Live Theatre NYC:
TUNNEL (From Suez to Candlewood) premieres Sept 25, 2021
Theater
for the New City, Crystal Field Executive Director, presents TUNNEL (From
Suez to Candlewood).
An environmental musical theater project
originally introduced at Theater for the New City's 2021 Festival of the Arts,
the story is a sometimes surreal, sometimes scientific, always mythopoetic
exploration of the construction of canals and of dams creating lakes.
A
non-binary couple living in Egypt holds one share of stock in a corporation
that owns the Suez Canal and Candlewood Lake, Connecticut, both of which are
“man-made.” When the couple travels from Egypt to America to visit their lake,
they connect with a couple of residents there that have been able to adapt and
inhabit the flooded towns beneath the lake - by becoming amphibious.
Stock
certificate of ownership in the Suez Canal – and Candlewood Lake!
"Peter Dizozza, a straitlaced-looking
lawyer who is the director of Williamsburg’s WAH Theatre, [is] one of a handful
of antifolk piano players with roots in musical theatre, and his humor is at
once whimsical and politically charged."
- New
Yorker Magazine
photo of Peter Dizozza by
Kimberly Mossel
Dizozza is a City Artist
Corps Grants recipient
The
City Artist Corps Grants program is presented by The New York Foundation for
the Arts (NYFA) and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA),
with support from the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) as well
as Queens Theatre.
TUNNEL (From Suez
to Candlewood) will be presented as a staged reading, featuring ten actors
performing Dizozza’s original script, music and songs, with choreography by
director Terry Lee King.
This premiere performance will take place at
Theatre
for the New City, Cabaret Space, 155 First Avenue, New York, NY
10003 at 8PM on Saturday, September 25th, 2021
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