Corner Pocket - ACT I
(Dark stage. Sound of a solid pool break, balls dropping into pockets. This resolves into thunder.)
(A spotlight slowly up on MANAYUNK ELLISON OHARA, an athletic, angular woman in her early thirties. Theres a hardness to her, but also a fear shes not sure how to handle this spotlight, what it means, where its coming from, where she is. She wears a wedding dress.)
MANAYUNK
Hello? Anyone?
Hello?
(She looks down at her wedding dress, like what the hell.)
MANAYUNK (squinting up at the spotlight.)
Hey! Where am I?
SPIRIT ANIMAL (voice, booming and slightly distorted, from overhead)
You dont recognize it?
MANAYUNK
How can I recognize anything, Ive got a light shining in my facewho are you?
SPIRIT ANIMAL (voice)
Youve had quite a shock.
MANAYUNK
What happened to me?
SPIRIT ANIMAL (voice)
You died.
The Play
Corner Pocket began its life in 2006, the same year as Extant Arts Company. Since then it's been through numerous workshops, first at Princeton University and then in New York City. Now Extant Arts is very proud to present its World Premiere!
Synopsis: World-famous pool shark Manayunk O'Hara is having a
rough week- her husband's cheating, her arch-rival's on the rise, and to
make matters worse, she's just been murdered. Trapped in the Afterlife
with only her sanctimonious Spirit Animal for company, Manayunk has one
thing on her mind...REVENGE!
Featuring:
Alexandra Hellquist, James Liebman, Virginia Logan, Kari Swenson
Riely, Mary Schneider, Eric Sutton*
Set Design Lighting
Design Sound Design
Jeremy C. Doucette Elizabeth A. Coco Jared Singer
Costume Design Puppet Design Production
Stage Manager
Tristan Raines Chana
Porter Anna Burnham*
*Appearing courtesy of Actors Equity Association
An AEA Showcase Production
Our Story
Extant Arts is a small, hard-working band of theatre artists and professionals who have made it their mission to bring to life classic plays and help to develop new plays with classical themes. We need your help - our friends, families, strangers, and audience - to help us make this play! (And your donations are tax-deductible!)
Since its founding in 2006, Extant Arts Company has presented
high-quality productions from the classical canon coupled with exciting
and profound new work in venues throughout the New York metropolitan
area. Committed to continued engagement with enduring stories, Extant's
dedicated artists and staff have explored the works of such luminaries
as Euripides, Shakespeare, Chekhov, and Ibsen, as well as contemporary
voices like Rebecca Gilman, and Ellen McLaughlin, all while working with
schools to foster a passion for theatre in the next generation.
The Impact
It is one of Extant's highest priorities to nurture and support developing artists, which we do through our in-school education programs, dark night reading series, and full productions, like this one.
We at Extant Arts are thrilled to be presenting Andy James Hoover's New York premiere Corner Pocket. We have had the pleasure of collaborating with Andy in the past, and we could not be more excited to bring his phenomenal new play to New York.
In supporting Extant's first fully-staged World Premiere you support us in bringing new work to life. We believe developing new theatre is vital to the lifeblood of the artistic community, and we hope you will help us continue in this important endeavor.
What We Need
$15 buys snowglobes in bulk for the show (you'll understand when you see it)
$50 pays for gels for the theatre's lights
$100 prints scripts for our team (double sided, we promise!)
$175 creates a cast of handmade shadow puppet characters for "The Trial Scene"
$200 pays for the props for the show
$300 costumes our cast
$1,000 pays for all our programs and postcards
$1,200 pays our talented designers (lights, sound, costumes, set, props, phew!)
Other Ways You Can Help
1) Come and see CORNER POCKET October 7 - 23, Thursday through Saturday at 8 pm, Sunday, October 9 & 16 at 7pm, Sunday, October 23 at 3pm at the Gene Frankel (24 Bond Street, just off Lafayette)
2) Volunteer to help out with marketing, production, fundraising, or ushering
3) Let others know you donated to our campaign by clicking the share buttons to post to Facebook, Twitter, etc.
For more information on all of these ways to help, check out our website: www.extantarts.org
To Claim Your Perks
Email Kate at kate.stahl@extantarts.org at least one week in advance of the show you are planning to attend (even more time is better) so we have the chance to prepare something special for you!
More on Who We Are
Our Mission: The word 'extant' means 'enduring, not destroyed or lost,' and it is the charge and passion of Extant Arts Company to engage with theatre that has endured, and make sure that such works are not lost to present or future audiences. By reinterpreting classic stories through live performance and fostering the classics of the future through adaptation, new play development, and educational outreach, Extant Arts Company strives to create a diverse community dedicated to sustaining stories.
