DECOMPOSITIONS

03Feb2023
05Feb2023

At Plains School

DECOMPOSITIONS

 

PORTSMOUTH NH:  February 3 - 5, Pontine Theatre presents guest artist, Tannis Kowalchuk, performing an original one-woman show, Decompositions, at Pontine’s 1845 Plains Schoolhouse Theatre, located at #1 Plains Avenue in Portsmouth NH.  Tickets may be purchased online at www.pontine.org — Performances are scheduled for Friday at 7pm, Saturday at 3pm and Sunday at 2pm.  Free parking is available onsite.  

In the original song-filled, multi-media production, Decompositions, Tannis Kowalchuk performs monologues and stories exploring the composting process as a metaphor for life.  The one-woman show opens with a compost pile set center stage, as Tannis invokes an entry to the action with excerpts from a Gertrude Stein essay, Composition as Explanation. The play features personal stories, each describing a step in the process of decomposition...germination, rot, phosphorescence...Decompositions explores questions that arise in mid-life. 

Theatre artist, flower farmer, and co-owner of Willow Wisp Organic Farm. Tannis has directed and performed in over thirty original  productions in the US and Canada. Current projects include the annual Dream on the FarmStone Soup Cooking ClassShakespeare on the Farm, and Decompositions. Prior to founding Farm Arts Collective, she was a founding co-artistic director of NACL Theatre with whom she created The Weather Project and Courage. 

 

Produced by Farm Arts Collective, the Decompositions premiered in 2022 at the Delaware Valley Opera Center in Lake Huntington, NY.  A 2023 tour includes engagements at Pontine Theatre in Portsmouth, NH, Bernie Wohl Theatre at Goddard Riverside, NYC, and Clear Creek Creative in Big Hill, KY.

Farm Arts Collective is an Agri-Cultural Hub where art and performance intersect with agrarian and ecological ideas. Farm Arts Collective makes its home in a large greenhouse centrally located at their home, Willow Wisp Organic Farm, a solar-powered organic vegetable farm located in Damascus, PA, that serves northeast Pennsylvania, the Catskills, and New York City. 

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