Join us at the launch party!
Saturday September 29
- 7:00 Cocktail Party in the Gallery
- 8:00 Chelsea Girl- A Surrealist Operetta (written & produced in 24 hours!)
- Intermission: The Rhino Head fashion show, voting for the Apollinaire Prize & silent auction
- Following the Show: Dessert & Coffee in the Gallery
$50 Admission includes complimentary cocktails & hors d'oeuvres.
Chelsea Theatre Works, 189 Winnisimmet St. Chelsea. Directions.
Due to the participation of over 40 artists, seating is extremely limited & tickets will sell out early. You can purchase tickets on-line or by phone: 617/887-2336. For information call or email tz@theatrezone.org.
Chelsea Girl
"Chelsea Girl" will be a "24-hour" theater production based on the life of our beloved Ida Rudolph, a lifelong resident of Chelsea. If you know Ida at all (if you've seen a show at the Chelsea Theatre Works, perhaps you've met her working behind the bar), you know she has a treasure trove of stories -- from the tragic to the hilarious. Over the course of September 28-29, a group of 30 actors, musicians, and visual artists will be challenged to turn those tales into a dramatic piece.
On Friday, September 28, the artists will meet at the theater at 6:30 to begin their interview with Ida. After collecting Ida's reminiscences, they will split into six teams. At 8:00 on Friday each team will begin their 24-hour challenge to turn a different one of Ida's stories into a short theater piece.
Rhino Head fashion show
We have also challenged a group of 14 visual artists to create new works
from the rhinoceros masks designed by artist Emily Getchell for our
summer '06 production of Rhinoceros. The artists will work under the
theme "Surreal '07."
The Rhino Heads will be on display in our Gallery, and available in a silent auction. During intermission, audience members will see the Rhino Heads modeled in a fashion show, and will vote to select the Apollinaire Prize winners (first prize $500, 2nd prize $300, 3rd prize $200).
The Apollinaire Prize is sponsored by Chelsea Bank.
Apollinaire Theatre Company?
In 1995 we created a new company and named it TheatreZone, for the
location where we produced our plays: the intersection of the Theatre
District and the Combat Zone. Soon after, we began searching Chelsea
for a place to create a new performing arts center, and in 1999 we
purchased our historic building in Chelsea Square.
After four years of fundraising and renovations, we began our first season at the Chelsea Theatre Works. Yet the prohibitive costs of bringing a 100-year-old building up to code, and making it fully accessible, kept us under constant threat of closure. Now that our elevator is installed, we are celebrating the success and survival of our permanent home. We are changing our name, from one that represents our past to one that inspires our future -- Apollinaire Theatre Company.
Poet Guillaume Apollinaire was one of the leaders of an explosion of artistic activity in the early 20th century which resulted in the modern art movement in painting, dance, music, sculpture, and theatre. Apollinaire coined the term Surrealism, which he applied to his only play Les Mamelles de Tiresias. The revolutionary artistic energy of Apollinaire and his contemporaries -Cocteau, Jarry, Picasso, Chagall, to name a few- and their risky, wildly creative, and collaborative theatre works serve as both an inspiration and challenge as we reenvision ourselves as Apollinaire Theatre Company.
Henri Rousseau - "Apollinaire and His Muse"
