Start creating a new work of theatre from a classic fairy tale, and you might find yourself taking a detour through the “back to the land” movement, and wind up with a movement play full of original music, lovely light projections, and a manatee mask.
That’s an oversimplified way to describe Rady & Bloom‘s The Upper Room, currently playing at The New Ohio—but it’s a whole lot more than that.
Listen in as the Rady & Bloom, Brian Rady and Jeremy Bloom, along with composer/performer Catherine Brookman, discuss collaboration between song-writer and directors/creators, post-show parties, The Little Mermaid, working with your spouse, and the long haul.
“…there’s a thrust, there is a story, but we’re trying to express the inexpressible, we’re trying to express the feeling of, ‘what will happen next to me,’ or ‘what will happen to US…'”
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Rady & Bloom and The New Ohio present
The Upper Room
written & directed by Jeremy Bloom & Brian Rady
music by Catherine Brookman
thru June 12, 2015
Tuesday–Saturday @8PM
The New Ohio Theatre
154 Christopher Street
Manhattan
tickets: $18, available via Vendini
photo by Matthew Wells
photos by James Matthew Daniel