PERFORMANCES
July 11 & 12 at 7 p.m.
DARK DINING PROJECTS: "SEASON"
a multi-course banquet/performance installation. Local foods served to BLINDFOLDED guests, set in an olfactory, tactile, and sonic landscape
Creator/Director: Dana Salisbury
!!! LIMITED SEATING !!!!
Reservations required. Tickets: $48/45
July 13 at 8 p.m.
NANABOZHO
The Mettawee River Theatre Company's all-ages event, based on a Native American creation myth, outdoors with giant puppets and live music
Tickets: $8 Adults/$5 Children
July 18-20 FRi, SAT & SUN at 8 p.m. PLUS Special matinees
Sat & Sun at 2 p.m.
MILK-N-HONEY
from New York City, LightBox's powerful look at politics and pleasures of eating. All performances will be followed by the AFTER SHOW CAFE, a dynamic, discussion forum with special invited experts.
Tickets:$20/18/15
July 25-27 FRi & SAT at 8 p.m.,
SUN at 4 p.m.
HEARTS AND TONGUES
A theatrical contemplation of humankind's relationship to the natural world and the role the senses play in this sublime, contentious and ever-evolving exchange.
Created & performed by Temple Crocker & Annie Kunjappy.
Lighting by Sabrina Hamilton
Tickets: $18/15
August 1-3 FRi & SAT at 8 p.m.,
SUN at 4 p.m.
SONGS OF HIUNGER & SATISFACTION
Cabaret singer Belle Linda Halpern returns to KoFest with a funny, intriguing and profound Jewish-American take on our constant craving – hunger for food, sex, acceptance and fame -- and for true nourishment.
directed by Sabrina Hamilton
Tickets: $18/15
additional event:
August 8-10 FRi & SAT at 8 p.m.,
SUN at 4 p.m.
2/3
Two short plays, Me and Bobby McGee and
Lugnuts of the Soul for three actors by Peter Lobdell, Chair of the Amherst College Department of Theatre and Dance
Tickets: $18/15
Milk-N-Honey
presents the
17th Annual
Each summer the Festival is curated on a theme. Past seasons have included "Stories of Illness and Healing" and "The Immigrant's Journey." This season we gather to contemplate FOOD.
We will indulge our palates and awaken our senses with a DARK-DINING PROJECTS event featuring local foods. The politics of food are at the core of LightBox's MILK-N-HONEY, a piece that is the result of three years of research and interviews with flavor scientists, farmers, dumpster-diving "freegans," diabetics and many others. In HEARTS AND TONGUES we will attempt to sort through the chaos of information and experience to understand man's sublime, contentious and ever-evolving relationship with the natural world, while SONGS OF HUNGER AND SATISFACTION will use the power of song to give us a visceral experience of the control our desires and appetites have over us.
All of these performances are accompanied by lobby displays that contextualize the work and by facilitated, post-performance discussions that provide opportunities for inter-audience/artist exchange and civic dialogue.
In addition, we have two special events: our annual all-ages outdoor event with the beloved Mettawee River Theatre Company - this year with a classical Native American trickster tale, and 2/3 - two short plays for three actors by Amherst College's Peter Lobdell.
LOGISTICS
THE BOX OFFICE OPENS JULY 7. Tel: (413) 542-3750.
Prior to that call (413) 427-6147 or click HERE to contact us via email.
All performances, except the Mettawee River Theatre Company's take place in the Holden Theatre on the Amherst College campus, which is located right behind the Admission office off of South Pleasant Street.
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INTERNSHIPS
Internships are still available for this summers festival. For further information click HERE.
"In the great variety of summer theater in this region, Ko Theater Works' five-week festival of performance art is unique. Here alone can we venture beyond the literal, lateral, plot-centered theater into worlds where the only certainty is surprise." -The Valley Advocate
