ENCOUNTERS (IN A NON LUCID STATE)

ENCOUNTERS (IN A NON LUCID STATE)
Rising Sun Performance Company

In most zero budget theater, the first big challenge for the actors is to compensate for the lack of elaborate costumes, sets, and even furniture, by willing everything -- their entire world -- into existence with their imagination. The biggest challenge for directors is to NOT let the actors overcompensate for the void by overacting. (NOTE: Improv, where worlds are created out of nothing in each moment, is great preparation.)

Of the five short plays in ENCOUNTERS (IN A NON LUCID STATE), performed by the Rising Sun Performance Company, the most successful was the genuinely original, fun, and funny RESIDUE, in which a young woman tries to gain control of her dreams. It is played in a series of short-short scenes in-between the other short plays. And it gets funnier as it goes along. It is nicely played by Anastasia Peterson.

Anastasia Peterson in RESIDUE
Photo by Akia Squitieri

ENCOUNTERS (IN A NON LUCID STATE) plays at the Red Room (upstairs from the Kraine Theater) 85 E. 4th St. (at 2nd Ave), through August 21.


CREDITS

"Residue"
BY Stacey Lane
Tim Butterfield (DIR)
Anastasia Peterson as Eleanor
Jason Vinoles as Leon
and with Maria Elekidou

"Meet Up"
BY Thomas J. Misuraca
Tiffany Hogan (DIR)
Becky Sterling Rygg as Cyndee
Maria Guillen as Jane
Christopher Schwartz as the Waiter

"Cookies"
BY John Patrick Bray
Leal Vona (DIR)
Becky Sterling Rygg as Darla
Michael Lee Jones as Walter
Allison Whittinghill as Tara

"Binge Honeymoon"
BY Rebecca Jane Stokes
Kelly Hawkins (DIR)
Anthony Mead as Ted
Becky Sterling Rygg as Darla

"Shakespeare Lives!"
BY Mark Harvey Levine
Tim Chaffee (DIR)
Michael Lee Jones as Zombie Will
Jason Vinoles as Cashio
Jonathan Reed Wexler as Guard

Produced by: Horse TRADE Theater Group and Rising Sun Performance Company One-Acts Literary Coordinator: Alexia Tate
Director of Photography/Video: David Anthony
Costume and Properties Designer: Leigh-Ann Ryklin

CREW
Production Manager: Lindsay Beecher
Production Stage Manager: Jak Prince
House Managers: Theresa Calves, Flor Bromley
Run Crew & Board Operators: Jessica Ritacco, Samantha Cooper, Carly Colbert, Jak Prince, Leigh-Ann Ryklin, Dan Vidor, Patrick Egan
Publicist: Emily Owens PR
Program Publisher: United Stages
Postcard Designer: Akia