(re)acts

(Re)Acts is a community-minded event used to delve deeper into and diversify the perspectives on topics that are important to Forum and related to our current work. Forum invites local artists from multiple disciplines to create artistic responses to a specific prompt, topic, or theme. The outcome is a one-night performance of all of their 10 minute reaction pieces that is casual, experimental, engaging, and electric.

 

 

Upcoming (Re)Acts:

 

Forum (Re)Acts:

GOTTA HAVE FAITH

April 9th 2012 at 7:30 PM

Featuring:  Liz Maestri, Gwydion Suilebhan, Emma Strauss and Emma Jaster, Keira Hart, Shawn Northrip and Jason Schlafstein, Sabrina Mandell and members of Happenstance Theatre.

Local artists explore our season's theme, "Faith in Things Unseen", and create 10-minute multidisciplinary works centered on their beliefs -- in love, community, government,  ghosts, caffeine, gravity, and optical illusions. 

* Your final dose of (Re)Acts until next season!

 

Round House Silver Spring

8641 Colesville Road

* Tickets are "pay what you can" at the door only and go on sale one hour before the performance. (Re)Acts has sold out in the past, so be there early! To reserve in advance, email tickets@forumtd.org.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Past (Re)Acts:

 

 

Forum (Re)Acts: "Sex on the Brain"

January 9, 2012 at 730pm

Round House Silver Spring

 

Inspired by self-help books (like "Brain Sex, Sex on the Brain"), we explore the way men and women communicate in a series of 10 minute performances by local artists. Then join us for a post show reception where we will try to figure out which pieces were written by the men and which were written by the women.

 

Featuring work created by:

Kathleen Akerley, Patrick Bussink, Genna Davidson & Hunter Styles, Hannah Hessel, John Milosich, Steve Spotswood, and Pinky Swear Productions.

 

 

This (Re)Acts is presented as part of Forum Reverb’s Female Voices Festival.

 

 

 

 

Forum (Re)Acts: “Did We Have a Revolution?”

In conjunction with Forum's production of Mad Forest by Caryl Churchill

Monday, October 3rd, 2011 

 

8 teams of artists were given a singe page with images, quotes, and death tolls of an historical revolution and asked to create a 10-minute reaction piece. The page did not name the revolution or its location, participants, and date. The audience experienced their responses and discovered the revolutions at the same time that the artists did.

 

Featuring work created by:

Randy Baker, Ameneh Bordi & Amie Cazel, Richard Byrne, Tim Guillot, Aaron Jones, Jon Lee & Wyckham Avery, Ilana Silverstein, and Kelly Mayfield with members of the Contradiction Dance Company.

 

 

 

Forum (Re)Acts: Naomi Wallace

 

Monday, February 28 

 

We invited local writers, dancers, and artists to create short-yet-potent theatrical responses to one of the poems in Wallace's "To Dance a Stony Field" (1995).

 

Featuring work created by:

Lee August Praley, Patrick Bussink, Jesse Terrill, Kathleen Akerley, and Anne McCaw.

 

 

 

  

  Chatterbox by Kathleen Akerley (photo by Ryan Maxwell)