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The CRY HAVOC Lab is a program aimed at elucidating the “big picture” questions about how the theater-making process functions.  Work in the Lab is focused on the hypothesis-based investigation of elements central to theatrical storytelling– such as information delivery, acting process, directing style, and design choices – through the structured, sequenced exploration of a specific play or project. More than a place to make plays happen, it is a place to explore how plays are made.

Projects currently under development include:

Bank & Trust – by Kitt Lavoie, with Peter Crosby and Kerry Flanagan. An actor-driven exploration of the role that gender plays in the relationship of the two characters – with an actor and actress rehearsing the play first as written, then swapping roles. Additional actors may be added to rehearse the play as encounters between two men and two women.

Mikey Wears Braces – by Jennifer Reichert, with Sarah Curtis and Timothy Davis. An exploration of the ways that the choice of theme for a production (i.e., what the artists decide the play is primarily “about”) affects the process and product by rehearsing the play in five stages – each stage focused on a different theme inherent in the text.

realer than that – written and directed by Kitt Lavoie, with Josh Bywater and Aubyn Philabaum. An exploration the role that the audience’s physical relationship to the action affects the way a play is received, with the play staged several ways with the same actors - for a proscenium space, a thrust space, an alley space, and “in the round".