NOT I

About the Show

A handful of audience members gather in an intimate space. A mouth, no, a woman speaks—she utters a torrent of words, as searing and searching a text as Beckett ever wrote. With scalding intensity, the play clamors to discover: who are we when we are our whole selves when we speak and hear all our voices in a moment—in their rages and echoes and mis-rememberings and deprecations and desires.

Creative and Production Team

Not I
By Samuel Beckett
Starring Catharine Slusar
Directed by Mark Lord
Design by Thom Weaver
Dramaturgy by Jessica Rizzo

About the Artists

Not I is the inaugural production of Joyous Eddies House of Theater, a collaboration between Mark Lord and Catharine Slusar, who first worked together at Bryn Mawr College, where Lord directed Slusar in a production of King Lear. Catharine Slusar, a Barrymore award winning actor, is well known to Philadelphia audiences for her ferocious performances as Martha In Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Theater Exile) and Prospero (Shakespeare in Clark Park). Mark Lord has been sharing work at FringeArts since its early days, including Beckett’s Endgame, Across (a hundred station site-specific project staged throughout Old City), Peter Handke’s The Ride Across Lake Constance, and Zone.

Lord and Slusar have developed independent reputations for working fearlessly and boldly, often seeking out the most compelling, challenging projects imaginable. Joyous Eddies was founded to facilitate collaborative work that puts rich and complex texts into the context of rich, embodied performances. 

Supporters

Not I is supported by the Bryn Mawr College Faculty Research Fund and Plaisir D’Amour Petit Théâtre in Sauve, France, where an early version of this project was developed.

Festival Co-Producer: Michael Lillys

About FringeArts

FringeArts is Philadelphia’s home for contemporary performance, presenting progressive, world-class art that expands the imagination and boldly defies expectation. Our programming exposes audiences to genre-defying dance, theater, and music performances by accomplished and emerging innovators who push the boundaries of art-making and redefine the artistic landscape worldwide. The lineup for our 2019 Fringe Festival this September is now on sale at FringeArts.com.

The Philadelphia Fringe Festival is a 4-week long, city-wide celebration of innovation and creativity in contemporary performance. Each September, the Festival explodes into every nook and cranny of Philadelphia with more than 1,000 artistically daring performances, including national and international performances curated by FringeArts, and works that are produced by independent artists and promoted by FringeArts.

FringeArts Staff + Board

FRINGEARTS STAFF

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Zach Blackwood, Artistic Producer
Zoe McNichols, Associate Producer
April Rose, Fringe Festival Coordinator

Carolyn Schlecker, Senior Adviser Operations
Melissa E. Bridge, Director of Finance
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Marissa Both, Box Office Manager
Claire Frisbie, Marketing and Communications Director
Isabella Raposa, Marketing Manager
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Keighty McLallen, Director of Production
Kelly Orenshaw, Associate Production Manager
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Joanne Marder, Senior Director of Development
Anna Buller, FEASTIVAL Development and Event Coordinator

Fringe Festival Box Office:
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INTERNS

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BOARD

Richard Vague, Chair
Jennifer Bohnenberger, Vice Chair/Secretary
Lisa P. Young, Treasurer

Donald Baines
Juliana Carter
Mark Dichter
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Tony P. Forte
David Hoffman
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