All Out Repertory Company, in conjunction with the Artists and Writers Group, present The Agreeable Husband, a collaborative performance piece based on Amy Vanderbilt’s 1950s Complete Book of Etiquette, at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, April 3rd, 2009. This premiere performance of The Agreeable Husband is one of the mainstage events at the 2009 Ybor Festival of the Moving Image, which runs April 1-5 at The HCC Ybor campus, on the corner of Palm Avenue and 15th Street.
The Agreeable Husband is a live collaborative performance, featuring theater, dance, art, music, recorded video, and a live Jazz Combo. Choreographer Shana Perkins and director Ami Sallee Corley brought this piece to life based on Perkin’s mother’s original 1958 edition of The Complete Book of Etiquette, which was a household name in her youth. The show is at once a reminiscent journey into dating and marriage in the 50s as well as a humorous reflection on why future generations turned out the way we did.
Choreographed by Shana Perkins (A member of Moving Current, head of dance at Orange Grove Middle Magnet and last seen on the theatrical stage in Jane Eyre at The Gorilla) and directed by Ami Sallee Corley (Jobsite Theater, Gorilla Theatre, The Patel Conservatory, Creative Loafing’s Best of the Bay Best Actress, 2007 and Best Director, 2003), with art direction by Christopher Rutherford. Celebrated jazz pianist James Crumbly conducts the live music while artwork from Spencer Paul Meyers and Betty Jane Parks contribute to the storyline, played out through dance and theater by Katrina Asmar, Marion Baldeon, Casey Hicks, Bryn Lenny and Tina Tidwell.
The Agreeable Husband marks the debut performance for Tampa’s newest arts organization, All Out Repertory Company. All Out Rep is a production company and producing resource for collaborations in all art forms, emphasizing shared resources and shared audiences, educational components and exposure to other arts markets through a touring capacity.
The goal of The Agreeable Husband is to tour through the bay area and Florida in fall of 2009 while work-shopping the piece and ultimately launch an east coast tour in spring of 2010.
The Agreeable Husband
Premiere Performance
Ybor Festival of the Moving Image
April 3, 2009
7:30 p.m.
HCC Ybor Mainstage Theater
Tickets $10 General
Free to HCC students, faculty and staff
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