The Process Series

About the Process Series

 

The Process Series provides a positive atmosphere at UNC-Chapel Hill for artists who are in the throes of creating important new works and in so doing illuminate the creative process for students and the community. In a continuing effort to widen the discourse and share the experiences more broadly, all of events are free and open to the public.

 

Audiences are encouraged to stay after the performances for a discussion and participate in a dialogue with the creators as a way to assist in the development of the new work.

 

The Process Series was founded by Joseph Megel, an instructor in UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Communication Studies, who has spent the last 20 years focusing on the direction and development of new works for theatre, film and video.  The Process Series is dedicated to the development of new and significant works in the performing arts and features professionally mounted developmental performances of new works in progress. The mission of the series is to illuminate the ways in which artistic ideas take form, to follow artists and performers as they explore and discover and to examine the unique creative process for each artist presented. The series is a program of Carolina Performing Arts and co-sponsored by the Department of Communication Studies.

 

Process series contact: Joseph Megel, (919) 843-7067, megel@email.unc.edu or cpaengagement@unc.edu

Process Series

 
Schedule of Performances

 

Painting the Town: A Rock 'n' Roll Life and the Souls of Four Great American Cities

By Django Haskins

8 PM, January 20 and 21

Gerrard Hall 

Django Haskins writes, sings and performs in a work based on his new book about traveling in a band and songs based on those experiences. Haskins, a solo performer and the lead singer and songwriter of Durham/Chapel Hill-based band, The Old Ceremony,  presents his experiences performing in and traveling to New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Atlanta.

 

Scar Tissue and Thisability

By Gabriel Rivas Gomez

7:30 PM, February 29 and March 1

Kennan Theatre in the Center for Dramatic Art

These are two new short plays by Gabriel Rivas Gomez with guest director Jorge Huerta. Gomez has been called a fresh, young theatrical voice with his plays offering an unflinching look at the epic nature of some painful relationships. Scar Tissue deals with hearts in disrepair both literally and figuratively. Thisability examines strength of mind and weakness of the body. Sponsored by the Teatro Latina/o Series.

 

Harvesting Pomegranate Dreams–a puppet dream play

By Tori Ralston and the Theater of Performing Objects

8 PM, March 16 and 17

Historic Playmakers Theatre

A cast of puppet dreamers emerge from within a veil and twist, turn and blow their way through ancient wisdoms on mothering, war, migration, birth and death. Based in Carrboro, NC and founded by Ralston, Theater of Performing Objects is a puppetry and object theater company with a specialization in marionettes, shadow puppets, Bunraku and found object puppets.  

 

Theatrical Translation as Creative Process: A Conference/Festival

April 12-15

Gerrard Hall and various locations

In collaboration with Duke University’s Performance and Embodied Research Colloquium and UNC’s Center for Dramatic Art, The Process Series will present four staged readings of new translations with the translators in attendance. The plays include:

Apocalypse Tomorrow by Ricardo Monti, of Argentina, translated by Jean Graham-Jones;

The Ballad of the Pine Tree Killers by Rebecca Kricheldorf, of Germany, translated by Neil Blackadder;

Vengeance Can Wait by Yukiko Motoya, of Japan, translated and adapted by Kyoko Yoshida and Andy Bragen;

Huddersfield by Uglijisa Stilnac, of Serbia, translated and adapted by Caridad Svich  

More information about the conference can be found online at sites.duke.edu/perc/translationconference/

Who Do You Think You Are

SITI Company

7:30 PM, May 18

Frey Rehearsal Hall, Center for Dramatic Art

             

As part of their residency with PlayMakers Repertory Theater, SITI Company presents Who Do You Think You Are, a work in progress that is inspired by the newest breakthoughs in neuroscience, particularly the discoveries in neuroplasticity. This smartly conceived theatrical exploration of the principles of brain science uses the structure and aesthetics of the Rainer Werner Fassbinder film Katzelmacher as a jumping-off point to creat a society that is complex, repressed and verging on domestic violence. SITI and Playmakers Repertory Company will present a public showing of Who Do You Think You Are, which has grown out of conversations between Anne Bogart, the founder of SITI Company, and UNC faculty member R. Grant Steen in 2007. Free and open to the public, however space is limited. To reserve seats email PRCresidencies@gmail.com.

 

 

Rehearsals for Poppa, God Bless by Jared Mezzocchi, at Historic Playmakers Theater, Dec. 2 & 3, 2011. Photo by Lauren McCayPoppaLCM025.jpg