tHeatre + FIlmTraining for actors, writers, directorsADULT FILM
“ADULT FILM appreciates mess, grown-up topics, ambiguity, bad behavior, the dark side...they surround themselves in an atmosphere of creativity and possibility.”
Adult Film x BKE Productions Presents:
Anton Chekhov'sRC: I’m not interested in the tired “crumbling aristocracy” line; I’m interested in love and sex. Lubov means love, and I think she’s a woman hurling herself after love, destroying everything in her path, including the orchard, doing it for love…
The Cherry Orchard
…it renders permeable boundaries not only between past and present, making the idea of anachronism irrelevant, but also between film and theater, spectator and cast, performance and non-performance spaces, and even genres, giving audiences a funny, sometimes surreal Chekhov by intensifying The Cherry Orchard's inherent tragicomedy.
These are intensely physical performances—involving complex blocking, song and dance sequences, gymnastic feats, simulated sex, jumping, screaming, laughing, and crying. At one emotional zenith, lamenting the earlier tragic loss of her son, Lubov practically waterboards herself with a bottle of champagne, which splashed at my feet. Is this really happening? I asked myself. Theater today lives and breathes; above all, it moves.
directed by Ryan Czerwonko+
translated by John Christopher Jones
September 18th - October 12th
Rutgers Presbyterian, 236 W 73rd St
produced by Jaclyn Bethany+
Co-Producer - Madeline Bernhard+
Stage Manager - Tad D’Agostino
Assistant Director - River Knight+
Tech and Video Design - Case and Porter+
Costume Designer - Madeline Rostmeyer
PR - Dan DeMello at DDPRTime goes by so slowly/life is a whirlwind…Lubov is lured from her hedonistic life in Paris back to her estate by the promise of innocence and purity that her Russian homeland holds. As she is distracted by her dysfunctional family, dreams and fantasies, the Cherry Orchard is in danger of being sold. This is the story of a woman hurling herself after love and destroying everything in her path. A fast paced sex comedy that finds itself not in an orchard or a nursery, but on a dancefloor - a ballroom of the mind.
Starring Megan Metrikin*+, Ryan Czerwonko*+, Simon Fortin*, Lauren Guglielmello+, Raina Soman+, Ethan Navarro+, Taylor Petracek+, Madeline Bernhard+, Josh Matteo+, Jay Geist, Matthew Zimmerman*, John Christopher Jones*+AF company member
*Equity Member appearing with permission of Actors’ Equity Association without benefit of an Equity contract in this Off-Off Broadway production.Working Classes
We are working class. We believe in work that is deeply, unabashedly, American. By that, we mean work that is singular, individuated, and full of size. Work that is unafraid of failure, that risks everything in order to get to something true, something real. Work that is lived in, sweaty, and sensual. Work that is mature, and messy, and cutting.
We believe in artists who are willing to put themselves on the line. Artists who can and will reveal the worst and best parts of themselves in equal measure, Who are interested in questions, not answers. Who aren’t afraid of being “unfinished”.
We are creating a home for like-minded people to share ideas, to train, and to perform. Our classes are affordable, our ticket prices are cheap, and our doors open to all who want to join us. the working class once had a seat at the grand table of American theatre and cinema, and it's time to take that seat back.
