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Doctored Pictures and The Operating Theater
present...
Written by
Kourtney Rutherford
Produced by
Doriann Scagnelli, Jason Schuler and Kourtney Rutherford
Featuring
Tim Donovan Jr., Thomas Guiffre, Christine Holt, Kourtney Rutherford,
and Jason Schuler
Directed by Kevin Doyle ~ Sets by Megan Biddle ~ Lighting by Peter Hœrburger
NOW NOMINATED FOR TWO
BEST SET DESIGN ~ Megan Biddle
and
BEST
LIGHTING DESIGN ~ Peter Hoerburger
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| NY Mattress and Furniture | The Brooklyn Kitchen | Crest Hardware |
| Cheers Thai Restaurant | Sette Pani Bakery | Santa Fe Restaurant |
| Monkey Town | The Painted Pot | El Moderno Restaurant |
| Chikalicious Dessert Bar | The Lazy Catfish | Sweetups |
| The Royal Oak | Build It Green! | Judy Ellis |
| Sarah Folland | Joan Asheroff | Christine Joaquin |
| Harold Schuler | Michael Schuler | Jeramy Zimmerman |
"Everything, Even Art, Has Its Price..."
Everything has its price in a new production, The Present Perfect, by theater artist Kourtney Rutherford. The performer/director has created a play about materialism in which everything on stage has a price tag: The set, the props, the costumes, even the performers are for sale. A price list is included in the program. "I wrote a play about people in love with their furniture," states Rutherford, "So I figured, why not extend the opportunity for the audience to covet the stuff on stage as much as the characters do?"
The Present Perfect revolves around a cocktail party gone horribly awry: the host plays mind games, the guests molest the furniture, and our protagonist, an eminent interior designer in love with her crystalline art collection, is driven to eat glass. The play dissects the marriage of art and commerce, inviting the viewer to experience first hand the fine line between patron and voyeur.
The Present Perfect features a Gehry-esqe set filled with one of a kind glass art work designed by emerging sculptor Megan Biddle, a RISD alumna who has exhibited her organic "skinscapes" in galleries throughout New York City, in the Czech Republic and Iceland.
The furniture over which the play's characters fawn and froth is a mix futurist and domestotelian designs straight out of a Kubrick film. The costumes (also for available for purchase) include Bespoke-style men's suits and women's couture three piece skirt suits designed by socialite designer Caroline Burwell, whose Burwell New York line has been featured in the pages of the New York Times style section and W magazine. Even the cocktail tumblers and hors d'oeuvres are catalogued for sale.
The production has gone so far as to put the actors on the auction block. "It's not anything an actor is unfamiliar with," says Co-Producer Jason Schuler, "and it fits the themes that Ms. Rutherford is exploring rather aptly." Unfortunately for prospective buyers, the actors have already been sold as part of a gala event benefiting the production.
The Present Perfect was presented
April 26th - May 14th, 2007
atThe Brick Theater
575 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York
