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PIDGIN PALACE ARTS & KEVIN BLACK PRESENT
Hamlet: Fine Revolution
March 15 - 19, 2022 at 7:30pm |
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Kevin Black presents a live, multimedia adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet at Pidgin Palace Arts, the Brink Foundation's new art gallery and headquarters in Tucson, Arizona.
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Hamlet: Fine Revolution is an electrifying remix of Shakespeare’s Hamlet as a modern, 4th Industrial Revolution tragedy. Set in a fictional Denmark dominated by artificial intelligence systems, the play is an embodied experience — the audience is literally in the midst of the action, in a mediated, light-and-sound-scaped theatre space, as the story unfolds around them. Social, political, and hyper theatrical, the project is an interrogation of our wired lives: connected or isolated, united or polarized.
Kevin Black, Nikki Crawford, David Andrew MacDonald, Betsy Kruse Craig, and Harold Dixon will lead a professional cast in this modern retelling of Shakespeare's best-known play.
The run is one week only: 5 performances, and seats are extremely limited. Tickets are $40 General, $20 Student/Seniors https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hamlet-fine-revolution-tickets-275795069477 Hamlet: Fine Revolution contains mature content and language. |
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Hamlet: Fine Revolution has received funding support from the University of Arizona's College of Fine Arts and through a UA Research, Innovation and Impact Production Grant. |
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Mandatory Safety Practices and Procedures All visitors to Pidgin Palace Arts will need to show proof of full vaccination or a negative COVID test for all performances of Hamlet: Fine Revolution. Guests must provide at least one of the following: - Physical vaccination card (original or photocopy)
- Digital vaccination record (a photo on your phone is permitted)
- Negative COVID-19 test dated within 72 hours of your visit
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Dates
Preview: 7: 30pm, Tuesday, March 15, 2022 Opening: 7:30pm, Wednesday, March 16, 2022 Close: Saturday, March 19, 2022 Venue: Pidgin Palace Arts Venue Address: 1110 S. 6th Ave., Tucson, AZ Venue Organization: Brink Foundation Max. Seating: 30 Ticketing: Eventbrite
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Project Team
Kevin Black: Producer/Director
Featured Cast
Kevin Black: Hamlet
Nikki Crawford: Ophelia
Betsy Kruse Craig: Gertrude
David Andrew MacDonald: Claudius
Harold Dixon: Player King and Gravedigger
Kasey Caruso: Laertes
Key Personnel
Matt Marcus, Sound Design
Ron Creason/Todd Polstra, Lighting Design
Ted Kraus, Technical Advisor
Brent Gibbs, Fight Choreographer
Maryann Trombino, Costumes
Alex Leyton, Cinematography
Jason Willis, Editing
Louise Le Hir, Songs |
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Kevin Black links up media--specifically film and theatre--to deliver stories as visceral sensory experiences. In Hamlet: Fine Revolution, his theme is how our human-to-machine relationships affect our human-to-human relationships. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University’s Drama program, he has acted at The New York Shakespeare Festival, Primary Stages, Theatre for a New Audience, The Pearl Theatre Company, Laguna Playhouse, and Arizona Theatre Company, and appeared in films selected for the San Francisco International, Seattle International, Venice and Sundance Film Festivals. In addition to his producing, writing, and acting work, he is a Professor of Practice in the University of Arizona's School of Theatre, Film & Television. |
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| Nikki Crawford is an award winning actor, singer and producer whose career spans film, television and live theatre, working with luminaries like Leslie Uggams, Charles S. Dutton, Brian Cranston and Mike Nichols. Nikki has guest starred in numerous television series, from Malcolm in the Middle to Criminal Minds; NCSI; and Netflix's Selena: The Series; this Spring 2022 she is slated to star in Fat Ham at The Public Theatre, and in the fall play opposite Nora Dunn in Steppenwolf Theatre’s The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington. |
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Betsy Kruse Craig is an actor, director and educator, working as Associate Managing Artistic Director at the Invisible Theatre in Tucson after nine years in the Bay Area. Betsy was Artistic Director of the Pear Theatre in Mountain View, CA for two seasons and performed extensively in the area in roles such as Hedda Gabler, Veronica in God of Carnage, Morticia Addams in The Addams Family, Barabra Weston in August: Osage County, Bev/Kathy in Clybourne Park and Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate. She recently played Tallulah Bankhead in Invisible Theatre's production of Looped. Kruse Craig was an adjunct professor of Acting and Voice and Movement at the University of AZ and Pima College. She is also Program Director of the Arts for Stratford Schools in CA. |
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David Andrew MacDonald Broadway: Skylight; Rocky; Mamma Mia!;Coram Boy; Two Shakespearean Actors. National Tour: An Inspector Calls (Jeff nom., Chicago). Off-Broadway: Paradise Lost with FPA, and Night and Her Starsand The Green Heart with MTC. Regionally: Arena Stage, GEVA, Studio Theatre DC, Old Globe, ATC, The Alley, the Wilma, Hartford Stage, Yale Rep, Manitoba Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre NJ, The McCarter, and many others. Film: 'Tommy Battles the Silver Sea Dragon’(2018 Winner: Best Performance at the Toronto International H&F Film Festival); ‘Movement and Location’. TV includes: Elementary; Person of Interest, Blacklist; Law and Order; SVU; Sex and the City; and ten years as Edmund Winslow on Guiding Light. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School. |
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Harold Dixon Off-Broadway: 92nd St Y, Kirk Theatre -Theatre Row. National Tour: Ella; (Norman Granz) Regional: The Guthrie, Long Wharf, Arena Stage, Pittsburgh Public, Cincinnati Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Rep Theatre of St. Louis, Geva, Laguna Playhouse, Gloucester Stage, Kingsmen Shakespeare (The Tempest, Measure For Measure, Hamlet, Richard III), Southwest Shakespeare (The Tempest, Hamlet, King Lear, As You Like It), Shakespeare Sedona, Arizona Repertory Theatre (King Lear), Phoenix Theatre, Actors Theatre of Phoenix, Phoenix Symphony, and Invisible Theatre. Rogue Theatre: Much Ado About Nothing; ATC: Diary of Anne Frank, King Charles III, Ella, Streetcar Named Desire, Much Ado About Nothing, others.
Most recently, Harold created the role of Adolphe Sax, the inventor of the saxophone, in the world premiere of Sax Degrees of Separation at Chamber Music Northwest in Portland, Oregon. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus and founding artistic director of the Arizona Repertory Theatre at the School of Theatre, Film, & Television at the University of Arizona, where the Harold Dixon Directing Studio is named for him. Proud member of Actors Equity since 1973. |
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