SIUe Xfest

Four hot days, four cool plays. Performing Ensembles from Portland, Chicago, St. Louis and Los An

SIUe Xfest is a four-day festival of alternative theatre that introduces our campus and community to a wide variety of alternative theatre artists. Xfest is a home where artists can discuss and develop new and innovative performance. Each year the festival presents several ensembles of national and international repute as well as featuring the works of local emerging artists. Xfest also offers cla

sses and workshops, taught by the visiting artists, to university students and to the local community.

09/13/2019

The final day!

09/12/2019

Day Three!

09/06/2019

We are back! We are celebrating 10 years of Xfest by presenting five audience favorites to present new shows! Hope you can join us next week for five nights of amazing alternative theater and dance on campus! And our first show is the show that started it all. Ten years later "Whammy!" returns to the Metcalf, new and improved!

Monday, Sept 9 - YoungLiars present "Whammy!"

The agony and the ecstasy of "self-help" get a delirious makeover in this madcap multi-media dance-theatre extravaganza. Part 1960s dance party and part Nietzschean nightmare, Whammy! prods and probes the American fever dream where Dr. Phil, Diazepam and daily affirmations crash headlong in sexual addiction, su***de and The Shirelles. WTF? Want to know the seven secrets to a sane self? You know you do! And there’s only one way to find out! The show that started it all. Whammy! was the opening production of the inaugural Xfest. Ten years later the show (which has been presented in St. Louis, Columbus and NYC) returns – re-imagined and re-cast, featuring SIUE Theater Dance alums and faculty.

"Whammy! packs a hell of an existential punch to the gut – or a hell of a punch to the existential gut, I’m not sure which. In a word, the emotional experience of Chuck Harper’s piece is endlessly fascinating."
nytheatre.com

"This piece truly had me nearly in tears and laughing out loud moments later; it also left me thinking about the nature of psychology. Warning: The show contains a banana o**y. Don’t worry about what that means."
Time Out New York

tix and info - https://www.siue.edu/artsandsciences/theater/current-season/index.shtml

09/12/2018

Xfest Day Three!

09/11/2018

Our biggest day ever at Xfest! Every workshop was packed to overflowing and performances are all near sell-outs!

09/10/2018

Its alive!

09/04/2018

Deeply Rooted Dance Theater
Friday, Sept 14, 7:30 Dunham Hall

Drawing from the companies repertoire, Deeply Rooted Dance Theater presents an evening of short pieces including “Desire”, “When Men”, “Lambs,” and the companies signature pieces, “Church of Nations” & “Heaven”.

“Deeply Rooted is the city’s answer to the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, yet with a profile very much its own… spiritual fervor, physical prowess, and sheer, unalloyed joy in movement.” (Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun Times)

“This dance event went well beyond how well choreographer Kevin Iega Jeff makes dance, or how technically competent the company is. This was an ecstatic rite…remarkable.” Sally R. Sommer, The Village Voice

Chicago’s Deeply Rooted Dance Theater is rooted in traditions of American and African-American dance, storytelling, and universal themes that spark a visceral experience and ignite an emotional response in diverse audiences worldwide. DRDT collaborates with nationally renowned choreographers, across the spectrum of modern, ballet, and African dance, to reflect contemporary voices. In Chicago, the company has performed at numerous renowned venues including the Auditorium Theater, the Shubert Theater, The Dance Center of Columbia College, The Harris Theater for Music and Dance, and the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts. In November 2017 DRDT will host its 20th Anniversary finale at Chicago’s newly renovated Studebaker Theater at the Fine Arts Building.

08/30/2018

"Eddie Poe" by The Coldharts
Thursday, Sept. 13, 7:30pm, Metcalf Theater

Eddie Poe is a two-person dark, musical, comedy created and performed by Katie Hartman and Nick Ryan, in collaboration with Mark Benzel. It is a stand-alone sequel to their award-winning, Off-Broadway show Edgar Allan. It follows a sixteen year old Edgar Allan Poe during his first year at the University of Virginia, as he attempts to distinguish himself among the scholarly elite… but he soon finds his old compulsions difficult to control on a campus filled with temptation. Eddie Poe is a dark, comedic riff on the mania, the addictions, and the society that haunted the life and work of America's first professional writer.

