MFb Residencies 2012

Magic Futurebox is excited to announce our residencies for the 2012 season! Click the titles for more information on each show.

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BELOW And BEYOND
May 9th @ 8:00 pm
Tickets: $12

A new play about natural gas extraction, urban camouflage, immortal jellyfish, and an underground creek-turned-sewer. Inspired by the long-submerged Mill Creek of West Philadelphia, as well as current debate about fracking in Pennsylvania, this original play explores the complications of what lies beneath our feet. Using puppets, pulleys, movement, maps, and the imagination, the performance examines the intricacies of extraction and recognizes a waterway that continues to resurface. Tree house, houseboat and bunker dwellers unite amidst an invasion of urban water buffalo. 

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Letter to My Father by Franz Kafka 

May 10th - 13th, 18th - 20th, 25th - 27th @ 7:00 pm
May 12th & 26th @ 2:00 pm
Tickets: $15.00 available here

In 1919, an ailing Franz Kafka writes a letter to his father. In it he puts his anger, his fear, his guilt, his loneliness, his ingratitude, his debt, his despair, his joy, his pride, his confusion, his laughter, his hate, his memories, his shame, his tears, his disgust at everything his father represents and his profound hope that he might one day measure up to such a remarkable man. The letter was never delivered -- that is, until now.

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4:48 Psychosis
May 10th - 13th, 18th - 20th, 25th - 27th @ 8:30 pm
May 12th & 26th @ 3:30 pm
Tickets: $15.00 available here

 

A career of horrible-gentle and violent-funny work comes to a close with Sarah Kane's magnum opus, written on the eve of her tragic suicide. In it she tells the inner drama of a mind at the point of combustion. In her hospital room she becomes patient, disease and doctor. She is the Victim of unending cruelties, and her pain knows no limit.  She is the Perpetrator of every violence and delivers each blow with a smile. She is the Bystander to her own suffering, deaf to her own shrill screams. At the edge of her death, Sarah Kane teaches us what it means to be alive.

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Demonology
June 8th - 24th, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday @ 8:00 pm
Tickets: $15.00

AntiMatter Collective transform Magic Futurebox into a demonic playground and harness the theatrical arts in service of the Dark Powers. A roving hour-long experience comprised of two short plays, Demonology is theater from Hell.

The Dreams in the Witch House adapted from a 1932 H.P. Lovecraft novella, is the story of a fragile-minded grad student of quantum physics and folklore, consumed by his increasingly vivid nightmares, told through a unique blend of live action and shadow-puppetry.

sixsixsix is a contemporary remapping of Faust, combining Marlowe’s text, Czech marionette theater, and Jan Svankmejer’s 1994 film. Part revenge tragedy, part diabolically comic black ritual, sixsixsix is a taut, menacing, metaphysical thriller. 

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The Orpheus Variations
October 19th - 21st and October 26th - 28th
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday @ 8:00 pm
Tickets: $30.00

The Orpheus Variations is a live film reimagining of the classic myth as the tale of a transcendent sound-maker struck mute by the suicide of his lover. In a desperate attempt to reconstruct the decaying past, the sound-maker obsessively fills thousands of glass jars with single objects – keepsakes – each endowed with a singular memory of his beloved. Tickets include attendance at the after-performance party each evening. 

Photo Ops -- Free and Cheap Photo Services for Artists

Our dear friend, SVA professor Joe Sinnott is looking for a live performance his photography students can shoot the evening of December 7th. If you have a dress rehearsal, photo call, or preview you'd like documented (after 6:00 pm), shoot us an email at info@magicfuturebox.com and we'll hook you up! 

Also, some of our favorite photographers, David Reyes and Michael Amoroso are offering $100 discounts on headshot sessions to Magic Futurebox artists. Just name drop that you've worked with us before when you contact them and they'll hook you up! 

Building a Better Box: First Things First

A few months ago, we signed a full year lease with Industry City, and with that, it was time to start thinking big... 20,000 sq. ft. big! 

Yesterday, we officially launched our capital campaign to Build a Better Box by asking you to adopt a piece of MFb for just $10 / square foot. We want to keep you totally up to date on what our plans are as money comes in and we start using it, so we'll be putting these updates up regularly and sharing them with you. 

For those who have been to Magic Futurebox since we moved into our fantastic warehouse space in June, you know that MFb is full of possibilities... But those opportunities also come with some restrictions, and one of the biggest is that privacy is at a premium in an open warehouse space. We want to be able to balance the flexibility and the vastness of this space for large scale arts events and installation theater and all kinds of productions that need to utilize the unique size of Magic Futurebox, while still being able to separate parts of it from the whole for rehearsals and workshops. 

After talking to our fantastic contractor, Steve Spektor, he recommended we build a series of modular walls on wheels that would allow us to separate the space in any way we want, and open it back up as needed. He sent us a great drawing and we're chomping at the bit to start building, but we need $9,580 more to complete this leg of the build out project. 

If you can give us a tax deductible donation, please visit our donations page at Fractured Atlas (or consider making a monthly pledge). 

However, if you don't have money, we're looking for the following materials to be donated and we'll credit you as if you donated cash. Maybe you have some of these lying around: 

• 1/2" x 4' x 8' plywood

• Lots of 2' x 4's

• 2" locking heavy duty casters 

• White, high gloss latex paint 

• 2" thick Thermafiber insulation

• Cinder blocks 

If you've got any of these items and you're looking to donate them to a good cause, please reply in the comments or shoot us an email at info@magicfuturebox.com. We can't wait to start on this project ASAP and with your help, we will make it happen!