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Geoff Sobelle

GEOFF SOBELLE

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Antje Oegel International  represented by Antje Oegel

Geoff Sobelle graduated from Stanford University before training at Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris. He is the co-artistic director of Rainpan 43, a renegade absurdist outfit devoted to creating original actor-driven performance works, including the 2005 hit at St. Stephen's all wear bowlers. He has been a company member of Philadelphia's Pig Iron Theatre Company' since 2001 and has been nominated for three Barrymore Awards, including the prestigious F. Otto Haas Award 2004 in Philadelphia Magazine. Pig Iron works include: Gentlemen Volunteers, Mission to Mercury, Shut Eye, James Joyce is Dead and so is Paris, Hell Meets Henry Halfway, Chekhov Lizardbrain and Welcome to Yuba City.

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below is a list of Geoff Sobelle's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         All Wear Bowlers         Amnesia Curiosa         Elephant Room         Flesh and Blood & Fish and Fowl         Machines Machines Machines Machines Machines Machines Machines         Object Lesson

All Wear Bowlers

Synopsis:
the absurdist tale of two silent film stars who fall off the screen and into a clown show. In trying to understand the situation, they just become more confused. Comedy, physical theatre, stage magic and vaudeville all combine in this Edinburgh hit; Samuel Beckett meets Rene Magritte meets Laurel and Hardy.
the theatre List

Notes:
written by Geoff Sobelle And Trey Lyford

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Organisations:
HARP / Rainpan43

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Genre:
75 min Comedy

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Amnesia Curiosa

Synopsis:
Ghosts, memory and wonder

Notes:
Written by Geoff Sobelle and Trey Lyford

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Genre:
Drama

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Elephant Room

Synopsis:
Combine the glory of a Styx reunion tour, with the transcendental power of a 200-year-old Zuni shaman and add a dash of trailer park ennui and you come close to describing the mystical pull of a trip to the Elephant Room. From the uninhibited, "engaging" (Washington Post) absurdist performance duo Rainpan 43 and actor-magician Steve Cuiffo comes a new theatrical event. Filled with off-the-wall magic and sublime comedy, Elephant Room examines the childlike wonder of three deluded illusionists who choose to live their off-center lives by sleight of hand.

Notes:
Created by Steve Cuiffo, Trey Lyford, And Geoff Sobelle

1st Produced:
Arena Stage At The Mead Center For American Theater, 1101 Sixth St Sw, Washington, Dc    20 Jan 2012

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Genre:
75 min Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Flesh and Blood & Fish and Fowl

Synopsis:
Barricaded behind the doors of civilisation's last office, co-workers rearrange the food chain in a feral mix of theatre, art and taxidermy. From the twisted minds of Charlotte Ford and Geoff Sobelle comes their latest concoction of off-the-chart physical humour and provocative storytelling.

Notes:
written by Charlotte Ford And Geoff Sobelle

1st Produced:
Philadelphia Live Arts Festival.    2008

Organisations:
Barrow Street Theatre

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Machines Machines Machines Machines Machines Machines Machines

Synopsis:
This absurdist play is the story of three paranoid xenophobes who go to such lengths to protect themselves from the outside world that they themselves become the object of suspicion. Central to the piece are the workings of extraordinarily complex Rube Goldberg-style machines that have been assembled to accomplish super menial tasks. With its players exercising maximum effort for minimum gain, machines machines machines machines machines machines machines employs a unique blend of clowning and engineering in a sendup of America's obsession with technology and security.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
written And Performed by Quinn Bauriedel, Trey Lyford, Geoff Sobelle

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Genre:
Piece

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Object Lesson

Synopsis:
The search for meaning in boxes of stuff collected over a lifetime

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Genre:
Drama

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