A.I.T.Q.R. Staged Reading
Carrie Beehan and A.I.T.Q.R. (Alazon In The Quiet Room) presents a staged reading of
A.I.T.Q.R. Displaced.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14th 2019 at
EAST VILLAGE PLAYHOUSE NYC
7pm-9pm
The Listen School at East Village Playhouse presents A.I.T.Q.R.Displaced 2019 Staged Reading.
We invite you to hear our most recent script development and songs.
A.I.T.Q.R.Displaced is music and documentary theater, revealing when immigrant artists leave their quiet rooms of contemplation. A personal story etched in five and more decades, it tells the universal story of immigration and displacement via song, narration, video timelines and projection. Displacement embodies uncertainty and the unknown.
In this staged reading we hone in on our script and songs and will not be projecting visuals.
We welcome and appreciate your feedback during the conversation afterward.
Very Limited seats with RSVP only.
1978, a young Czech writer, Vít Hořejš, defects, crossing European borders, expecting to be shot in the back, meanwhile, caught in the UK Brixton riots, Hyde Park bombings, and skinhead violence, Carrie Beehan, travels to the mural-heavy walls dividing East and West Berlin. A video editor for German News broadcasting, she edits the international horror of war-refugee diaspora. Singer, Louisa Bradshaw, meets Carrie in Berlin-both moving to New York City as performers, meeting Vit Horejs. Bradshaw sings of her mother’s PTSD as a child hiding her Jewish friend from Nazi soldiers in the walls of her bedroom. Cherish recounts her parents journey from war-battered Philippine villages to her East Village home of birth. Artist Venus De Mar’s speaks of violence and othering living as a displaced transgender person for over 35 years. Anna witnesses a man shopping with his wife and child in Stockholm wearing a Swastika. It is 2018. Carrie’s bandmate, a Bronx musician, is ravaged with dementia while Carrie’s dying, bankrupt father instructs her to row toward unchartered waters. Crossing the Arizona border to the Mexican town Naco, Sonora, documenting children’s mural art, the border mural asks Carrie in bold graphics: “First Berlin, Now Naco?”
