Blessed Unrest

TDF presents

Performeteria

March 20 & 24, 2017

Blessed Unrest is honored to have been included in the first-ever Theatre Development Fund (TDF) PERFORMETERIA, an immersive theatre festival featuring works by “the most innovative Off-Off Broadway theatre and dance companies in New York City”. Audience members traveled through multiple levels of theatres, nooks and hidden venues within Baruch Performing Arts Center (BPAC) discovering unique, site-specific works from Off-Off Broadway’s best and boldest.

For more info, visit TDF.org.

New Ohio Theatre presents

A Christmas Carol

December 21 – 31, 2016

New Ohio Theatre
154 Christopher Street, New York City

Ebenezer Scrooge is about to get a wakeup call.

Blessed Unrest’s hit retelling of Dickens’s classic is back by popular demand. Six actors play thirty-seven characters in this raw, physical and darkly comic story of a man grappling with his life of isolation, and choosing to enact positive change in the troubled world around him.

In 1843, in lieu of publishing a political pamphlet entitled An Appeal to the People of England on behalf of the Poor Man’s Child, Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol. This adaptation returns to the story’s original intent as an examination of an unjust socioeconomic system that benefits a few at the top while the masses struggle to meet their basic needs. It shows the capacity of an individual to overcome fear, expand their perspective, and take action for others.

In November we brought Doruntine, our acclaimed bilingual collaboration with Teatri ODA from Prishtina, Kosova, to the Secondo Theaterfestival in Zurich, Switzerland. The festival jury awarded Doruntine first prize.

Inspired by the Albanian legend, Doruntine is a mythical tale of family loyalty, forbidden love, and the power of a promise that can never be broken. Doruntine has been loved by packed houses in four different countries, and we were thrilled to bring it to Western Europe for the first time.

Blessed Unrest joined the New Victory LabWorks program to develop our adaptation of The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen. As part of New Victory LabWorks we were given rehearsal space in the beautiful New 42nd Street Studios, a stipend for development expenses, professional development opportunities with New Victory visiting companies from around the world, and access to the feedback and support of the New Victory Artistic Programming staff.

The New Victory Theater, one of the nation’s leading presenters of theatre for family audiences, established New Victory LabWorks to lead to a body of work that will expand and enrich the quality of performing arts made in the USA for kids and their families. We’re proud to have been welcomed into this incredible program, bringing our physical theatre aesthetic to the peculiar lands and wild creatures encountered by the courageous heroine at the heart of The Snow Queen.