Dell’Arte’s Mad River Festival runs June 24-July24
Celebrating MRFs 20th and Blue Lake’s 100th Anniversary!
2010 Mad River Festival Events:
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DELL’ARTE COMPANY PRESENTS BLUE LAKE: THE OPERA
On the 100th anniversary of the founding of Blue Lake, Dell'Arte takes us back to the wild days of Blue Lake's birth in 1910. Hogs in the streets, rowdy logging camps, mysterious Odd Fellows, gunfights, fires, housewives and socialists--and three tired schoolteachers in charge of 190 students--how could love possibly survive in a place like this? But it did, even when the great fire of 1911 tragically and spectacularly took down the Odd Fellows Hall...
The story is big. It's bold. It pushes the boundaries of what is possible (and believable).
It is nothing less than operatic.
And so... we open the 20th Mad River Festival with BLUE LAKE: The Opera. Nearly every word will be sung in this story based on actual events--both lurid and lyrical--in the early life of Blue Lake. A ribald blending of styles and influences, as quirky as Blue Lake itself, mixing the earthy sounds of folk music with the full-throated coloratura of classical opera, and featuring some of the finest singers in Humboldt County, alongside sheep, chickens, pigs and a milk cow.
What was spawned 100 years ago has hatched into the "peaceable hamlet" we know and love today. The machine guns may be gone from city hall, the gambling palace has a new hotel, the sewer system is still working--but what new visions await us in the next 100 years, that we seed today? As Shakespeare said, "What's past is prologue, what to come in yours and my discharge..."
Fast, physical, comic...and operatic! BLUE LAKE: The Opera, in Dell'Arte's inimitable style.
Premieres June 24 at the Mad River Festival.
Directed by
Michael Fields and
Lauren Wilson
Written by
Lauren Wilson
Music by
Tim Gray
JUNE 24, 25, 26, 27, & JULY 1, 2, 3 at 8 pm in Dell’Arte’s Rooney Amphitheatre
DELL’ARTE PRESENTS RED LIGHT IN BLUE LAKE
Bawdy and bold, “Red Light in Blue Lake” is back during Dell’Arte’s 2010 Mad River Festival. This saucy cabaret for adults only is sure to tickle your fancy and your funny bone.
Featuring wild acts, burlesque, music and more, for one night only the little hamlet of Blue Lake will be blushing red. Classy and sassy, crude and lewd, “Red Light in Blue Lake” is an extravaganza of naughty and nice. Completely unpredictable and always entertaining, this cutting-edge cabaret is not for the faint of heart.
Get your tickets early, as this event always sells out!
Directed by
Michael Fields
JULY 2 at 10:30 pm in Dell’Arte’s Carlo
Funded by the Nancy La Frenz Fellowship for Emerging Dell’Arte Ensembles
DELL’ARTE PRESENTS
KLINKE
A Poetically Comic New Circus Show from Italy
She travels the world in a box,
He only wants to stay out of troubles...
A breathtaking flirt looking for a love story.
Among boxes, ladders and suitcases, one is launched into the unpredictable world of Klinke. Treading the fine line between technique and poetry, it is a sublime show which melts the most important aspects of performance namely theatre, dance and circus, culminating in the unique genre of the new circus. Klinke is a piece of entertainment which is able to keep the audience glued to their seats as well as take them on an enthralling journey of excitement and amusement.
A show which not only develops in several dimensions Klinke has been created on several planes and levels involving objects such as boxes, suitcases, step ladders and other luminary objects, allowing for acts such as balancing, free ladder acrobatics, juggling, handstands and other complicated aerial maneuvers.
By Olivia Ferraris and Milo Scotton
Directed by Philip Radice
Costumes by Colomba Ferraris
JULY 9 at 8 pm, JULY 10 at 2 & 7 pm, July 11 at 2 & 7 pm in Dell’Arte’s Carlo Theatre
DELL’ARTE PRESENTS in ASSOCIATION WITH PLAYHOUSE ARTS
LOS PAYASOS MENDIGOS RISE AGAIN!
Flying Fruits and Vegetables. A Chorizo Dance. Mexican Wrestlers, Water Ballet. A Mermaid. Singing, Dancing and Celery Whipping and of course, Men in Spandex. Los Payasos return home to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the festival where they were born and play for the fans who have been so good to them! A mix of their best loved bits with plenty of new craziness, this promises to be a rare and hilarious treat. Believe it!
JULY 15, 16, 17 & 18 at 8 pm in Dell’Arte’s Rooney Amphitheatre
JULY 18 at 4pm (short show)