Previous Show:
Love and Information by Caryl Churchull
presents 40+ short (and very short) plays in one hour. The pieces explore what it means to know and not know, memories, and ideas just beyond our grasp.
The cast featured Joseph Barcia, Suzanne Bell, Andy Cowen, Maddy Friedman, and Marie Pellett. Directed by Jeremy Sarachan
What if your mother wasn't your mother? What if a child didn't feel fear? Can you fire someone over e-mail? Are mathematicians fun at parties? The dialogue flows between relationships, secrets, and discovery.
Performed at the School of the Arts Black Box Theater during the 2018 Rochester Fringe Festival. Photos by Annette Dragon.
Previous Show:
Home of the Brave: Stories of Life In the Trump Era
features eight short plays by Rochester residents (or Rochester natives) about life post-election 2016. The story tell of becoming an activist, considering the violent history of our nation, and looking into the far future to see where we might be headed.
The plays featured Anita Bartolotta, Robert Cox, Vince Gaetano, Katie Kreutter, Jackson Mosher, Marie Pellett, Eva Sarachan, and Bob Shea.
Plays were written by Joseph Barcia, Katherine Clifford, Jack Florek, R Emmett Michie, Mikaley Osley, Jessy Randall, Maria Sanguedolce, and Jeremy Sarachan.
Directed by Jeremy Sarachan and stage managed by Vince Gaetano.
Performed at Writers and Books during the 2017 Rochester Fringe Festival. Photos by Annette Dragon.
Previous Show:
Far Away by Caryl Churchill
tells the story of a girl left with her aunt as the world falls into an absurd, violent dystopia.
The play takes the audience from the mysterious to absurdist to tragedy as a world turned upside down by violence and war takes over.
The play featured Joseph Barcia, Barbara Lobb, and Hannah Pisher.
Directed by Jeremy Sarchan and stage managed by Dave Zumchak.
Performed at MuCCC during the 2016 Rochester Fringe Festival.
Documentary:
Active Voices: Gun Reform Activism in Rochester, NY
This documentary will chronicle the rise of activism related to gun reform in Rochester, New York, after the Parkland Shooting in February 2018.
Documenting rallies and interviews with activists, student-activists, and academics, the film will examine the state of America's gun laws and why now may be a time of great change.
The film includes interview with spoken word artists, theater actors, and other activists.
Upcoming interactive documentary:
The Web is Air: Fighting for Net Neutrality (working title)
This short film will consider how the web is categoized, as a form of entertainment or a public good, and why that distinction is crucial to a free internet.
Animations will serve to explain the intracies of net neutrality and how its demise could affect both our pocketbook and our democracy.
For more information, contact Jeremy Sarchan at jeremysarachan at gmail dot com or on Twitter
or like the Theater Apparatus Facebook Page.
In film studies, Apparatus Theory states that all production is ideological since the mechanics of production attempt to produce reality in a way that depicts the hegemonic view of the world. Theater Apparatus tries to look at ideology in the eye.