Annoyance Theatre, tape 1
Footage by Tom Palazzolo and Jack Helbig of Mick Napier’s show “Hot Monkey Pie” at Annoyance Theatre in Chicago. The show features actors rapidly switching between different rolls, scenes, and sets.
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Annoyance Theatre, tape 2
Tom Palazzolo and Jack Helbig film an improv rehearsal at Chicago’s Annoyance Theater that is directed by Mick Napier.
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The Artaud Project
Video recording of The Artaud Project at Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago, January 25, 1980. The performance combined a live performance with an actor playing Antonin Artaud with several monitors displaying other footage. Many readings of Artaud’s work are incorporated.
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The Demon Show
“The Demon Show” is a play written and directed by Donna Blue Lachman. This performance was videotaped on May 1, 1986. It portrays the psychological struggles of an artist (Lachman) against her own inner demons. These demons take form in characters representing, for example, Temptation and Self-Contempt. The leitmotif of the film is Lachman’s telephone (it is “broken” as a line of communication to the outside world) and the telephone repair man who “fixes” this communication.
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Frida: The Last Portrait
Donna Blue Lachman performs a one-woman show as Frida Kahlo at the Blue Rider Theatre in Chicago.
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The Language of Birds: Rosa Luxemburg & Me
Donna Blue Lachman performs a one-woman show about Rosa Luxemburg.
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The Thirst
A recording of a performance of a one-woman show written and performed by Donna Blue Lachman about her family and her search for her Jewish faith and identity.
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Family Secrets
A taping of a one-woman show called “Family Secrets” performed by Donna Blue Lachman at the Apple Tree Theatre. Over the course of several costume changes, she plays first the father, then the mother, then the two daughters, then the grandmother of a middle class Jewish-American family.