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LAByrinth Theater Company and L.A.’s Elephant Theatre Company Announce Bi-Coastal Partnership
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We’re long since past the days of an East Coast vs. West Coast (unless we’re talking about food), so it only makes sense that NY’s LAByrinth Theater Company has teamed with L.A.’s Elephant Theatre Company, beginning in November when the Elephant presents Stephen Adly Guirgis’ The Little Flower of East Orange, a play that premiered at LAByrinth in 2008. Concurrently, in L.A., LAByrinth will present the world premiere of Carlo Alban’s one-man show, Intringulis. The partnership also includes, according to a press release, “ensemble members from both companies working closely together, participating in writing workshops, play readings and master classes.”
The two companies were introduced to each other in 2006, when the Elephant’s artistic director, David Fofi, directed the West Coast premiere of In Arabia We’d All Be Kings.
Below is more information on the two upcoming performances:
Intringulis
Novelist, sniper, television personality, delinquent youth. Window washer, tourist, Beelzebub, idealist youth. Vigilante, rock star wannabe, minuteman, apolitical youth. Illegal immigrant. These are the people in your neighborhood. Carlo Alban will inhabit them all, taking the stage in this solo piece. At the heart of the play is the story of Carlo’s family and their move from Ecuador to the United States when Carlo was seven—leaving behind four of his older siblings—and their subsequent economic, legal and social battles. Interspersed are performances of 1960s Latin American protest songs, which speak of the political struggles and the hope for social change that have inspired artists around the world for decades.
The Little Flower of East Orange
An inter-generational ghost story set in The Bronx at a charity hospital, that receives its first production outside of NY.