SKI END
Created by Piehole
Directed by Tara Ahmadinejad
April 30 - May 19, 2017
presented by the New Ohio Theatre
154 Christopher Street, West Village, NYC
In Piehole's SKI END, an abandoned ski shop becomes the center of the universe. A group of 30-whatever urbanites finds itself stuck in a flood-damaged building with a makeshift skate ramp, dead birds, and the tattered banner of a final blowout sale. From these clues they ritualistically reanimate a bygone world of Ski, until they incite a cosmic force. Rising from the ruins of economic and environmental dread, Piehole’s SKI END examines chronic patterns of apocalyptic despair and what it takes to face The Sublime.
Directed by Tara Ahmadinejad
April 30 - May 19, 2017
presented by the New Ohio Theatre
154 Christopher Street, West Village, NYC
In Piehole's SKI END, an abandoned ski shop becomes the center of the universe. A group of 30-whatever urbanites finds itself stuck in a flood-damaged building with a makeshift skate ramp, dead birds, and the tattered banner of a final blowout sale. From these clues they ritualistically reanimate a bygone world of Ski, until they incite a cosmic force. Rising from the ruins of economic and environmental dread, Piehole’s SKI END examines chronic patterns of apocalyptic despair and what it takes to face The Sublime.
SKI END was supported by the Archive Residency Program, a collaboration between the New Ohio Theatre and IRT.
Photography by Matthew Dunivan.
Ensemble Toni Ann DeNoble*, Kijani-Ali Gaulman, Allison LaPlatney, Maite Martin, Alexandra Panzer, Emilie Soffe, Nicole Suazo, Ben Vigus, Jeff Wood
Producer/Dramaturg Elliot B. Quick Dramaturg Lauren Whitehead Songs Deepali Gupta Set Design Alexandra Panzer Lighting Design Oona Curley Sound Design Joey Wolfslau Video Design Matt Romein Costume Design Olivia Gibian Technical Director/Production Manager Skylar Fox Assistant Director Nicholas Orvis Associate Set Design Hannah Cook Associate Sound Design Heather Motz Rehearsal Stage Manager Ann Barkin Production Stage Manager Johanna Ring Assistant Stage Manager Geovana Gaitan Creative Producer Bailey Williams Press Representative: David Gibbs/DARR Publicity
*Appeared courtesy of Actors Equity Association
SKI END was made possible by the Production Assistance Grant from New York Theatre Workshop, the LMCC Workspace Residency, and the Mental Insight Foundation.
Producer/Dramaturg Elliot B. Quick Dramaturg Lauren Whitehead Songs Deepali Gupta Set Design Alexandra Panzer Lighting Design Oona Curley Sound Design Joey Wolfslau Video Design Matt Romein Costume Design Olivia Gibian Technical Director/Production Manager Skylar Fox Assistant Director Nicholas Orvis Associate Set Design Hannah Cook Associate Sound Design Heather Motz Rehearsal Stage Manager Ann Barkin Production Stage Manager Johanna Ring Assistant Stage Manager Geovana Gaitan Creative Producer Bailey Williams Press Representative: David Gibbs/DARR Publicity
*Appeared courtesy of Actors Equity Association
SKI END was made possible by the Production Assistance Grant from New York Theatre Workshop, the LMCC Workspace Residency, and the Mental Insight Foundation.
PRESS
"...dispenses, almost offhandedly, acute observations about a society in which impermanence passes for progress."
"sweet, eccentric charm"
-The New York Times
"a modern-day answer to Ionesco"
"the most unique theatrical experience you are likely to have this week."
-Pop Dust
"sweet, eccentric charm"
-The New York Times
"a modern-day answer to Ionesco"
"the most unique theatrical experience you are likely to have this week."
-Pop Dust
SKI END history
A workshop production of SKI END was presented in the 2016 Ice Factory Festival from July 27-30, 2016. This immediately followed a development period within the 2015/2016 LMCC Workspace Residency, where a shorter in-progress excerpt was presented in April 2016 at the annual LMCC Open Studios. This excerpt was shown alongside our "Talk to a Teen" participatory multimedia installation, a collaboration with analog video artist Allen Riley.
SKI END was inspired by a real-life abandoned ski shop brought down by the recession and intense flooding during Hurricane Irene. Piehole visited it in the summers of 2014 and 2015, then returned again in the Fall of 2016.
SKI END was inspired by a real-life abandoned ski shop brought down by the recession and intense flooding during Hurricane Irene. Piehole visited it in the summers of 2014 and 2015, then returned again in the Fall of 2016.
