The Collected Works has been collaborating with The Museum of Performance + Design to develop and perform a new site-responsive performance based on materials found in the Museum’s performing arts archive. The project brings together artists devoted to creating theatrical performances within non-traditional environments and a rare collection representing the rich history of the San…
In The Works
These violent delights have violent ends
These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume: the sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite: Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
This may be the next performance site…
Remembering Leonard Nimoy
Leonard Nimoy’s performance as Roger in the film version of The Balcony….
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Tableau IV (Nathalie Brilliant as The Girl: Florentina Mocanu-Schendel as Little Old Man) HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY from all us at Collected Works. Our Balcony at The Old Mint contains multiple examples of how to sustain long term healthy and supportive relationships that are sure to impress your sweety….
Second week of The Balcony at The Old Mint
As went enter into our second week on The Balcony we want to say a huge thank you to the 300+ who saw the production last week, and look forward to playing with new friends this week. If you haven’t secured your tickets, it’s time, as we only have six performances left.
from How to Play The Balcony by Jean Genet
In London, at the Arts Theatre – I saw it – The Balcony was badly staged. It was also bad in New York, Berlin, and in Paris. At least that’s what I was told. In London, the director had had the intention of destroying the one and only British monarchy, above all the Queen, and, with the…
The Cast of The Balcony
Valerie Fachman (Arthur) Valerie is pleased to perform again in The Balcony, having first done so in Chicago in 1985 as Chantal, with the now-defunct Gallery Theatre. Valerie spent 15 years performing, adapting literature to the stage, and co-producing independent theatre in Chi-town with Famous Door (3X Jeff-nominated Shrapnel in the Heart), Pegasus Players (Young…
Sneak Peak of The Balcony at The Old Mint
The Production Crew for The Balcony
Jamie Lyons (co- director/producer) Avid surfer, educator, writer, filmmaker, sailor and stage director who received his AB and PhD from Stanford University. For theatre he has worked at the Mark Taper Forum, Magic Theatre, The Public Theater, La Mama ETC, PS122, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and for six years with the avant-garde New…
Playing in The Old Mint
Alphonse Mucha, 1898 “Stronger than lover’s love is lover’s hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.” Euripides, Medea Coming Fall, 2015