produces two new plays, one collaborative international
piece, and one cross-genre composition.
Electric Pear: At home on the stage, at play in the
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