May 2011
39 posts
2 tags
All’s Fair in Love and War
© 2007 Joe Basile Joe plays tug a war with a rope with Rob. Joe is seen on stage, Rob is behind the center spinning door. A red handkerchief is tied on the middle of the rope.  Rob: His age surpassed his maturity. Joe: His maturity surpassed his age. Rob: He was indecisive and did not respond well to change. Joe: He thrived on change and short-lived passions.   Rob: He had no passion. He...
May 30th
2 notes
1 tag
May 27th
12 notes
3 tags
May 26th
7 notes
4 tags
May 26th
3 tags
Twitter plays, part CXV
It’s Twitter Plays CXV! This week’s assignment: write a 1-tweet play that has a LIGHTNING BOLT in it. Here are your plays, starting with @DrSomething and the answer to “what if Joseph Heller were a meteorologist?” @DrSomething: Lightning Bolt: Where are you? I can’t see you? Thunder: What are you saying? I can’t hear you? @Alttheatre: Z: “Now where did I...
May 25th
3 tags
May 24th
7 notes
2 tags
Nugget, or: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in...
© 2006 Heather Kelley There are four cubes onstage: three in a row, with the fourth resting on top of the stage left-most cube, creating a “second-story.” HEATHER stands with 2 NEOS (MOLLY & RYAN) downstage of the cubes, a hand resting on either shoulder. The rest of the Ensemble is in the house. ROB: When Heather was a little girl, her parents took her to see the Rockettes. (HEATHER, MOLLY...
May 23rd
1 note
3 tags
My favorite corner is this corner of my kitchen...
This corner is the only corner of my house I can sit at.  This is the corner where I eat.  This corner is also where I usually use my laptop, and is thus the spot where I chat with my mom most mornings.  This is the corner that currently starts and ends my days.  I like it.
May 21st
2 notes
3 tags
May 21st
1 note
2 tags
Weekend Assignment : Describe your favorite...
Take a moment this weekend to find your favorite corner in the world. Take a photo of it, draw it, write down a few words about it. Maybe you could write a dirty limerick about it. Then submit it to us with the Title “My favorite corner is ______” and fill in the blank.
May 20th
3 notes
4 tags
May 19th
3 tags
Twitter plays, part CXIV
It’s Twitter Plays CXIV! This week’s assignment: write a 1-tweet play that has MATH in it. Here are your plays, starting with @checkypantz showing us how May 21 will go down… @checkypantz: A: So, 1/3 is 0.333…. B: Yes. A: And 2/3 then is 0.666…. B: Right. A: So 3/3, which = 1, 0.999…. B: The Universe just melted. 2 from @mightytoycannon: A: I can’t reach high...
May 18th
1 note
2 tags
May 17th
2,265 notes
2 tags
TBA
© 20000-3-7 Connor Kalista This is not a play. ‘Go’ and ‘Curtain’ are never called. A performer is onstage and explains to the audience that the play cannot be performed at this time. The performer will announce and post an alternative time and place where the play will be performed. The performer suggests a time. and place outside the normal boundaries of TML to...
May 16th
3 tags
May 14th
1 note
3 tags
May 13th
3 notes
2 tags
May 12th
5 tags
Twitter plays, part CXIII
It’s Twitter Plays CXIII! In honor of our newest full-length play LOCKER 4173B (final 2 weekends!), which is a heartbreaking/hilarious archeological adventure, we crafted this week’s assignment: write a 1-tweet play that features an ANCIENT ARTIFACT. Here are your plays, starting with @JimmyReefercake expressing the classic axiom: everybody — even ghost indians — loves...
May 11th
6 notes
4 tags
“smart if not altogether satisfying”
– Jason Zinoman ‘Locker No. 4173b’ by the New York Neo-Futurists - Review - NYTimes.com You only have until the 21st! Tickets are going fast! 
May 11th
6 tags
May 10th
1 note
4 tags
“[Locker #4173b] immerses the audience in their process, a surprisingly poetic,...”
– John Peacock Locker No. 4173b - Flavorpill New York
May 9th
2 notes
4 tags
The Vagina...Yes!
