Redbeard & Domicella
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
Readbeard & Domicella – a first play by neighbor Kasia Nikhamina (who writes of one of our favorite blogs – The Mayor’s Hotel) is on show this June at the Brick Theater in Williamsburg, as part of the Too Soon Festival. Ilya Nikhamin, aka Brooklyn Bike guru, twelveicat and Kasia’s husband, is co-starring in it, with Bodine Alexander of Bed-Stuy.
There will be 5 performances in June – the first is June 5th. Tickets are already on sale…and the G train from Church Ave runs straight to the theater! From the press release:
In Redbeard & Domicella, two high school sweethearts deliver a bold retrospective of their young marriage in “he said, she said” fashion. The witty, irrepressible Redbeard works in a bicycle shop near Brighton Beach; the slightly-built, titanic-hearted Domicella splits her time between a desk at the District Attorney’s Office, and the kitchen table where she writes. The play speaks (too soon?) about instances of loss as disparate as September 11th and Michael Jackson’s death, as well as Domicella’s own close scrape on the wild streets of New York.
Redbeard & Domicella is a true story. “If I were to write a book about us,” the real Redbeard told the real Domicella, “I would call it, The Old Man and the Noise.” And so the noise set out to write the story of the old man and the noise, using things they said and things they overheard. This is an ode between man and wife, a collage of quotes, iconic objects and memories. It is also a celebration of the bicycle, a symbol of survival in a city that suffers hard but laughs harder. (Photo of Bodine Alexander and Ilya Nikhamin by Kat Cheng).
Starring Bodine Alexander as Domicella and Ilya Nikhamin as Redbeard
Written by Kasia Nikhamina
Directed by Michael Rau
Sound by Abe DolingerREDBEARD & DOMICELLA will run Saturday, June 5 at 6pm, Tuesday, June 8 at 7pm, Saturday, June 12 at 7pm, Sunday, June 13 at 4:30pm and Wednesday, June 16 at 9pm as part of the Too Soon Festival at The Brick (575 Metropolitan Avenue between Union Avenue and Lorimer Street, Brooklyn). Tickets ($18) may be purchased online at www.bricktheater.com or by calling 1-866-811-4111.
KASIA NIKHAMINA is the author of the creative prose blog, The Mayor’s Hotel . Redbeard & Domicella is her first play. Her work has been featured at Hearth Gods, a reading series at Jimmy’s No. 43 in the East Village. Her one-act, Two men be in the park, is in production as part of a series of plays about Central Park, directed by Darragh Martin (The Invisible Company). She received the Philolexian Prize for her novella, Quixota, from Columbia University, where she earned her B.A. in Comparative Literature and Society in 2007. She attended Stuyvesant High School, where she directed Open Mics. She has published poems and stories in Rattapallax, The Brooklyn Review, The Columbia Review, The Birch, and Poetry in Performance.
ILYA NIKHAMIN is “Brooklyn’s best bike guru,” according to the Village Voice. Until recently he worked at Roy’s Sheepshead Cycle. He is an actor, photographer, and general man of wit. He also sears a fierce chicken and brews a tomato soup that holds the winter at bay.
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