Azzizz Theatre's Plays
Last modified May 22, 2003
We got our name, Azzizz, from our desire to make theatre that showed life “az” it “iz”
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Azzizz Theatre's PlaysLast modified May 22, 2003 |
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We got our name, Azzizz, from our desire to make theatre that showed life “az” it “iz” |
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Our Virginity Do you remember losing your cherry? NYC's Azzizz Theatre is back to its naughty self with their new movement theatre comedy. It's a voyeuristic delight but don't get caught as you peek into one hotel room over four decades. Come witness couple's from the 50's to 80's making that awkward journey out of innocence. A wild mix of dance, comedy and insatiable characters. Original music by David Cloyd. Photo by Anthony Rodriguez |
| FourPlay Four seasons. Four personal ads. Four blind dates. Are you ready for siome FourPlay? Looking for love? How about a discreet encounter? Join Cindy as she searchs for both in the pages of the personal ads. A wild mix of dance, comedy and controversy. Oringinal music by John Akin, Jr. blends Bluegrass strings, Latin horns and African drums. Reviews for this Play |
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| Sexual Healing A humorously dysfunctional couple visits a sex therapist to save their marriage. A narcoleptic husband and his passionately pretentious hypochondriac wife dine on a smorgasbord of psychotherapy techniques served up by their doctor, a hybrid of Richard Simons and Mr. Rogers. Freud will be turning over in his grave. It's a comical search for sensuality after the loss of sexuality. Sexual Healing will tickle your funny bone and keep you thinking with a fusion of acting, movement, dance and absurd psycho-drama/comedy. The play is set to the music of the Scottish band Tartan Amoebas who like Azzizz blends styles into one harmonious sound using funk, folk, Celtic, Latin, classic African and jazz into a world beat to keep your toes tapping. Reviews for this Play   |
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Shaft Buttons pushed. Doors close. Stuck. Three quirky strangers trapped in an elevator. Awkward, humorous, sometimes sexy fantasies strip away pretense and expose vulnerability. In the growing heat of the lift each character goes through personal metamorphosis’ as personas and clothing slip away revealing their inner selves... and sometimes more! Told with movement and sparse dialogue (English and Spanish) the characters struggle to communicate. The story is divided between the reality inside the elevator and the fantasies in the minds of the three strange strangers. The fantasies are in the form of dances set to an original score by John Akins, Jr. Reviews for this Play
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Dog's Tail Fun for children of all ages, A Dog's Tale is the delightful story of one dog's life, told with music, movement and masks. This heart-warming folk opera features Bernie the Wonderdog & his best friend Bob. As Bernie grows from "puppyhood" to "dog-dom," he stumbles into one adventure after another. Along the way he is befriended by Roving Rover, the stray junkyard dog. They fall into the hands of the dogcatcher and land in the pound. There Bernie meets an old houndog named Leon Milkbone, who teaches him the bittersweet lesson of what it means to be man's best friend. |
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Flywheel is a timeless tale of modern life, following the journey of a ragtag troupe traveling on a manpowered conveyor belt to nowhere. Set in a surreal landscape of the mind's eye, this play asks the age-old questions "Who are we?," "Where are we going?," and "How did we get here?." The conveyor belt is not only the prison of this Becket-like purgatory, but it's creaking and groaning are a testament to the fact that it too is a prisoner along with the defeatist, the schizophrenic and the psychotic that ride on its back. |
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Partners is a light-hearted look at the struggle to find love without words. The complexities of human mating rituals fling wide the doors of humor whether it's mastering the art of flirting or fighting. The one-act movement theatre play focuses on the difficulties we all seem to have in communicating openly and honestly with those we love or want to love. The characters find themselves trapped in love triangles, squares and hexagons, as they attempt the seemingly impossible task of living in peace with the one they love. Reviews for this play |
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Human Rituals an assemblage in four parts. Dance, mime, and movement theatre provide the vocabulary for this exploration of human entanglements. Male posturing, solitary existence, and human courtship rituals are the sources for light-hearted amuse- ment, insight, and wry commentary. Unconstrained by spoken words, Human Rituals is free to poke fun at us all and to reach into all of our hearts, without concern for cultural or language barriers. Included are Duo for Testosterone and Push (by choreographer Doug Elkins), Hello?, Alone & Silent Partners. Reviews for this play |
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Addictions is a glimpse into the dark world of dependencies. Harsh flashes between reality and a nightmare delve into the delusions that create addiction. Witness the fear and depression, the loneliness and isolation, through one man's frantic groping for specks of sanity in a world on the brink of self-destruction. A patchwork quilt of self reflections stitched together with monologues, movement and poetry. Although some may be offended by the use of strong language and the message that just saying "No" is not enough, this montage of stark images violently explodes on the stage to mirror the realities of addiction. |
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Unknown Sleep At 23 Karen had her whole life ahead of her. The accident left her alone and confined to a wheelchair, her memory shattered. This uplifting story is based on the real life of Karen Searcy, who suffered severe brain damage in an automobile accident. Karen is played by two actresses simultaneously. One appears as we would see Karen physically, confined to a wheelchair and barely able to communicate; the other is her inner self. Together they fight a battle against doctors who tell her she will never walk again and to overcome the memories of a violation no one will believe. |
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| Heaven and Hell Not for the faint of heart this is a powerful portrayal of the familiar battle of good and evil. The story spans 25 years in the life of a woman who is kidnapped, raped and tortured. She is able to over power and kill her captor only to loose her sanity. The plot thickens when she later discovers that she is carrying his child. She is able to raise her daughter through love and compassion in spite of her traumatic beginnings. The daughter grows up to live her life as a well adjusted lesbian with a warm caring lover. The two lovers try to care for the aging mother until their lives are once again set into turmoil by an intruder that kills the daughter as she tries to save her lover. When the intruder returns later to kill the lover she instead imprisons him and begins to repeat the cycle of torture lived by the mother years earlier. Just as the lover prepares to kill the intruder the dead daughter returns. A number of surprise twists tie the whole story together. |
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