Tusten Theatre
Performing Arts



The award winning Margolis Brown ADAPTORS Company presents its newest original production CYCLOPEDIA. Don’t miss this special opportunity to catch the internationally renowned company before it heads out on tour!
 
On Friday and Saturday, September 19 and 20 at 8 p.m., Margolis Brown ADAPTORS Company invites you to enter the strange and dusty world of CYCLOPEDIA; a phantasmagorical place where all the thoughts, stories, poems, equations, experiments, and doctrines of humanity have found their way. Follow the unpredictable adventures of three odd and ever-changing characters as they forge their way through this sea of man-made madness in search of answers to the oldest and most mysterious questions of all time—who are we, why are we here and where are we going?
 
CYCLOPEDIA celebrates Margolis Brown ADAPTORS dynamic approach to theater and melds a highly charged physicality with multimedia magic and the wry revelation of the extraordinary in the seemingly ordinary. The show is conceived and directed by Kari Margolis; features original music and multimedia by Tony Brown; and is created with and performed by Ian Bivins, Gregory G. Schott, Szilard Varnai with Jarod Hanson.
 
Margolis Brown ADAPTORS Company was founded in NYC in 1984 by artistic directors Kari Margolis and Tony Brown. The team has created and produced 16 original evening-length multimedia, physical theatre productions that have toured nationally and to Barcelona, Berlin, London, Singapore, and throughout Canada and Mexico. They have also created several large-scale, site-specific events for such places at the Brooklyn Museum, the beach at Coney Island, the Minnesota Science Museum and the Roebling Bridge.
 
The company was in residence at the highly acclaimed BACA Downtown Performance Space in NY for several years before opening its own performance space, training center and multimedia studios in downtown Brooklyn in 1988. In 1993, the company relocated to Minneapolis where it has been a leader in the Twin Cities vibrant arts scene, garnering many awards and critical acclaim.
 
In 2004 the company opened an international theatre training and research center in Highland Lake NY, which draws students from around the world for intensive ongoing workshops.
 
The work of Margolis and Brown has been recognized with six fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, a “Bessie” NY Performance Award, a Pew/TCG National Artist Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, a Rockefeller Grant, a Creative Capital National Artist Fellowship, Bush Foundation Fellowships, McKnight Foundation Fellowships, and a Jerome Foundation Travel Grant among many other prestigious awards.
 
After the Tusten Theatre performances, CYCLOPEDIA will tour to Minneapolis, Kansas City, Baltimore, and Barcelona. Next season will see performances in Atlanta, Seattle, and Poland. Margolis offers residencies internationally in her acting method that synthesizes the skills of the actor, director and playwright. For more information about Margolis, Brown, the company, and its training center go to www.margolismethod.org
 
These performances of CYCLOPEDIA benefit Delaware Valley Arts Alliance and Margolis Brown ADAPTORS Company. Tickets are $20 (DVAA members get a $2 discount on advanced sales and student tickets are $15), and may be purchased by calling (845) 252-7272.

The fall season continues with Eric Barsness and Joe Hannan in concert on Sunday, September 28; David Auburn's play Proof on Saturday, October 11; on Saturday, October 25, a new short film by Ragnar Freidank Beautiful Hills of Brooklyn, followed by a discussion with cast and crew; and Music of Our Time, with special guest Sweet Plantain on Saturday, November 1. See times and ticket prices above.

For more information, call the theatre box office at (845) 252-7272.


Cyclopedia