News from the desk of Rachel Kauder Nalebuff
Hello and welcome to my irregular newsletter—my first in 28 years!
What is happening?
June 2, The Seed Eaters, La Ferme du Buisson, Paris. Emily Mast and I are on site rehearsing with local performers for The Seed Eaters, a deconstructed play made up of twelve scenes each around the theme of The End. One scene is about the end of the night, another is about the end of an illness, another is about the end of the world. Tickets are still available for 2 of our 3 performances.
July 1, New books from 3 Hole Press, Wendy's Subway, New York City. Please join us to celebrate the publication of two new plays, The Immeasurable Want of Light by Daaimah Mubashshir and Wheelchair by Will Arbery, out from 3 Hole Press, which I direct. Will's play is introduced by Bill Callahan and Daaimah's is accompanied by original artwork by Nell Painter.
It's been a big year for the Press: we received our first state funding from the New York State Council for the Arts, and both our 2017 titles, Brief Chronicle Books 6-8 by Alexander Borinsky and Is God Is by Aleshea Harris, received world premieres following publication. We published a special performance edition of Is God Is for the Soho Rep production. And last week, Aleshea won a playwriting Obie award! We are now completely sold out of her play and hustling to print more copies. Because what is sadder than someone who wants to read a book and cannot find it? Nothing!!! If you're into what's happening at 3 Hole, I encourage you to wrap our books in nice paper and give them to 3 good people in your life. And to support us through our Fractured Atlas.
August 17-25, Woe is Me, The Public Theater, New York City. My classmates Kate Kremer, Jerry Lieblich and April Ranger and I are all adapting artwork by Martin Ramirez into plays for our theses. My play, Woe is Me, is inspired by Ramirez' repeated patterns and studies the nature of repetition in the theater. I'm especially excited because I'm working together with composer Coleman Zurkowski and will be incorporating several approaches to fake blood. I am writing it like it is the last play I will ever write, though something tells me that is not going to be the case. Tickets and more info coming soon on my website.
Hope to see you this summer,
Rachel Here is me and Henri, a lighting designer at La Ferme du Buisson, testing how the shadows fall for The Seed Eaters. Only real life, thanks to months of careful planning and much luck, could be so odd.