2012 SoLow Festival Calendar
The schedule will continue to update. First is a performance calendar. Scroll below to see detailed summaries of each performance and artist. Click on show titles and venue locations for more information.
We recommend reservations for all shows since seating is limited. Please email the artist (email address listed in show description) or solowfestival@gmail.com to reserve your seat of any and all shows or to ask any questions.
Thursday June 14, 2012
Opening Night Party @ Quig's : 9pm
Friday June 15, 2012
The 5th Floor @ Foremost Building : Every 20 minutes from 7-9pm
Net@Apt. 1428 South Broad Street between Reed and Dickinson. 8pm. 30-40 min. Free!
Saturday June 16, 2012
Net@Apartment. 1428 South Broad Street between Reed and Dickinson. 8pm. 30-40 min. Free!
Sunday June 17, 2012
The 5th Floor @ Foremost Building : Every 20 minutes from 2-4pm
A Date @ Ethical Society: 2pm
Off the Chain@ Mascher : 7pm
For those who I love @ Mascher: 7pm
VCR Love@ Trestle Inn : 7pm
The 5th Floor @ Foremost Building : Every 20 minutes from 7-9pm
Monday June 18, 2012
Stirring the Pot @ Painted Bride : 7:00pm
Tuesday June 19, 2012
God Unicorn Serpent @ Adrienne: 7:30pm
Sex Across the Catechism@Northern Liberties Community Center: 8:00pm. 40 min.
Wednesday June 20, 2012
Tell Me A Story @ Shot Tower : 7-9pm
Seven Tragedies of Consumer Desire @ Northern Liberties Community Center. 7pm. 30 min.
Suicide Punchline @ Northern Liberties Community Center : 8:00pm. 40 min.
Thursday June 21, 2012
God Unicorn Serpent @ Arts Parlor: 7pm
Peep Show@ Apartment. 10th & Dudley : Multiple, every 20 min starting 7pm
Friday June 22, 2012
Expected Value@ Viking Mill : Ongoing 6-10pm
Peep Show@ Apartment. 10th & Dudley : Multiple, every 20 min starting at 7pm
Drunk Lion@ Robin's Bookstore : 9pm
Stirring the Pot@ Adrienne Basement : 10pm
Saturday June 23, 2012
God Unicorn Serpent @ Adrienne: 1:30pm
Expected Value @ Viking Mill : Ongoing 6-10pm
Off the Chain@ Mascher : 7pm
For those who I love @ Mascher: 7pm
God Unicorn Serpent @ Adrienne: 8pm
Drunk Lion@ Robin's Bookstore : 8pm
Sunday June 24, 2012
A Date @ Ethical Society: 2pm
Stirring the Pot @ Painted Bride : 2pm
Off the Chain @ Mascher : 4pm
For those who I love @ Mascher: 4pm
About the Shows
David Azoulay
God Unicorn Serpent
Bring your loneliness with you. Bring your (failed?) hopes and dreams. Bring your
presence. The unicorn meets the serpent, you meet the performer, and what happens in the interstices? Justice is born! Reservations-email: mentordivinity@yahoo.com.
PWYC. 65 min.
Adriennebasement 6/19 @ 7:30, 6/23 @ 1:30 & 8pm - 2030 Sansom
The Arts Parlorcourtyard 6/21 @ 7pm - 1170 S. Broad Street
Bright Light Theatre
The 5th Floor
Bright Light Theatre takes you on a thrilling and intimate ride on a mysterious elevator. The story unfolds as you travel floor to floor; secrets are revealed as the doors open and close. As characters escape down hallways and emerge from dark corners, you become part of the action itself! Takes Place in an actual elevator! PWYC. Reservations:brightlighttheatre.ticketleap.com/the5thfloor
The Foremost Building. Every 20 min. Fri. 6/15 7-9pm. Sat. 6/16 - 8-10pmSAT IS SOLD OUT Sun. 6/17 - 2-4pm and 7-9pm.
525 S. 4th Street
Carly Bodnar and Kristen Scatton
Stirring the Pot: Examining the So-Called War on Women
What questions arise when politics, religion, cultural norms, and reproductive rights are thrown into a pot and stirred? "Stirring the Pot" is a workshop of a devised piece that examines all angles and persepectives of the "war on women." Women, men, conservatives, liberals, Christians and pagans are invited. Warning: Show may offend all of the above.
The Painted Bride 230 Vine St on Mon.6/18 at 7pm & Sun. 6/24 at 2pm.
The Adrienne Basement: 2030 Sansom St. on Fri. 6/22 at 10pm. Reservations:solowfestival@gmail.com. PWYC $5.
Austen Brown and Shaun Baer
Expected Value
Expected Value is a sound and sculpture experiment. A cacophonous environment where perceptions of order are dictated by ones own spatial relationship to sound, where dissimilar events are organized after they’re understood independently.
Viking Mill- 2026 East Hagert Street.Fri. 6/22 from 6pm - 10pm. Sat. 6/23 from 6pm - 10pm. Length: looping during these times. PWYC.
Thomas Choinacky
Off the Chain
When put into words the event is never as true or messy as the lived experience. Traveling through the events of an unexpected bicycle accident, you can loose track of yourself. Muscle memory transforms movement into shadows into obsession. Get back on the bike.
Mascher Space Co-Op - June 17 & 23rd at 7:00pm. June 24th at 4:00pm. PWYC$5-$10. 155 Cecil B Moore
Chris Davis
Drunk Lion
A lonely alcoholic Lion spends his days drinking into oblivion in a cantina, until he meets Chris, a young foreigner learning how to speak Spanish. The unlikely pair forge an intoxicated bond over life, love, and alcohol. 60 min.
