Olivia Lemmon runs through scenes during the Awkward Elephant Project rehearsal. Burning Coal Theatre Company will host Politheatrics 2012, a festival of devised work centering on the loose theme of politics from across the southeastern United States and beyond.
The term "devised theater" might cause you to shrug, but you practice it all the time. It's a lot like playing. More and more, local theater companies are using this intuitive, collaborative writing process to develop lively, original work for area stages. The energy and urgency that directed improvisation encodes into theatrical scripts and performances will be on display at this first-ever festival of devised work by companies from across the state and throughout the Southeast. Presenting new performances loosely centered on the idea of politics will be Haymaker of Durham, Urban Garden of Raleigh, Machine Theatre of Charlotte, force/collision of Washington, D.C., Neutral Ground Ensemble of New Orleans, Awkward Elephant Project of Pittsburgh, and Anna Jones of London and New York. The festival runs Thursdays–Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. through July 8. Tickets to all performances are $5; visit burningcoal.org for the full schedule. —Chris Vitiello
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Burning Coal Theatre at the Murphey School
- 224 Polk St, Raleigh Wake County NC 27604
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919-834-4001
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