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Rachel Chavkin

RACHEL CHAVKIN

  
Nationality:    USA
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below is a list of Rachel Chavkin's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Architecting         Confirmation         Give Up! Start Over! (In the darkest of times I look to Richard Nixon for hope)         Howl         Particularly in the Heartland         Peace         Recipe         Roosevelvis         Thousand Natural Shocks, A

Architecting

Architecting
(workshop production 3LD Art & Technology Center, NY, 2008) From a condemned bar in post-Katrina New Orleans, to the mythical South of Gone with the Wind, to a lonely gas station in Arkansas, Architecting is a multi-media road-tripping requiem for modern America. Ghosts of American prejudice haunt a play, that questions whether this country has ever recovered from slavery and the Civil War. Aggressive athleticism is combined with wicked humor, video crashes against song, and at the center of it all stand humans confronting the world as it changes radically under their feet.

Notes:
created by Jessica Almasy, Davey Anderson, Frank Boyd, Rachel Chavkin, Jill Frutkin, Matt Hubbs, Libby King, Jake Margolin, Dave Polato, Kristen Sieh, Lucy Kendrick Smith, Nathan Wright and Nick Vaughan with Stephanie Douglass, Jake Heinrichs and Brian Scott

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Organisations:
The TEAM, Performance Space 122 & National Theatre of Scotland Workshop

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Music:
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Confirmation

Synopsis:
If you pinned me against a wall, Id admit to being a liberal. And pinning me against a wall is exactly what Id expect from someone like you. Confirmation is about gulfs we cant talk across and the way we choose to see only the evidence that proves were right. Working with research into the phenomenon of confirmation bias, Confirmation is an attempt to have an honourable dialogue with political extremism. Created by multiple Fringe First winners Chris Thorpe and Rachel Chavkin, and presented by Warwick Arts Centre and China Plate. Commissioned by Northern Stage and Battersea Arts Centre.

Notes:
written by Chris Thorpe and Rachel Chavkin

1st Produced:
Northern Stage At King's Hall, Edinburgh Fringe Festival    Aug 2014

Organisations:
Chris Thorpe and Rachel Chavkin

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Music:
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Genre:
Devised, Solo show, 1 hour 20 minutes

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Give Up! Start Over! (In the darkest of times I look to Richard Nixon for hope)

Give Up! Start Over! (In the darkest of times I look to Richard Nixon for hope)
A woman has swallowed her television. She is the subject of a scientific experiment: Can a human survive if no one is watching? Isolated in a room with a video camera that may or may not connect her to the outside world, the Experiment begins to channel personalities stolen from game shows, Access Hollywood, and most infamously, America's 37th President. On a desperate quest of the real, she is haunted by his immortal words: "Isn't it a hell of a thing? That the fate of a great nation can depend on camera angles. . ." Give Up! Start Over! is a relentless solo performance about reality television, Richard Nixon, and the search for authenticity in America.

Notes:
created by Jessica Almasy and Rachel Chavkin with Jake Heinrichs, Darron L West and Matt Hubbs

1st Produced:
C Venue 34, Edinburgh Festival Fringe    03 Aug 2005

Organisations:
The TEAM

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Music:
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Howl

Synopsis:
from Allen Ginsburg's famous poem, and combines the poem with excerpts from Kerouac's On the Road.

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Organisations:
http://www.theteamplays.com/

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Genre:
Short Play One act

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Particularly in the Heartland

Particularly in the Heartland
Visit a Kansas where parents vanish, aliens grow in cornfields, New Yorkers fall from the sky, and dead Kennedys stop by for Christmas dinner& Winner of the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe First Award, shortlisted for the Edinburgh Best Writing Award 2006, awarded Best Production Dublin Fringe 2007, Particularly in the Heartland is a fantastical journey into the geographical center of the United States. The three Springer children are orphaned after what might be a tornado or an alien invasion or the Rapture itself. One by one three visitors arrive: an alien in possession of the body of a dead pregnant teenage girl, an East Coast business woman named Dorothy whose plane has crashed in the cornfields, and the ghost of 1968 democratic presidential hopeful and liberal icon Robert F. Kennedy. A year passes and a new American family is forged in eggs and flour, music and magic. Particularly in the Heartland is a play about losing sight of America and trying to fall back in love with it.

Notes:
created by Jessica Almasy, Frank Boyd, Rachel Chavkin, Jill Frutkin, Brian Hastert, Matt Hubbs, Libby King, Jake Margolin, Kristen Sieh with Stephanie Douglass, Jake Heinrichs, Chantal Pavageaux and Nick Vaughan

1st Produced:

Organisations:
The TEAM

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Music:
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Peace

Synopsis:
War has destroyed the land and a 75-year-old man and his two 12-year-old daughters are counting on their last chance of escape: a dung beetle (fed only pure, organic fecal seed) who can fly them to heaven.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Aristophanes. written by Taylor Mac And Rachel Chavkin. One-act Adaptation (with songs) of the Aristophanes play of the same name. . A workshop production of "Peace" was performed in the Target Margin's Aristophanes Festival At the Here Arts Center, NYC As part of commission of new works based on plays by Aristophanes.

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Genre:
short play. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  1 beetle

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Recipe

Synopsis:
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Notes:
part of Theatre Uncut. Theatre Uncut was established in 2011 to encourage debate and galvanise action around political issues that affect all of our lives. Written by Rachel Chavin of the TEAM

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Genre:
political piece

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Roosevelvis

Synopsis:
On a hallucinatory road trip from the Badlands to Graceland, the spirits of Elvis Presley and Theodore Roosevelt battle over the soul of Ann, a painfully shy meat-processing plant worker, and what kind of man or woman Ann should become. Set against the boundless blue skies of the Great Plains and endless American highway, RoosevElvis is a new work about gender, appetite, and the multitudes we contain.

Notes:
Created by Rachel Chavkin, Libby King, Jake Margolin, and Kristen Sieh, with Matt Hubbs, Andrew Schneider, and Nick Vaughan. The TEAM is a Brooklyn-based ensemble dedicated to creating new work about the experience of living in America today.

1st Produced:
Bushwick Starr in Brooklyn, NY    Oct 2013

Organisations:
The Team

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Thousand Natural Shocks, A

Thousand Natural Shocks, A
A time-bending quartet inspired by Hamlet and other visions of the end of the world. The king is dead and Hamlet and Laertes are called home from their spoiled college lives to find Denmark in chaos - and Ophelia in a blonde wig working at the airport tourist bureau. Horatio records everything, all the while pushing Hamlet to be the leader his country needs. The four youths are rocketed back and forth through time and space: preparations for the king's funeral collide with boxing matches, crash into a wild-eyed Ophelia commanding a million Danish teens to drown themselves in Poland Spring while Laertes blossoms into an aspiring neocon. All the while Hamlet, paralyzed and ironic at the center, struggles to figure out how to take his place in history. Billy Joel wails We Didn't Start the Fire at the funeral in this rock concert deconstruction of Shakespeare's Hamlet for Generation X.

Notes:
created by Jessica Almasy, Jill Frutkin, Brian Hastert, and Rachel Chavkin with Jake Heinrichs, Stephanie Douglass and Matt Hubbs

1st Produced:
C Venue 34, Edinburgh Festival Fringe    03 Aug 2005

Organisations:
The TEAM

1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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