Tim Crouch performs AN OAK TREE and ENGLAND at UMass!
Award-winning theatre artist and playwright Tim Crouch visits the University of Massachusetts Amherst in March 2010 for a week-long artist-in-residency program! During his stay at UMass, Tim will be performing his plays ENGLAND (with Hannah Ringham) and AN OAK TREE as well as delivering a public lecture. Both plays won major acclaim at recent Fringe Festivals and are currently on tour worldwide, where they are winning an impressive array of international awards. AN OAK TREE just completed a terrific 5+ week run in Los Angeles (check out www.oaktreela.com) where it took audiences by storm!
As space is limited, reservations are required for ENGLAND and AN OAK TREE. A limited number of tickets will also be available on the day of the performance at the venues. No reservations are needed for the public lecture.
All events (except on Friday) are held on the campus of UMass Amherst. The schedule of events is as follows:
Monday, March 22, 12.15-1 pm : Public Lecture, Bartlett Hall (basement) Auditorium Room 65 (directions)
Monday, March 22, 8pm : ENGLAND, at the University Gallery. FULL HOUSE — sorry, no more reservations available. A limited waiting-list is available at the door just before the event. (directions)
Tuesday, March 23, 4pm : AN OAK TREE, at the Curtain Theater. Online reservations are now closed — tickets are available at the door.(directions)
Tuesday, March 23, 8pm : AN OAK TREE, at the Curtain Theater. FULL HOUSE — sorry, no more reservations available. A limited waiting-list is available at the door just before the event. (directions)
Wednesday, March 24, 8pm : AN OAK TREE, at the Curtain Theater. FULL HOUSE — sorry, no more reservations available. A limited waiting-list is available at the door just before the event. (directions)
Friday, March 26, 6pm : ENGLAND, at the Mead Art Museum. (reservations, at Amherst College)
Friday, March 26, 8pm : ENGLAND, at the Mead Art Museum. (reservations, at Amherst College)
(with Hannah Ringham)
ENGLAND is … the story of one thing placed inside another: a heart inside another person’s body, a culture inside another country’s culture, theatre inside a gallery, a character inside an actor, a play inside its audience.
… Crouch gives the most compassionate and salient account of difference … In many ways, this is nothing like theatre as we usually understand it, and yet in crucial elements this is its very essence.— Financial Times
…created with rigorous, poetic economy… ENGLAND belongs to that wonderful genre of thoughtful plays that could be discussed for hours without exhausting its ideas.— New York Times
ENGLAND is a play about identity, culture, journeys and communication – an understated, crisp and intelligent piece of drama, that takes the audience out of the space they’re in, out of themselves, and very subtly puts them somewhere else entirely.— Edinburgh Festivals Magazine
Man turns tree into daughter!
A man loses his daughter to a car. Nothing now is what it is. It’s like he’s in a play – but he doesn’t know the words or the moves.
AN OAK TREE is a unique play about loss, suggestion and the power of the mind. It requires a different guest actor for each showing, with the guest actor having never seen or read the play … until they are in it! This is a breath-taking projection of a performance, given from one actor to another, from a hypnotist to their subject, from an audience to a person.
This exploration and celebration of pure theater’s power is a fascinating must-see.— Variety
Crouch’s multilayered play is as much a master class in acting as it is an intriguing meta-theatrical exercise.— LA Times
… one of those rare productions that more than lives up to its track record … Its brilliance is unfettered and inexplicably moving, for being such a head-trip.— LA Weekly
It is like watching your own heart being mugged. You know exactly how it is happening, but you still can’t prevent it. On a good night, you will leave the theatre the same, but different.— The Guardian
This first annual “After-Festival Event” is sponsored by the UMass College of Humanities and Fine Arts; The University Gallery, Fine Arts Center; the UMass Arts Council; the 5-College Faculty Seminar in Performance Studies; the Five College Lecture Fund; UMass Departments of Theater, Communication, and English; The Chancellor’s Freshman Seminar Funds; Hampshire College Theatre Department; Amherst College Mead Art Museum; and individual donors.