THIS IS THE PLACE OF PARTING

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World Premiere slated for this September 2008!

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VAMPING

An original solo show performed by Kali Quinn, directed by Jonathan Maloney and assisted by Daniel Burmester, is a dynamic multimedia theatre piece that explores the struggles of senile dementia. It is seen through the eyes of Julia, an elderly women confined to a nursing home in her later years, and the world that surrounds her, both in reality and her fading mind.

VAMPING History- Vamping premiered Off-Off Broadway as a main attraction of HERE Art Center’s 2006 American Living Room Festival. It has also played in terraNOVA’s soloNOVA Festival at PS122, as part of the inaugural Dialogue ONE festival at Williams College, along with performances at the University of Rochester and Luminz Performing Arts Studio in Brattleboro, Vermont. Excerpts of the piece have been shown at the Manhattan Theater Source, for members of the Network of Ensemble Theaters in Maine, and at The Putney School. From there Vamping has continued to tour to packed houses and rave reviews throughout the Northeast of America.

 

VAMPING May 2008- Just closed its fantastic run at the Road Less Traveled Theater located in Downtown Buffalo, NY. GUTWorks graciously thanks Buffalo and all who came out to see the show, we could not have had a better and more successful run! We could not have done it without you!

“This performance took me by my gut… It's not only about Alzheimer's. It's about growing old, giving up your house, your friends, your life as you knew it. Thank you for the most emotional performance I've ever felt.”~ Mark Panfil of Hamburg NY   "Quite compelling!” ~ Buffalo News   "Through ingeniously creative use of a wheel chair and multimedia, Kali Quinn revives the memories of a woman with Alzheimer’s and gives hope that all might not be completely lost through her touching performance." ~ James Carter, Founding Artistic Director, terraNOVA Collective and soloNOVA Festival

VAMPING Continues- GUTWorks will continue its' tour of Vamping this year and beyond, please check back soon, for Vamping will be coming to theater near you!

“Kali Quinn is a talented, immensely watchable, and vibrant performer. ‘VAMPING’ is a deeply personal and impressively honest piece of theatre that effectively captures, with theatrical grace and wit, the universality of love and loss.” ~ Nigel Maister, Artistic Director, Todd International Theatre Program, University of Rochester   "The physicality is both astonishing and absolutely truthful -- a rare accomplishment." ~ Cal Pritner, Founding Artistic Director, Illinois Shakespeare Festival

 

VAMPING for you - Vamping is available to tour to your venue or school! GUTWorks also provides educational and creative workshops along side performances. Please download the Vamping press release and email or contact us for more information!

 

VAMPING Media -

Watch ALL THAT MATTERS TV interview with the Vamping team!

Listen to WBFO Radio Interview in Buffalo, NY with Kali!

Read a review of Vamping in the Bershire Review for the Arts!

Watch an excerpt of the performance! 

More dates to follow- please check back soon. . .

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NO MAN'S ISLAND

During a fantastic month run in May 2007, GUTWorks performed the American Premiere of NO MAN’S ISLAND(starring Daniel Burmester and Jonathan Maloney, and directed by Kali Quinn). An astonishing play by renowned Australian playwright Ross Mueller at HERE Arts Center in NY,NY. Mueller is one of Australia’s most gifted new writers, having been a long time affiliate of the Melbourne Theatre Company and a recent representative at the International Residency of the Royal Court Theatre in London, he was extremely excited to bring this updated version of NO MAN’S ISLAND to the United States. Mueller’s new script toiled with every man’s modern struggle for survival, but what happens when they are forced into a pressure cooker of a world where apocalypse always looms and freedom is a dying hope?

This provocative play plies the emotive depths of two haplessly damaged souls. With the two locked in the isolation of a cell together and their crimes and sentences unknown, we plunge to the core of their confusion, need, and boiling loneliness. Tim and Robbie may have come to prison from desperate parts of the outback, at different times and for separate felonies, but now their lives are indefinitely converging into one as they become striking reflections of each other.

 

PRESS

“Maloney and Burmester thrive in the unstable connection, allowing for a truthful creation of kinship… through each other’s volatility, hope forms.”
            ~Downtown Express, NYC

 

	“The two leads have undeniable rapport.”             ~ Backstage
Jonathan Maloney		Daniel Burmester

 

“Quinn, Burmester, and Maloney have brought to life a powerful new piece that deserves a longer run and as much attention as it can grab.” Article
    ~ Josh Sherman, nytheatre.com

 

PHOTO SHOOT

Famed photographer Jeffrey Weiss uses GUTWorks’ No Mans Island for his newest project: STAGED.

 

THE PRODUCTION TEAM

Directed by: Kali Quinn

Set by: Joseph Eagan

Lights by: Vincent Vigilante

Sound by: Joe Williamson

Costumes by: Olga Mill

Featuring: Daniel Burmester and Jonathan Maloney

Please check back soon for more information regarding No Mans Island and other upcoming productions. . .

 

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