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Peter S Petralia

PETER S PETRALIA

  
Nationality:    USA
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Dr. Peter S Petralia is a producer, director, writer, curator and artistic director of Proto-type Theater. With Proto-type, he has written over a dozen full-length performance works that have premiered in New York City, North Carolina, the United Kingdom, Romania and Amsterdam. He is the recipient of several awards, grants and residencies including the HERE Artist Residency Program (NYC), Lincoln Center Directors Lab (NYC), Das Arts (Amsterdam), 2004 nytheatre.com Person of the Year (NYC), Artward Bound of the Field (NYC), Chashama Area Award (NYC), Mondo Cane Commission from Dixon Place (NYC), TCG/ITI Travel Grant (NYC/Russia), The Creative Lab at The Center for Contemporary Art (Glasgow), the Outside/Input Program of Richard Foremans Ontological-Hysteric Theater (NYC), IETM Intro Award, Theatre Sandbox (Watershed/PM Studio, Bristol) and Jerome Foundation Commission from PS122 (NYC). Peter has worked as a curator, has been a guest artist in Busan, South Korea, Dublin, and Asheville, North Carolina and is an active advisory board member for several UK Charities. Peter is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre in the Department of Contemporary Arts at MMU Cheshire where he is programme leader for the BA (Hons) Contemporary Theatre and Performance degree.

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         berries and bulls         Bunny's Last Night in Limbo         Cheap Thrills         Invisible Messages         Third Person: Bonnie & Clyde Redux         Three Ring         Virtuoso         Whisper

berries and bulls

Synopsis:
berries and bulls fuses movement directed by choreographer Tiffany Mills and text shaped by experimental theater artist Peter Petralia with the Company.
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1st Produced:
Dance New Amsterdam, 280 Broadway (2nd floor)    17 Jun 2010

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Genre:
musical piece

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Bunny's Last Night in Limbo

Bunny's Last Night in Limbo
A boy discovers his sexuality in this quirky and innovative one act: coming of age in suburbia has never been quite like this.

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Proto-type

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Play/Drama

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Cheap Thrills

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1st Produced:
-    Apr 2002

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Proto-type

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http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

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Invisible Messages

Synopsis:
a surreal dissection of disappearance and identity conducted by three people whose journeys around the world serve as a springboard for an investigation of the ephemeral nature of perception, mobility and fame. their intertwining narratives take the audience on a visually intense journey from the depths of the brain to the most remote corner of the Gobi desert in search of an understanding of what it means to be truly present in the modern world. the theme of perception unfolds around a woman who suffers from an affliction to a part of her brain called Area 25 which causes acute depression-after she is treated for it with electrode implants, she decides to relive her life, both good experiences and bad, in order to truly feel them. Mobility is explored by a man who is constantly running away and has decided to completely disappear from his life via the Trans-Siberian Railway. Lastly, an encounter with fame and obliteration of personal identity is related by a girl who has recently discovered that she isn't who she thought she was-her memory of the first ten years of her life have come back suddenly when she sees a made-for-TV movie about a tragic accident that happened to her as a toddler. these three modern creatures cross, collide and eventually connect.
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Proto-type

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Third Person: Bonnie & Clyde Redux

Synopsis:
During the great depression, young lovers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow went on an infamous three-year spree of bank robbery and murder, which ended abruptly in 1934 when they were ambushed and killed by police in Louisiana. Nobody knows all the details, but their violent love story has become legend worldwide. Through evidence, personal stories, rumours, re-enactments, video and drawings, the electric meeting of Bonnie and Clyde is retold, exploring the motivations that drive our fascination with the life and death of these notorious lovers.

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Written/directed by Peter S Petralia. Performed And devised by Gillian Lees And Andrew Westerside

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Proto-type Theater

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Genre:
Piece

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Three Ring

Synopsis:
A theatrical event that merges circus, theater, dance, and performance art, which is constructed from fragments of sanity, obsession, and love as told by five inmates in an insane asylum for circus performers.

Notes:
originally developed as part of the HERE Artist Residency Program at HERE Arts Center, New York City

1st Produced:
Walkerspace in New York City    2003

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Genre:
one act 120 min

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Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Virtuoso

Synopsis:
about a stagnant American suburb circa 1963

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part of Queer Up North International Festival. written by Peter S Petralia

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Proto-type Theater

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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Whisper

Synopsis:
uses the headphone technology to spin a story that unfolds in your head like a nightmare.

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Organisations:
Proto-type

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Genre:
theatre work

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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