© Claudia Alick 2007 4 performers. At Go- 2 female Neofuturists at podiums read from text. Staging should suggest political debate. Lines should be read in overlapping quick pace while retaining intelligibility. Note: Vertical line on side indicates lines to be read simultaneously. NEO 1: Men have clever euphemisms NEO 2: To say they’re taking a Piss, like NEO 1: Leaking the lizard…or NEO...
May 9th
1 note
1 tag
May 8th
4 tags
“…this inventive work of shoe-leather docu-theater gets points for taking...”
– Scott Brown Stage Dive: Things to See Before You Die This Weekend — Vulture
May 7th
4 tags
“…an incredibly moving gloss on our culture’s failure, both in...”
– Metromix New York Locker 4173B - The Monkey - New York, NY Events | Metromix New York
May 7th
4 tags
“But Locker No. 4173B isn’t interested in flattering audiences; Rizzolo and Borg...”
– Mark Peikart, NY Press Mark Peikart reviews Borg’s and Rizzolo’s Locker No. 4173B at The Monkey
May 7th
4 tags
“Sharp-tongued, Joey Rizzolo and uber-enthusiastic Christopher Borg offer a...”
– Alix Cohen  Locker No.4173b Contains Lives, Not Junk « Woman Around Town
May 7th
4 tags
“There’s something moving about the premise that, if we look closely enough, our...”
– Locker 4173b: The Monkey : The New Yorker 
May 7th
4 tags
“…the NY Neo-Futurists prove again that their brand of theatre is resonant,...”
– Christine Schmidt New York Theater Review: The New York Neofuturists present Locker 4173B! reviewed by Christine Schmidt
May 6th
4 tags
Bug: F. T. Marinetti, futurist poet and... →
dumbassfils: The Futurist movement recognized that “men think, dream and act according to what they eat and drink” so cooking and eating needed to become subservient to the proper aesthetic experience that Futurism favored. Revolutionary in its expectations of overturning set patterns and expectations, some… “Spaghetti is no food for fighters”  Sad to see there is no mention...
May 5th
14 notes
4 tags
“A fascinating yet heart-wrenching story that will move you from laughter to...”
– Haytham Elhawary on Locker #4173b Theatre Is Easy | Reviews | Locker 4173b
May 5th
3 tags
May 4th
9 notes
3 tags
“Locker 4137B’s emotional punch sneaks up on the audience, prompting reflection...”
– Reviews Off Broadway Reviews Off Broadway: Go and Investigate Locker 4137B
May 4th
3 tags
Twitter plays, part CXII
It’s Twitter Plays CXII! This week’s assignment was to write a 1-tweet play that takes place on a MOUNTAIN. Here are your plays, starting with @sasa_s’s very excellent world premiere play “Falling: A Monologue.” @sasa_s: Joe: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooo oooooooooooo ooooooo ooooo oooo ooo ooo oooo o o 3 from @Iambalive: 1:This mountain is to high for me to scale! 2:That...
May 4th
4 tags
“…Locker 4173b proves to be a fascinating probe into the hidden meanings...”
– Dan Bacalzo Locker 4173b: Review on TheaterMania.com - 05/04/2011
May 4th
4 tags
Backstage reviews Locker No. 4173b →
“Christopher Borg and Joey Rizzolo reportedly spent six months sifting through the more than 1,500 items: “Junk to most…but to us evidence, treasure…artifacts,” they say in “Locker No. 4173b,” the intriguing, clever, and occasionally surprisingly moving play they have fashioned out of their endeavor.” - Jonathan Mandell
May 4th
4 tags
ListenJoey Rizzolo’s “Brownie...
May 3rd
2 tags
Quelle Bitch! The Backlash! Whiplash! Eyelash!
©2004 Desiree Burch [Wiping off her eyebrows with a large “faint” gesture] I should have been born a drag queen. [She draws them on again, higher] I should have been born desperate and fantastic. I should have come out kicking and screaming like Grace Slick, with red sequins pouring out from the placenta. [Applies glittery eye shadow] I should have been born a man in platform...
May 2nd
5 tags
Locker #4173b in the NY Times! →
Finding the Drama in What Life Has Left Behind - NYTimes.com Be forewarned, spoilers within. And a great song from Joey & Borg. Get your tickets!
May 1st
3 notes