Sara Farrington
SARA FARRINGTON is a playwright and co-founder of Foxy Films, her theater company with director Reid Farrington. Her most recent piece is BrandoCapote. More on her work can be found at ladyfarrington.com.
In Conversation
SEAN DONOVAN with Sara Farrington
The Reception is this hypnotic dance theater piece about an eerily unraveling party where guests nightmarishly repeat stories and gestures, stopping short when they hear the room creak, like ship rigging ready to snap. I fell in love with The Reception, felt lucky to watch it develop over three years.
Power & Punk: New York's Avant Garde Lifers
By Sara FarringtonMy inaugural interview is with Kate Valk, who has worked with the legendary Wooster Group since 1979. Valk and founding director Elizabeth LeCompte are New York's avant garde elder stateswomen, defining and redefining experimental theater for a generation.
Power & Punk: New York's Avant-Garde Lifers: Richard Foreman with Sara Farrington
By Sara FarringtonThe theater has always been the most backward of all the arts. Because on the surface the theater seems most life-like, I suppose.
In Conversation
Power & Punk: New York's Avant-garde Lifers
Mac Wellman with Sara Farrington
My interview for this issue is with playwright Mac Wellman. Over the course of his nearly 50 year career as a writer, Wellman has taken the form of playwriting and bounced it around the room like a kid with a Super Ball. He is prolific, his voice unmistakable, his plays feats of contemporary playwriting, a modern-day Beckett.
