Articles Tagged With: Single Carrot Theatre

Kiss Me, Mr. Musk: A Climate Change Parable at Single Carrot Theatre

Kiss Me, Mr. Musk at Single Carrot Theatre

Reviews August 24, 2022 Joshua Bermont

Experimental, absurd, and downright surreal new works seem to be dominating playhouses lately, and why not? If art reflects the times in which it is conceived, then it’s no wonder that the larger-than-life senselessness we’ve collectively been adrift in for the past several years has provoked playwrights and directors to express themselves in weirder ways, eschewing formal dramatic structures and revivals of familiar shows for endeavors which feel more like cultural primal screams.

Pieces meant to confuse and challenge us – to shake us out of our complacency and remind us of the horribly high stakes of just being alive at this precarious point in history.

Trash Talk: An Interview with Single Carrot Theatre’s B Kleymeyer and Kolton Cotton about Kiss Me, Mr. Musk

Interviews August 16, 2022 Amanda N. Gunther

You’re gonna need a bigger boat. No, it’s not Jaws: The Musical (but I’m sure that’s coming…just look at Back To The Future: The Musical headed to Broadway in spring of 2023)…but you are definitely going to need a bigger boat if sea levels rise and Baltimore City becomes flooded. Perhaps Papa Bezos will lend you his space-rocket or let you rent out his penthouse suite at the new Moon Hotel.

Every Brilliant Thing at Single Carrot Theatre

Reviews September 9, 2021 Amanda N. Gunther

The refreshing scent of a freshly shredded pile of pine mulch.

Strolling through the I-83 Farmer’s Market with my mother at 7:00am every Sunday morning from

April through December.

24,601. A cat that will sit on your yoga mat while you’re trying to do downward dog and meow loudly.

525,600. Live Theatre.

I never thought I’d ever have to include “live theatre” as one of the ‘brilliant things’ in my life;

Mr. Wolf at Single Carrot Theatre

Reviews September 12, 2019 Amanda N. Gunther

Is the universe actually infinite? Or is infinite a generic designation
we apply to whatever it is that we don’t understand? Ponderous thoughts, deeply
vexing, and entirely not my own. They spring from the pen-eternal of playwright
Rajiv Joseph in his work Mr. Wolf, now an immersive theatrical
experience with Single Carrot Theatre. Directed by Genevieve de Mahy and Lauren
Erica Jackson, Mr. Wolf is taking on an infinite life of its own inside
The Rectory of St.

Lear at Single Carrot Theatre

Reviews October 6, 2017 Amanda N. Gunther

People always find terrible ways to justify doing horrible things. But we enjoy watching horrible things; it gives us a feeling of immortality. We, however, are not immortal. Life is short. And the time that we spend with our loved ones is mostly behind us. Single Carrot Theatre opens their 11th season here in Baltimore with Young Jean Lee’s Lear, a peculiar exploration of familial dysfunction threaded loosely within the confines of Shakespeare’s King Lear.

Samsara at Single Carrot Theatre

Reviews January 20, 2017 Amanda N. Gunther

We’re born.

We live.

We die.

We come back as something else.

That is the cycle death and rebirth to which life in the material world is bound.

Samsara.

The Hindu and Buddhist belief of the above cycle, now readily incarnate in the thespian belief of performance by way of playwright Lauren Yee. Now appearing on the Single Carrot Theatre mainstage as a part of Season X: A Love Letter to Baltimore.

Review: Savage/Love at Single Carrot Theatre

Reviews October 28, 2016 Amanda N. Gunther

From the first moment I saw it, I knew I could love it, if it could love me. And love it I did, Single Carrot Theatre’s first offering of their 10th Anniversary season: Savage/Love by Sam Shepard & Joseph Chaikin. When we’re tangled up in love it’s easy to experience all the flavors and sensations of the limitless emotional potential that life has to offer. Capturing the dizzying dervish of love and all of its varieties,

Review: Midlife at Single Carrot Theatre

Reviews June 7, 2016 Amanda N. Gunther

Life is slippery, like a fish’s tail. The harder you grab it the les of it you have in your hands. When life begins to slip away from your grasp, it isn’t always in the physical, tangential realm. What happens when the mind slips away from you? What becomes of your life’s story then? Are you two trains on diverting tracks tearing apart at the seams or are you an extraordinary fantasy fated for collision with the brutal harsh reality that is your mortal existence?

