Performances are at 8pm unless specified
The Implication of Sex/De-Composition
Written and Directed by Daniel Fisher Performances: Thursday - Sunday, February 22-24 |
Woman Hollering Creek
Original Story by Sandra Cisneros Adapted and Directed by Amanda Ceballos Performances: Thursday - Sunday, March 7-10 |
Staged Reading Series
Friday, February 15th Just Home for Summer by Helen Everbach Friday, March 1st The Storms by Emmet Storms Friday, March 15th The Playboy of the Golden West by Isabel Cruz |
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About the Productions
Main Productions
The Implication of Sex/De-Composition
Thursday - Sunday, February 22-24
Two physicalized performance art pieces by Daniel Fisher.The Implication of Sex is about media representations of sex from, following a couple absurdly and exaggeratedly acting out tropes of sex from film and television. Actors must be comfortable with performing onstage romantic intimacy and using sexually explicit language. De-Composition revolves around the accumulation of organic and synthetic food waste and the heightening a consciousness of those byproducts taken for granted. Actors must be comfortable physically interacting with soil and food waste.
Woman Hollering Creek
Thursday - Sunday, March 7-10
Adapted to the stage by Amanda Ceballos. Original short story written by Sandra Cisneros.
Woman Hollering Creek tells the story of Cleófilas, a young girl raised in a small town in Mexico. Having no mother or sisters, she learns about "womanhood" from telenovelas like Tú O Nadie, fantasizing about a life full of passion, romance, and happily ever after. When Juan Pedro proposes, she is eager to begin her life with him in the United States. When her reality becomes something else entirely, Cleófilas is forced to reconsider everything she thought she knew.
One Nighters (in chronological order)
The Ghostlight Project
Saturday, January 19th @ 4:30pm
Join Barnstorm in an open dialogue about theater and ways we support one another within the theater community. Bring a light source for the 5:30 lighting of the ghostlight.
24 Hour Theatre
Sunday, January 27th
In this production, a group of Barnstormers will be conceiving, writing, directing, staging, designing, creating, and building a performance all in 24 hours. Starting at 7:00pm the Saturday night before, the team will work non-stop until an hour before curtain creating a show just in time for house to open. Stay tuned for possible live-streaming of the creative process!
Femmeprov
Saturday, February 2nd & 16th
Femmeprov is an inclusive environment created by the femmes on Humor Force Five and Someone Always Dies. We sought to create a safe space for individuals to explore improv and discuss matters of oppression we have faced as women, femmes, and gender nonconforming folks. For too long, comedy has been dominated and dictated by straight, white, cisgender men, but we seek to change that. The discussion around femmes in comedy is no longer, "Are femmes funny?" (because we all know we are), but rather how can we help each other as femmes excel and stay safe in male dominated spaces. The answer is by creating events such as this one, and supporting each other. We will take space and make space for each other. We are funny and powerful, gosh darn it, and we won't let a man stop us from expressing our creativity!
SRS: Just Home for Summer
Friday, February 15th
A new play by Helen Everbach. Part of the Staged Reading Series.
Confident, if self-absorbed, college student Jules is forced to move back home for the summer after his graduate student boyfriend kicks him out of their shared apartment. Jules is expecting the summer to be terrible, stuck in the small town in Iowa where he grew up, but things start to look up when he meets Marty, a recently out of the closet high schooler with whom Jules shares an inexplicable attraction. Using kink as a way to overcome awkwardness, sexual inexperience, and their age difference, this play tries to look honestly at queer sex, vulnerability and intimacy, and the things that keep us apart even when we're drawn together.
SRS: The Storms
Friday, March 1st
A new play by Emmet Storms. Part of the Staged Reading Series.
The play follows the last week of a girl's life from the perspective of her brother.
Secret Family
Saturday, March 2nd
SRS: The Playboy of the Golden West
Friday, March 15th
A new play by Isabel Cruz. Part of the Staged Reading Series.
An adaptation of the Irish classic, The Playboy of the Western World, by John M. Synge, set in 19th century Monterey County. A small village receives a stranger, Christopher “Christy” Mahon, who claims to be on the run after killing his foreman. He is offered shelter at the cantina and inn owned by the father of Margarita Reynoso. Intrigue, romantic rivalries, and hilarity ensue, but is Christopher all he claims to be?
