After thesis-year student Sid Branca’s performance in the Infilitration series (a collaboration between the Neo-Futurists and Salonathon), she was invited by Neo-Futurist Noelle Krimm to create a piece for the 2014 iteration of Alice.
Alice is an ambulatory, multi-disciplinary theatrical experience. The audience, traveling in groups of 15, follows a white rabbit to various locations throughout the Andersonville neighborhood. Ducking into storerooms and back patios, through bookstores and taverns and galleries, the audience IS Alice and the Andersonville neighborhood becomes a wonderland. Chapters of the book are divided amongst Chicago fringe theater companies, visual and film artists and performed in the various locations throughout the neighborhood. It was first developed by Noelle Krimm at the Neo-Futurarium in 2004.
The section of the show inspired by Chapter 11 (the beginning of the “who stole the tarts” trial) is divvied up between Branca, Ian Belknap, and Josh Zagoren. Branca wrote a piece performed by herself and Amanda Fink, a close friend and fellow company member at First Floor Theater. From a New City review:
“A headier but equally captivating highlight is the eleventh chapter from Sid Branca & Amanda Fink, staged in a pet supply shop, wherein the trial over the tarts becomes a sort of nonsensical polemic attack on meaning and ownership while revealing much truth through almost aggressive wordplay.”
The show runs Saturdays and Sundays with tours starting at 1:00pm and leaving every 15 minutes until 2:00pm, rain or shine. Branca will be performing on October 11 and October 18.
Performance information, including location and tickets: http://www.upendedproductions.com/
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1482569858682169/
The show includes original work by The Neo-Futurists, Striding Lion Performance Group, The Whiskey Rebellion Theatre, ShowParty, Sophisticated Cornbread, David Kodeski, Corrbette Pasko, Emmy Bean, Ian Belknap, Sid Branca, Josh Zagoren, Greg Allen, John Gregorio, Bilal Dardai, Dina Walters, Logan Kibens, John Randle and many more.
