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WANTED: Video Artist for theater collaboration in new play by Nick Jones 

Video Artist sought immediately to assist in shooting, capturing and editing footage to be integrated in new play by Nick Jones. "Rockberry: The Last One Man Show" is being premiered in June as part of the Brick Theater's extremely important Pretentious Festival.  Show dates are June 9, 14 and 23rd.  Video artist need not attend shows, though technical assistance in switching between live video feed, pre-recorded video bits, and projected English supertitles (some of the play is in French) during the performances is also desired.  Shooting will involve fun trips to the forest. 

"Rockberry: The Last One Man Show (a play) (or "The Infinity Within)" is a philosophical thriller set at an isolated, low-rent artist's colony. It tells the apocryphal story of an earnest young playwright named Kareem, the laughingstock of the colony, who discovers a strange creature dwelling in the woods beyond the colony walls, a creature who may---or may not-- be a messenger from the future. As the creature describes the golden age which Kareem's art is to usher in and goads him (in telepathic french) to abandon narrative theater and produce his historic masterpiece (an experimental one-man show), Kareem begins to question the nature of his own potential and explore the wilds of his id. Meanwhile the one-man show meanders through telepathic-french development hell, Kareem suffers the unspeakable agonies of self-doubt and criticism, and the other artists at the colony begin to meet bizarre and untimely ends....

The fate of humanity hangs in the balance.

Nick Jones (playwright) is a playwright, director, puppet designer, performer, and co-founder of Jollyship the Whiz-Bang, a puppet rock band. His work has been performed at chashama ("Canada's Mid-Riff") the Bowery Poetry Club ("Sleepless Fishes" and "Crabquistador: Scavenger of God") and Galapagos ("Little Building"), as well as the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art's TBA Festival, the Dublin Fringe Festival, Ars Nova, the Brick Theater, The Kitchen, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and P.S. 122. 

Peter J. Cook (director) has shown work at Ars Nova, P.S. 122, the Luna Lounge, Yale University, the Paul Robeson & the Hangar Theater, and is a 2006 Drama League directing fellow.  His most recent collaboration with Nick Jones was the March 2007 run of "Crabquistador: Scavenger of God" at Ars Nova.  In August of 2007, he will be directing his own adaptation of "Alice in Wonderland" with a cast of forty 12-year olds in Ithaca, New York. 

For further information contact 

Peter J. Cook, director

peterjcook [at] mac.com