RI
Strange Attractor Theatre Co. is Aram Aghazarian (Philadelphia, PA), Roblin Gray Davis (Juneau, AK), Jed Hancock-Brainerd (Providence, RI) and Rebecca Noon (Providence, RI). Together we create inviting and unexpected performance in our three home states: Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, and Alaska. We challenge the popular conception of live theatre while engaging new audiences with original, high-caliber, physically devised work by drawing from our shared training at the London International School of Performing Arts, and reinventing the classic styles of clown, melodrama, commedia, absurd and grotesque, while staring unflinchingly at the darkest spots of humanity to uncover the sublime, the foolish, and the ridiculous. Our physically-based performance style, the diverse universes we explore, and the hilarious characters we discover, unnerve while entertaining and confound while delighting.
Since forming in 2010 Strange Attractor has created six full-length shows: 2010’s F.orward O.perating B.ase, a quick-change comedy about war and torture created and performed in Juneau for the Perseverance Second Stage; 2010’s Special Happy, an absurdist birthday party thrown for the entire audience created and performed in Providence, RI for Perishable Theatre and the Wilbury Group; 2011’s If You Shoot A Boot You Might Get Wet, which follows the lives of two insufferable eccentrics living in a house of suitcases and was created and performed in Providence as a co-production with Spanish company Rompecabezas; A Terrific Fire, an environmental immersive performance, part haunted house, part adventure novel, based on Ibsen’s Brand, developed with Juneau’s Perseverance Theatre, Providence’s 95 Empire and Perishable Theatre; 2013's Enlightenment on E Floor North, an investigation into invisible American workers through the lens of the museum security guard, developed in Rhode Island, Maine, Philadelphia, and Southeast Alaska; and 2015's Idle, a site-specific Christmas pageant performed in July in a private home in Newport, RI.
Our current show-in-development is Sans Everything, which is a collaboration between Strange Attractor and Philadelphia theatre company Lightning Rod Special, follows a spaceship of botanists compelled to perform As You Like It for reasons they cannot fathom. Set so far in the future that Shakespeare has been forgotten, Sans Everything imagines a world without stories and the dangerous results of bringing them back.
Our design work has also been commissioned by Providence's RISD Museum and AS220.
Additional Content:
Excerpts from two pieces, A Terrific Fire and Enlightenment on E Floor North
Trailer for 2015's "Idle" 2015
"Enlightenment on E Floor North" Trailer 2013
Strange Attractor takes on the fraught discussion of employment by examining the museum security guard in Enlightenment on E Floor North.
"A Terrific Fire" Trailer 2012
Part haunted house and part adventure novel, A Terrific Fire follows Dr. Wishniak, a Victorian mind scientist fraught with anachronisms, on his quest for wild living. Based on Ibsen's "Brand."
"If You Shoot a Boot You Might Get Wet" Trailer 2011
The apocalypse has come and gone and all that’s left is a house made of suitcases amid a sea of junk and two eccentrics trying to make the best of it.
Like a mad-hatter tea-party in reverse, Special Happy throws the audience an absurd birthday party complete with pizza, presents, and cake.
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Performing Group
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Nonprofit - Unincorporated
Year Founded:
2010
Institution/Business Type:
Performing Group
Legal Status:
Nonprofit - Unincorporated
Year Founded:
2010
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Theater - Devised / Artist-LedAdditional Disciplines:
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$25Ages Served:
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$8,000 - $30,000State of Residence:
Rhode IslandMinimum Number of Performers:
2Maximum Number of Performers:
15