Enter and rest your legs, weary traveller. Ah, I see my wares have caught your eye. Quite a collection, yes? Perhaps you desire a trinket for yourself, or for whomever awaits you at road's end? Of course, duty calls and you must soon depart, but these precious baubles have a sweet song all their own...
Unrehearsed: Midsummer Night's Dream (Sep. 2, FREE)
It's a gameshow competition, it's a play, it's a Midsummer where the actors walk on with the text memorized and nothing else. No rehearsals, no director, just a battle of wits and wills to see who best knows their lines while trying to piece together a show. I'm Theseus, the nicest guy in Athens.
The Barefoot Shakespeare Company, free tix, 4pm on Sep. 2, at Summit Rock in Central Park. Come thru!!!
Dancing at Lughnasa (Oct. 19-22, FREE)
I'm thrilled to be joining the cast of this limited engagement of Dancing at Lughnasa, directed by the brilliant Miguel Bregante. I'm playing the Narrator and all the other lads in a visionary take on the classic text that's all about maximizing the imaginative potential of the stage by exploring how fluid, strange, and powerful memory can be.
Oct. 19-22, Lenfest Center for the Arts, free tickets, more details to come.
Misc.
Montreal sure is a nice town. I'm briefly home after wrapping the wildly successful opening run of everybody's favourite new musical: The Dastardly Thornes v. The Town of Goldhaven, at The Brick, in Brooklyn. If you missed out on getting tickets, fear not. The show has legs, and if there's any justice in the world it'll get to stretch them. Here's a picture of me in the show, before I get my eyes gouged out by the guy in the chair back there. How fun!
And if you happen to be in Quebec this fall and see a giant inflatable colon, presented by Colorectal Cancer Canada, go inside. The voice of the exhibit guide might sound familiar.
Anyway. Hit me up with more gigs? I like working.
Best,
Carl
(Photo Ben Holbrook, poster Mel Lee Filonuk)
This is the Carl Bindman Newsletter, for members of my professional or personal networks whom I think should get the scoop and be kept in the loop.
This newsletter was written on Lenapehoking, the occupied land of the Lenni Lenape.