The Chocolate Factory Theater presents the world premiere of Night Keeper, a new theater performance written and directed by LCA Theater Lecturer Aaron Landsman. Tickets are $20 and may be purchased in advance at (866) 811-4111 or www.chocolatefactorytheater.org. Performed by Jehan Young and David Guzman. Music by Norman Westberg. Lighting and projection design by Jeanette Yew, Jon DeGaetano and Jess Barbagallo, and Choreography by Hilary Clark. Assistant Director: Janine Cunningham. The piece is supported by The Creative Capital Award, a commission from the New York State Council on the Arts and funds from The Chocolate Factory.
Landsman’s new performance is staged environmentally throughout The Chocolate Factory Theater’s stark industrial space, juxtaposing spoken text with choreography, live music and projections. Night Keeper takes over the Chocolate Factory space the way a city night takes over your apartment: light from the street leaks in, a phone notification interrupts; the sounds of people passing on the street draw you to the window. Night Keeper is a collection of moments (performed by Jehan Young and Guzman) which accumulate and interweave: a parent talks to a child who cannot sleep; a figure in darkness ruminates on the similar luminosity of lightning bugs and cell phones; another comments on the comings and goings in her building at night.
Yew and DeGaetano's light installation of thin filaments, dim glows, and projector beams fill the space. Drawings by Barbagallo unfurl before our eyes, or appear as animations on walls. Westberg, of the band Swans plays live an ambient score of guitar loops and rhythms, by turns delicate and intense, turns the whole room into a clock. The piece welcomes our collective sleeplessness as a form of communion. Ticket Website: https://ci.ovationtix.com/238/production/1149862 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thechocofactry/