Review: Something Like Jazz Music at Single Carrot Theatre

Reviews March 7, 2016 Amanda N. Gunther

Nothing is our own, not even knowledge and life is far too short to sit at home and fold fitted sheets. Toss down the washing, pick up a tot of gin on your way in, and hotfoot it on over to Single Carrot Theatre for their annual devised ensemble-based work. Written by Genevieve De Mahy, Conceived by Single Carrot Theatre, and Directed by Alix Fenhagen and Steven Krigel, this expressive and movement-based work explores lost stories of the 1920’s locale as filtered through the objects that captured their memories.

Review: Year of the Rooster at Single Carrot Theatre

Reviews December 10, 2015 Amanda N. Gunther

Nothing can hurt you when you’re a rooster. Except another rooster. A blood-thirsty, hormone-pumped, cock-fighting rooster who has defeated the sun. Fight night is tonight, sun! You bring your little chickadee on down to Single Carrot Theatre to see their regional premiere of Year of the Rooster, written by Eric Dufault. Directed by Dustin C. T. Morris, this provocative drama may be the most straight-forward piece of theatre to be mounted upon STC’s stage in years.

Playing with Playwrights: An Interview with Ryan Nicotra about Circle Circle Dot Dot

Interviews December 3, 2015 Amanda N. Gunther

Circle, circle, dot, dot— now you’ve got your cootie shot! A fond recollection for a great many of the Gen-Y kids, but what does that mean in this modern world of sexual fluidity and polyamorous relationships? Playwright Ryan Nicotra, the Founder of BOOM Theatre Company sits down to explain his new work Circle Circle Dot Dot in a TheatreBloom exclusive interview. See what Ryan has to say on polyamorous relationships and why he’s chosen theatre as his platform to broaden the experience.

Review: Phoebe in Winter at Single Carrot Theatre

Reviews September 26, 2015 Amanda N. Gunther

Things must be allowed to occur in their own natural time. In keeping true to that sentiment, the Season 9 opening show at Single Carrot Theatre, a part of the Women’s Voices Theater Festival, moves along in not only its own natural time but its own natural world. A world of chaos and war beyond that of a global perspective, deep in our hearts and homes, Phoebe in Winter brings an evocative examination of the roles we play in our lives,

The Revelation of a Playwright: An Interview with Rich Espey

Interviews March 21, 2015 Amanda N. Gunther

An inconvenient truth always beats a pretty lie in the long run. The central conceit— and cleverly coined phrase— of Baltimore playwright Rich Espey’s new work The Revelation of Bobby Pritchard. Making its world premier at Iron Crow Theatre, this engaging and compelling drama reveals a great many truths which are in need of being told. In a TheatreBloom exclusive, we sit down with the playwright to talk about the inspiration behind the story and just how it all came to fruition.

#WEIRDFRANCE: An Interview with the Three Leading Actors

Interviews March 3, 2015 Amanda N. Gunther

Whet your appetite a little further on this curious cuisine of surrealist normalcy in an absurdist reality. In Part 2 of #weirdfrance, TheatreBloom continues its quest to learn about all the crazy things happening in the Cohesion Theatre Company production of 13 Dead Husbands. This time we’ve gathered the three leading men, Thomas Sinn, Bobby Henneburg, and Matthew Payne, to hear their take on #weirdfrance.

If you fellas can give us a quick introduction,

Review: References to Salvador Dalì Make Me Hot at Single Carrot Theatre

Reviews January 9, 2015 Amanda N. Gunther

The universe is an optical illusion. Domesticity verses wildlife; the age-long endless battle of which is natural and which is right. Single Carrot Theatre investigates this controversial topic with their production of Josè Rivera’s References to Salvador Dalì Make Me Hot. Directed by Steven J. Satta, this surrealist work based in reality with hints of magical realism and dream-escapism lives up to the standard of the typical Carrot productions: making you think whilst spinning you about in blissful confusion.

Review: Social Creatures at Single Carrot Theatre

Reviews October 10, 2014 Amanda N. Gunther

Warning: The theatre is no longer safe. The infection has spread. There are rules to follow to remain safe and save what remains of mankind. Follow the rules and you might survive. Single Carrot Theatre is no longer safe. Social Creatures is taking over. Instructions for basic survival as well as all dialogue witnessed inside the containment collective has been documented by Jackie Sibblies Drury. Kellie Mecleary previously served as a director of operations,

Review: White Suit Science at Single Carrot Theatre

Reviews September 5, 2014 Amanda N. Gunther

Ladies and gentlemen! Step right up! The circus has come to town! Only, not exactly. Hold onto your brain-balls, it’s about to get a little bit “thinky” over at Single Carrot Theatre as they launch the first production of a brand new initiative called their ‘Featured Second Series.’ Existing outside of the Carrots’ 8th season, this second series will serve as a theatrical incubator; a safe space for shows that take big risks on tiny budgets.