Robin's Bookstore. 110 south 13th street,Thursday June 21st 7pm. Fri. 6/22 at 9pm.Sat.6/23 at 8pm. Reservations to Drunk Lion: email drunklion@inbox.com or 215.495.5863. PWYC: $10-$15 sliding scale. 60min.
Miriam Dretler
A Date
About a woman getting ready to go on a date. As she gets dressed, she goes in and out of three characters: Bubble Girl, Femme Fatale, and Zen Woman. Femme Fatal refuses to get into a mini van, Bubble Girl celebrates, and Zen Woman has extra compassion especially for a man's first date. Miriam has performed in the Philadelphia Fringe Festival and previous projects include If Coffee Could Talk, The Dominatrix and the Jewish Housewife, and Romeo and Juliet in NYC after completing a 2-year conservatory Meisner Acting Program. A Date has been updated and revised after participation in Tim Miller's performance workshop this spring.
Philadelphia Ethical Society-1906 Rittenhouse Square. Sunday June 17 and Sunday June 24th at 2:00pm. Show length: 45 min. PWYC $10. At Door.
Josh Hitchens
Stoker's Dracula
"Stoker's Dracula" is a 60 minute adaptation of Bram Stoker's classic tale of terror,
preserving Stoker's original text of diary entries, letters, and newspaper clippings.
Receiving rave reviews from critics and audiences, Josh Hitchens has performed the
play for the Rosenbach Museum, Philly Fringe, Independent Voices Festival, and
people's homes. PWYC $10 sugg. Email Reservations: stokers.dracula@yahoo.com
The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre - 2111 Sansom St. 6/18 @ 9pm
VCR Love
A solo performance about the one thing everybody enjoys alone but never
speaks of in mixed company: pornography. Using stories both personal and
universal VCR Love explores, lampoons, questions and celebrates how porn has
changed in the past 25 years.70 min. $5-$10 PWYC.
The Trestle InnSun. 6/17 @ 7pm - 339 N. 11th Street
Amy Kilgard
Seven Tragedies of Consumer Desire
Seven Tragedies of Consumer Desire is part of my full-length solo performance, Triskaidekaphobia: 13 Consumer Tragedies. The show is a collection of stories, moments, images, and memorabilia from almost a decade of research about our everyday lives as consumers. From my own experiences as a retail clerk at a large box store to others’ distinctive, sometimes bizarre, customer service interactions, I explore what it means to be a consumer today, and how it all might change tomorrow. PWYC$5-$10. 35 min.
700 N. 3rd St. Northern Liberties Community Center at 3rd and Fairmount. Wed. 6/20 at 7pm.
Hillary Rea
Tell Me A Story
Within the intimate setting of a Queen Village coffee shop, local storytellers and comedians reveal true stories based on a theme. Join host Hillary Rea for an evening of secrets spilled, confessions blurted, and memories shared. In addition to nine curated stories, witness one lucky audience member become the Wild Card storyteller, where the pressure is on to tell a a tale connected to the theme of the night. Admission is FREE, Seating is limited. Wed. 6/20 from 7pm - 9pm. Shot Tower Coffee - 542 Christian Street.
Jen Tuder
Suicide Punchline
Suicide Punchline takes you on a journey from life to death, with some jokes in between. In this solo performance, performer Jen Tuder (Sex Across the Curriculum) rehearses survival by interrogating the dead, kidding around at cocktail parties, and building dioramas of the afterlife. Suicide Punchline provides a lifeline for anyone who’s ever wondered if there’s life after a loved one’s death. PWYC $5-$10. Length: 40 min.
700 N. 3rd St. Northern Liberties Community Center, 3rd and Fairmount. Wed. 6/20 at 8pm
Jen Tuder
Sex Across the Catechism
Join Helen Gustafson, former high school guidance counselor turned spiritual counselor, for lessons in the Gospel of Sex. In her “Sexuality and Spirituality Workshop” Helen will share the revelations given to her by Our Lord Jesus Christ as he appeared to her on the road to Wal-Mart. This workshop is for anyone who has wondered, “Why should being a Christian mean being ashamed of sex?” PWYC $5-$10. Length: 40 min.
700 N. 3rd St. Northern Liberties Community Center 3rd and Fairmount. Tues. 6/19 at 8pm.
For those who I love
Love and hate collide in a complicated mother daughter relationship where chaotic and sensual dancing allows for underlying realities to surface. Without Dolly Parton and John Rambo, none of this would occur. Alie makes conversations that frame themselves on her body as they voice their opinions about love and hate.PWYC.
Mascher Space Co-Op - June 17 & 23 at 7pm. June 24th at 4pm. - 155 Cecil B Moore
Peep Show
100% Live, Real Girl! XXX! Dangerous Curves! Voyeurism at its finest! It's not smut, it's ART. 20 min. $10 PWYC. Free Beer and Pretzels! 20 min. In an apartment - 10th and Dudley. Reservations:meghannw@gmail.com for more info. VERY LIMITED SEATING (2-3 PER SHOW!!!)
Thursday June 21 - 7 PM, 7:15 PM, 7:30 PM, 7:45 PM
Friday June 22 - 7 PM, 7:15 PM, 7:30 PM, 7:45 PM
Ilse Zoerb
Net.
Performed in her apartment. The internet allows us to have unlimited access to friends and family virtually at any time. However, the cyber presence of our loved ones is at the mercy of technical difficulty, rick of over exposure, and is never the same as the real, physical thing. NET explores how technology affects our most intimate relationships. Even more terrifying is the possibility that it is not the mode of communication that is the problem, but the relationship itself. 1428 South Broad Street between Reed and Dickinson
June 15 at 8pm. June 16 at 8pm. Free!(tip jar?) with FrEe BeEr!