Studebaker Theater Performances

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Shaow of a Doubt at the Performance Place, Somerville, MA 1986

Representative Performances

1978 - present
Over 1000 performances and eight tours in U.S. and to Europe and Canada, including presentations at major international festivals such as Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Gaukler Festival in Cologne and performances at Battersea Arts Centre, London, The Milkveg Theatre, Amsterdam, Emmanu-El Y Dance Series, New York, Lincoln Center Out Of Doors Series, New York, Nuarts Performing Arts Series, Boston, and the Milwaukee Performing Arts Center.

 

"Studebaker has come up with something special: a fluid language of visual symbols. It's something out of which they can fashion narrative and abstract pieces for a lifetime."

--Christian Science Moniter


Invisible Cities, Somerville, MA 1993


Invisible Cities Group site-specific performances:

Things I Never Told U, ICG, Somerville, MA, 2003
Outdoor performance with live music set in a neighborhood and based on Bernard Malamud's short story, "Summer Reading."

Impossible Library, ICG, Jamaica Plain, MA, 2001
Outdoor installation/performance in Forest Hills Cemetery

Notes for the Next Life, ICG, Medford, MA, 1999
Outdoor installation/performance about the Mystic River

Watching the Detectives, ICG, Somerville, MA and Pullman, WA, 1997
Interactive installation/performance based on Paul Auster novel

Dream House, ICG, Medford/Somerville, MA 1996
Interactive installation/performance in house on memory and childhood

Ghost Factory, ICG, Somerville, MA, 1995
Outdoor performance on journey into past, set above buried railway

Invisible Cities, ICG, Somerville, MA, 1994
Large-scale urban performance taking place over one-square-mile of Somerville, MA, inspired by Calvino's book of the same name.

"The Man Himself is spare, compelling."

--Providence Journal

 

"It's thoughtful, visually exciting, funny and elegant, possibly Studebaker's most successful integration of full-text with movement theater to date."

--David Miller, of Shadow of a Doubt



The Man Himself, Perishable Theatre,Providence, RIRI

Shadow of a Doubt, NuArts, Boston, 1989-1993
Commissioned by First Night, Boston; performances in the Nuarts Series, Boston and The Performing Arts Coliseum, Washington University

Film noir performance piece about chaos theory for five actors and three machines with sets by sculptor David Judelson and kinetic sculpture by Arthur Ganson

The Man Himself, Boston and East Coast tour, 1993
One-act play about fascism by British playwright Alan Drury

Nothing At All, The Performance Place, Boston, 1992
Original adaptation of Turgenev's Fathers and Sons

Elvis in Exile, The Performance Place, Boston, 1991
Original adaptation of John Berger's The Seventh Man about migrant labor

Le Bourgeois Gentilehomme, Symphony Hall, Boston, 1989
Commisioned by the Handel and Haydn Society
Adaptation of Moliere's farce into choregraphy to accompany performance on original instruments, conducted by Christopher Hogwood


Dear Studebakers:

"Thank you SO much for letting us come to the show. It was SOOO fun. I liked it so much I hope I can come again another time."

--Maura, 4th grade

Le Bourgeois Gentilehomme, Symphony Hall, Boston

Pulcinella, Symphony Hall, Boston, 1986
Commissioned by the Handel and Haydn Society
Choreographed performance set to music by Stravinsky

Victorian Dreams, C. Walsh Theater, Boston; Merrimack Repertory Theater, Lowell, 1988-1989
Original theater piece about coming of age in the early 20th century, additional text by Edward Lear, music by David Ne

Family Portraits, Boston Women In Theater Festival Performance Place; Wheelock Experimental Theater, Newton Arts Center, 1986-1989
Adaptation for the stage of short stories by David Leavitt

Face to Face, over 500 performances of original movement theater performance, 1978-1989

 

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