Banished? productions explained

banished? productions
Artisticdirector:Carmen C. Wong
Formed:2005
Location:Washington, D.C.
Homepage:http://www.banishedproductions.org/
Genre:Avant-pop theatre

banished? productions is an avant-pop performance company based in Washington, D.C., that combines mass media with audience immersion in productions that play with text and form. The company's best selling performance piece was A Tactile Dinner.

History

banished? productions was founded in 2005 by a group of artists in Washington, D.C. Led by Carmen C. Wong, their first production was a one-night staged reading of Adam de la Halle's Greenwood Follies & Other Old French Plays, funded with a grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. With help from a grant by the Embassy of Spain in Washington, they were then able to stage their first full production, Desire Caught by the Tail, a surreal and rarely produced play by Pablo Picasso, as part of the inaugural Capital Fringe Festival in 2006.[1] [2]

Other critically acclaimed works include a production of Charles Mee's post-modern play bobrauschenbergamerica[3] and a co-production premier of My Comic Valentine, a dramatization of 1950s romance comics.[4] banished? productions has contributed art installations to local venues and has produced an original audio walk about DC's Columbia Heights and Mount Pleasant neighborhoods called Walk with Me.

A Tactile Dinner

The company's best selling play A Tactile Dinner, debuted at the Capital Fringe Festival in 2009. This play was inspired by The Futurist Cookbook, written in 1932 by the founder of the Italian Futurism art movement Filippo Marinetti.[5] Patrons were "exposed to a banquet of both the palate and the mind", Futurist meals that included "aerofood infused with irony, cast-selected dinner jackets, and an iconoclastic rant against the evils of pasta".[6] [7] [8] In 2011 their Tactile Dinner Car combined Futurist gastronomy with the resurgence of urban food truck culture. In this "crazy sociological experiment playing by its own rules" that is "best enjoyed with an adventurous palate and a thorough appreciation for the ridiculous", the theatergoers and bystanders ordered surreal concoctions from a futurist food car reminiscent of designs by Buckminster Fuller[9] [10] [11]

Production history

Notes and References

  1. News: 'Desire': How Picasso Liberated Paris . Pamela Squires . The Washington Post . July 22, 2006 . December 12, 2012.
  2. Web site: Home . banishedproductions.org.
  3. News: Bounces on the Festival Fairway . Nelson Pressley . The Washington Post . July 23, 2007 . December 12, 2012.
  4. News: Romance Ripped from the Comics . https://archive.today/20120918212300/http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/profile/my-comic-valentine-a-comic-book-for-the-stage,1155298.html . dead . September 18, 2012 . Raymond M. Lane . The Washington Post . February 6, 2009 . December 12, 2012.
  5. F. T. Marinetti, Futurist Cookbook, reprint ed., Chronicle Books; 1991
  6. News: A Tactile Dinner: Whimsicality To Go . Peter Marks . The Washington Post . July 14, 2009 . December 12, 2012.
  7. http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/07/13/a-tactile-dinner/ "A Tactile Dinner", Tim Treanor, DC Theater Scene, July 13, 2009
  8. http://www.tablematters.com/index.php/plate/cu/cufuture/ Tony Perrottet, "The Futurist Cookbook", Table Matters, 2010
  9. http://www.welovedc.com/2011/07/09/fringe-2011-tactile-dinner-car/ "Tactile Dinner Cart", Jenn Larsen, DC Theater Scene, July 9, 2011
  10. http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/news/artnetnews/the-futurist-cookbook.asp "Futurism for Foodies", ArtNet, August 12, 2011
  11. News: Fringe Festival 2011: 'Tactile Dinner Car' . https://archive.today/20120918075759/http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/performing-arts/tactile-dinner-car,1209849/critic-review.html%23reviewNum1 . dead . September 18, 2012 . Fiona Zublin . The Washington Post . July 8, 2011 . December 12, 2012.

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