Old Paper Houses

Saturday, April 27-Sunday, April 28

A work-in-progress showing of

OLD PAPER HOUSES
Created by PieholeAdapted from
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Blithedale Romance and Bernadette Mayer’s The Golden Book of Words
Directed by Tara Ahmadinejad

In New England the winter is five months long, everybody eats beans, everything freezes, and you have to go out and get cold. But behind the wind-rattled windowpanes of drafty houses, a few lonely idealists imagine a simpler time: when farmer poets toiled in fellowship with nature, despite doubt and drama and how early they had to get up in the morning. Traveling between the snowdrifts of 1970s Massachusetts and the hayfields of an 1840s Transcendental Utopia, Old Paper Houses asks: what does it take to believe in something and why do people live in places that are so damned cold?

Photo by Kathryn Wallem, from our OLD PAPER HOUSES video shoot

Produced and Dramaturged by Elliot B. Quick
Stage Managed and Dramaturged by Kathryn Wallem

Featuring:
Chris Haag                        Alexandra Panzer
Jessie Renee Hopkins        Emilie Soffe
Allison LaPlatney              Jeff Wood
Greg Nussen

Music by Jason Sigal
Video design by Aniela Coveleski and Eva von Schweintz
Set design consultation by Kristin Robinson
Lighting design by Dan Stearns
Sound Design by Danny Bowman

Saturday, April 27th @ 6pm
Saturday, April 27th @ 9pm
Sunday, April 28th @ 6pm

Presented in association with the Columbia School of the Arts
In the Schapiro Theatre
605 West 115th Street
To RSVP, email [email protected]
Tickets are FREE