Musical Theater Scenes
Saturday, March 16th
7pm and 9pm performances
Shebam
Sunday, March 17th
The Implication of Sex/De-Composition
Thursday - Sunday, February 22-24
Two physicalized performance art pieces by Daniel Fisher.The Implication of Sex is about media representations of sex from, following a couple absurdly and exaggeratedly acting out tropes of sex from film and television. Actors must be comfortable with performing onstage romantic intimacy and using sexually explicit language. De-Composition revolves around the accumulation of organic and synthetic food waste and the heightening a consciousness of those byproducts taken for granted. Actors must be comfortable physically interacting with soil and food waste.
Woman Hollering Creek
Thursday - Sunday, March 7-10
Adapted to the stage by Amanda Ceballos. Original short story written by Sandra Cisneros.
Woman Hollering Creek tells the story of Cleófilas, a young girl raised in a small town in Mexico. Having no mother or sisters, she learns about "womanhood" from telenovelas like Tú O Nadie, fantasizing about a life full of passion, romance, and happily ever after. When Juan Pedro proposes, she is eager to begin her life with him in the United States. When her reality becomes something else entirely, Cleófilas is forced to reconsider everything she thought she knew.
One Nighters (in chronological order)
The Ghostlight Project
Saturday, January 19th @ 4:30pm
Join Barnstorm in an open dialogue about theater and ways we support one another within the theater community. Bring a light source for the 5:30 lighting of the ghostlight.
24 Hour Theatre
Sunday, January 27th
In this production, a group of Barnstormers will be conceiving, writing, directing, staging, designing, creating, and building a performance all in 24 hours. Starting at 7:00pm the Saturday night before, the team will work non-stop until an hour before curtain creating a show just in time for house to open. Stay tuned for possible live-streaming of the creative process!
Femmeprov
Saturday, February 2nd & 16th
Femmeprov is an inclusive environment created by the femmes on Humor Force Five and Someone Always Dies. We sought to create a safe space for individuals to explore improv and discuss matters of oppression we have faced as women, femmes, and gender nonconforming folks. For too long, comedy has been dominated and dictated by straight, white, cisgender men, but we seek to change that. The discussion around femmes in comedy is no longer, "Are femmes funny?" (because we all know we are), but rather how can we help each other as femmes excel and stay safe in male dominated spaces. The answer is by creating events such as this one, and supporting each other. We will take space and make space for each other. We are funny and powerful, gosh darn it, and we won't let a man stop us from expressing our creativity!
SRS: Just Home for Summer
Friday, February 15th
A new play by Helen Everbach. Part of the Staged Reading Series.
Confident, if self-absorbed, college student Jules is forced to move back home for the summer after his graduate student boyfriend kicks him out of their shared apartment. Jules is expecting the summer to be terrible, stuck in the small town in Iowa where he grew up, but things start to look up when he meets Marty, a recently out of the closet high schooler with whom Jules shares an inexplicable attraction. Using kink as a way to overcome awkwardness, sexual inexperience, and their age difference, this play tries to look honestly at queer sex, vulnerability and intimacy, and the things that keep us apart even when we're drawn together.
SRS: The Storms
Friday, March 1st
A new play by Emmet Storms. Part of the Staged Reading Series.
The play follows the last week of a girl's life from the perspective of her brother.
Secret Family
Saturday, March 2nd
SRS: The Playboy of the Golden West
Friday, March 15th
A new play by Isabel Cruz. Part of the Staged Reading Series.
An adaptation of the Irish classic, The Playboy of the Western World, by John M. Synge, set in 19th century Monterey County. A small village receives a stranger, Christopher “Christy” Mahon, who claims to be on the run after killing his foreman. He is offered shelter at the cantina and inn owned by the father of Margarita Reynoso. Intrigue, romantic rivalries, and hilarity ensue, but is Christopher all he claims to be?
Musical Theater Scenes
Saturday, March 16th
7pm and 9pm performances
Shebam
Sunday, March 17th