"(Eddie Poe) is in many ways their most mature work, more thoughtful and with a broader scope than their previous shows. The Coldharts deserve their rabid following… Don't miss it."
Cincinnati City Beat

About The Coldharts
The Coldharts are Nick Ryan and Katie Hartman, two theater artists based in Brooklyn, New York. They create devised, American-gothic inspired music¬-theater. They’ve toured their work across North America. Katie Hartman is a Brooklyn-based singer, songwriter, actor and improvisor. Recent New York credits include Bread Arts Collective's Rise and Fall and 3 Sticks' new folk opera, Vestige, both at the Brooklyn performance space, Cloud City. Katie received her BA in Theater Arts from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. Nick Ryan is a theatre artist based in Brooklyn, New York. He is a founding member and resident playwright of Four Humors Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has written eight shows with the company including Candide, Mortem Capiendum and Star City.

08/29/2018

Type/Caste by Rotimi Agbabiaka
Wednesday, Sept 12, 7:30 Metcalf Theater

In Lagos, Nigeria, a young boy tries on his mother’s wedding dress and discovers a liberating world of make-believe. His dreams of a dazzling theatrical career bring him to America, where he discovers that he’ll first have to leap over obstacles placed by an industry that isn't always welcoming to applicants who are neither white nor straight. In his hilarious new solo show, San Francisco Mime Troupe and Beach Blanket Babylon veteran Rotimi Agbabiaka shape-shifts from character to character and uses monologue, song, dance, and drag to embody, explore, and expose the battles minority artists fight in the exclusive world of mainstream American theatre

About Rotimi Ababiaka
Rotimi Agbabiaka (writer, performer) is an actor, singer, writer, director, and teaching artist. He most recently appeared in Bootycandy at Brava Theater, Schooled (Thomas Jones) with the San Francisco Mime Troupe, Sojourners (Disciple Ufot) and runboyrun (boy) at Magic Theatre, in Hair (Hud) with Bay Area Musicals, Holiday High Jinx (Dancing Dan) with Word for Word, Choir Boy (Junior) at Marin Theatre Company, The Amen Corner (David) with Alter Theater, We Are Proud To Present ... (Another Black Man) at Just Theater, and Raisin in The Sun (Asagai) at Cal Shakes. He is a collective member of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, a former cast member at Beach Blanket Babylon, and his solo play, Homeless, won Best Solo Performance at the SF Fringe Festival. As a director he helmed the world premiere of VS. at TheatreFIRST. He also teaches youth theatre with Each One Reach One, SF Shakespeare, and the SF Mime Troupe Youth Theatre Project, and is the Features Curator for Theatre Bay Area’s online magazine. He studied at Moscow Art Theatre and earned his MFA from Northern Illinois University

08/28/2018

It's almost here!

Tuesday, Sept 11 - Ten Directions presents:
"Bouffon Glass Menajoree"

Gentlemen callers beware: The Wingfields plume their nest with broken glass, twisted morals, and perverted minds. Each night a new audience member will get to play the role of Jim, the gentlemen caller. Tom, Amanda and Laura claim no responsibility for hurt feelings or offended sentiments. These deformed anti-clowns subversively take the p**s out of everyone and everything. Why would anyone do this to an American Masterpiece!?!

“Wickedly subversive and electrifyingly interactive parody.”
Peter Crawley, The Irish Times

"Hilarious-Don't Miss!" -TimeOut NY

About Ten Directions:
Ten Directions is a theater and film creative team formed by artistic directors Lynn Berg and Audrey Crabtree. Ten Directions tells stories that pose questions to our audiences, collaborating with artists and ourselves. Engaging and entertaining our audiences, we choose the style, medium and artists to best tell these stories. Together they created over 15 original productions including the bouffon works Detritus, Dirty Old Medicine Show, and the acclaimed Bouffon Glass Menajoree. They've also created mask, commedia, rock opera, performance art and roller skating shows.. Ten Directions’ work focuses on audience engagement, physical expression and stories that stir the pot. As life-long students, they have advanced training in clown, bouffon and physical comedy with David Shiner, Chris Bayes, Sue Morrison, Giovanni Fusetti and John Towsen and improvisation with Armando Diaz and the Magnet. Lynn and Audrey worked together with performance artist Liz Magic Lazer in the commissioned Performa piece I Feel Your Pain

09/14/2017

It doesn't get any better than this!

09/12/2017

Day One was a whirlwind of artistic energy and lots of sweat. Day Two promises even more of the same!

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville SIUe Xfest ERA Antonia Lassar Nathaniel Justiniano Naked Empire Bouffon Company Antonia Lassar Lucille Rosalind Cashion

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