Performance for One
Written and directed by Edward Einhorn
Originally developed with Yvonne Roen
Currenty being presented virtually, on demand
This 25-minute one-on-one performance by Yvonne Roen is available on demand for $25. Contact us at email performancefor1@gmail.com if you are interested in booking a slot, with some possible times of availability.
Payments for the performance can be made here
ORIGINALLY PERFORMED:
Online, with Eliuzabeth Chappel, Joshua Wolf Coleman, and Yvonne Roen, from March - June 2020
The performance is about memory, but even more so, it is about relationship between performer, audience member, and author. What is the responsibility of the audience member, and how is it felt differently when there is only one audience member? Who is the story teller, the author or the performer? What happens to a memory that two people share after one of those people is gone?
IN PERSON:
With a rotating cast of actors, including Elizabeth Chappel, Joshua Coleman, Andrea Gallo, Jan Leslie Harding, Allison Hiroto, Yvonne Roen, and Melissa Rakiro.
Performance for One Part 2, a sequel to the first, is available at all performances with Yvonne Roen, for those who want to experience it. Those are currently scheduled for September 6, 8, 21, and 28; October 10, 13,and 20; and November 3.
Played at the following venues:
September 6 - 8
Chashama, 21 Greenwich Ave
September 21 - 22
Governor’s Island/Dysfunctional Collective,
Colonels Row House 410A
September 25
Broadway Community Mall
north side of 96th and Broadway
September 28 - 29
Governor’s Island/Dysfunctional Collective,
Colonels Row House 410A
October 5 Sat
Word Up Community Bookshop,
2113 Amsterdam Ave at 165th St
October 10 - 13
Chashama, 266 W. 37th Street
October 17 - 20
Art in Odd Places: 2019 Invisible, underneath the High Line at 14th Street
November 3
Torn Page, 435 W. 22nd Street
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council
as well the Schapiro Fund,
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
New York State Council on the Arts
Reviews
"Einhorn excels at the meaningfully meta; in his plays medium never overpowers message, though they do dance divinely...in the role of the storyteller Elizabeth Chappel was a careful and compelling bearer of these fragile flickers from the past, and the fulness of human warmth and emotional forthrightness it takes to incarnate them."
— Adam McGovern,
HiLoBrow
“Potent...I liked that this show acknowledges a theater audience is not passive. We’re not mere vessels being casually filled by the art. Our brains are whirring. Our emotions are being churned. Things are happening in the audience–sometimes positive, sometimes negative. But it is an active practice."
— Nicole Serrratore,
Exeunt
"Performance For One not only manages to succeed as a highly intellectual show but also as an emotion-packed experience.”