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Jim Findlay

JIM FINDLAY

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

         Accidental Nostalgia         Botanica         Dream of the Red Chamber         Must Don't Whip 'Um         Success Of Failure (Or, The Failure Of Success), The

Accidental Nostalgia

Synopsis:
accidental Nostalgia is an operetta about the pros and cons of amnesia. the main character is one Cameron Seymour, a neurologist specializing in the memory function of the brain, who is delivering a lecture about an autobiographical book she has just published called How to Change Your Mind: a Self-Help Manual for Psychogenic amnesiacs. She begins to tell the audience the story of the research she did to write the book, which was an investigation of her own psychogenic (emotionally driven) amnesia. the audience then follows her journey back to the house she grew up in - located in her home town of Carlson, Georgia - where she hopes to trigger missing memories of her childhood, and to find her father, from whom she has been estranged for many years. It turns out that her Father is missing and that she is wanted for his murder, though it is unknown whether he was murdered, committed suicide, or simply disappeared. . .. . . and from that point on, the show becomes a bit of a thriller. the narrative of accidental Nostalgia is punctuated by songs, dance numbers, and interactions with peripheral characters who appear on a large film projection screen. the screen also serves to shift the atmosphere via projections of text and images, manipulated live by designers/performers Findlay and Sugg. It is a hybrid form containing hybrid content, from the outlandish to the philosophical to the deeply personal. It is a mixture of truth and fiction, song and text, movement and stillness.

Notes:
by Cynthia Hopkins with the collaboration of Jim Findlay And Jeff Sugg. Part I of the Accidental Trilogy

1st Produced:
St. Ann's Warehouse (Brooklyn, NY)    2004

Organisations:
accinosco

1st Published:
Contained in: "Play - a Journal Of Plays" issue three   -

Music:
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Genre:
operetta

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Botanica

Synopsis:
Writer and director Jim Findlay examines our complicated relationship to plant life in the creepy, futuristic black comedy Botanica. Sealed in a human terrarium, two unorthodox botanists and a janitor unleash a flood of unusual findings and overturn the constraints of science and social norms. Botanica tracks the scientific experiments and the developing relationship between two botanists sealed in a research facility-a human terrarium. they are joined by a janitor who seems unremarkable except for his curious habit of reading aloud to the plants the most salacious sections of erotic literary texts and his own self-penned blue poetry. Initially the experiments seem to demonstrate an astonishing level of plant consciousness, but eventually the botanists hit a dead end. they decide to bring the janitor into their research. the introduction of this human subject reinvigorates their investigation but leads to unforeseen consequences and unleashes a flood of unusual findings that end in chaos as the constraints of science and social norms are overturned.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
Author: Jeff Jackson and Jim Findlay

1st Produced:
3LD Art & Technology Center
80 Greenwich Street, New York, NY 10006    28 Jan 2012

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Writer and director Jim Findlay examines our complicated relationship to plant life in the creepy, futuristic black comedy Botanica. Sealed in a human terrarium, two unorthodox botanists and a janitor unleash a flood of unusual findings and overturn the constraints of science and social norms. Botanica tracks the scientific experiments and the developing relationship between two botanists sealed in a research facility-a human terrarium. they are joined by a janitor who seems unremarkable except for his curious habit of reading aloud to the plants the most salacious sections of erotic literary texts and his own self-penned blue poetry. Initially the experiments seem to demonstrate an astonishing level of plant consciousness, but eventually the botanists hit a dead end. they decide to bring the janitor into their research. the introduction of this human subject reinvigorates their investigation but leads to unforeseen consequences and unleashes a flood of unusual findings that end in chaos as the constraints of science and social norms are overturned.   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Dream of the Red Chamber

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Brill Building, New York    09 May 2014

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Performance piece

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Must Don't Whip 'Um

Synopsis:
a prequel to the events in the critically acclaimed operetta accidental Nostalgia, Must Don't Whip 'Um is the story of one Cameron Seymour (the same Cameron Seymour whose identity was stolen by the narrator in accidental Nostalgia): an obscure and almost totally forgotten pop star from the 1970's whose financial, artistic, personal and political failures have brought her to the verge of a nervous breakdown, resulting in her desire to quit the entertainment industry and escape from the United States, in order to join a Sufi brotherhood in Morocco. Must Don't Whip 'Um uses as its main conceit Ms. Seymour's "farewell concert" - a celebratory, ecstatic last waltz' during which she mysteriously disappears - presented by Ms. Seymour's daughter, who is attempting to create a documentary about her mother's disappearance.

Notes:
by Cynthia Hopkins with the collaboration of Jim Findlay And Jeff Sugg. Part II of the Accidental Trilogy

1st Produced:
Walker Arts Centre, Minneapolis    2007

Organisations:
accinosco

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
operetta

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Success Of Failure (Or, The Failure Of Success), The

Synopsis:
Just returning home from a triumphant world premiere at the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis, Cynthia Hopkins and her collaborators are heading to St. ann's Warehouse to present this 3rd and final chapter of her accidental Trilogy: an immersive exploration of time, space, and the pros and cons of evolution. an epic folk tale from the far distant future, the Success of Failure (or, the Failure of Success) is the heroic saga of Ruom Yes Noremac's secret mission to save the world. During the course of her lonely journey through space, Ruom Yes Noremac realizes that only by failing to save the earth can she succeed in saving the Universe. This inter-galactic tale is told through accinosco's signature hybrid of thought-provoking text, heart-wrenching songs, and handcrafted videoscapes.

Notes:
by Cynthia Hopkins with the collaboration of Jim Findlay And Jeff Sugg. Part III of the Accidental Trilogy

1st Produced:
Walker Arts Centre, Minneapolis    -

Organisations:
accinosco

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
operetta

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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