West Lethargy Web Series Episode 3: Meet the Producing Team!

Meet the writer/director and producing team behind Page 121 Productions' upcoming production of West Lethargy at the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival.

West Lethargy follows the lives of an Old West pioneer couple – Turner and Ellie – as they hit a roadblock on their journey to California when they collide with two contemporary eccentrics – Nugget and Ringle – searching for a long lost brother. In an odd twist of fate, the iconic Empire State Building, standing tall and proud, just might hold the answers for this unlikely quartet.

West Lethargy opens tomorrow – Saturday, August 14, 2010 – at the Kraine Theater in New York. For tickets and additional information, please visit http://www.page121productions.org.

Check back soon to meet the rest of the cast and producing team of this "delightfully absurdist" (The Stage), "energetic and excellent" (Three Weeks) original play!

Podcast on NYTheatre.com

Listen to this insightful FringeNYC podcast on NYTheatre.com, featuring West Lethargy! Stephen Kaliski, who also reviews for NYTheatre.com, talks with 3 other colleagues about the different hats of being a critic and being a producer.

http://www.nytheatrecast.com/episode.php?t=344

West Lethargy Web Series Episode 2: Meet the Rest of the Cast!

Meet the remaining cast members of Page 121 Productions' upcoming production of West Lethargy at the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival.

West Lethargy follows the lives of an Old West pioneer couple – Turner and Ellie – as they hit a roadblock on their journey to California when they collide with two contemporary eccentrics – Nugget and Ringle – searching for a long lost brother. In an odd twist of fate, the iconic Empire State Building, standing tall and proud, just might hold the answers for this unlikely quartet.

West Lethargy opens on Saturday, August 14, 2010, at the Kraine Theater in New York. For tickets and additional information, please visit http://www.page121productions.org.

Check back soon to meet the rest of the cast and producing team of this "delightfully absurdist" (The Stage), "energetic and excellent" (Three Weeks) original play!

West Lethargy Web Series Episode 1: Meet the Cast!

Meet the cast of Page 121 Productions' upcoming production of West Lethargy at the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival.

West Lethargy follows the lives of an Old West pioneer couple – Turner and Ellie – as they hit a roadblock on their journey to California when they collide with two contemporary eccentrics – Nugget and Ringle – searching for a long lost brother. In an odd twist of fate, the iconic Empire State Building, standing tall and proud, just might hold the answers for this unlikely quartet.

West Lethargy opens on Saturday, August 14, 2010, at the Kraine Theater in New York. For tickets and additional information, please visit http://www.page121productions.org.

Check back soon to meet the rest of the cast and producing team of this "delightfully absurdist" (The Stage), "energetic and excellent" (Three Weeks) original play!

Fringe Preview at NYTheatre.com

Check out NYTheatre.com's preview of West Lethargy, with these responses from Stephen!

What is your show about?
West Lethargy is about the collision of two couples on their journeys west. The first is a pioneer couple seeking the promised land of California. The second is a pair of modern day hedonists searching for a long lost brother. These two carry an enormous model of the Empire State Building, a bewitching object of unusual power that transforms the four travelers' lives for good.

Why should audiences see your show?
This 2009 Edinburgh Fringe sensation is making an overdue return to the city where it was conceived. It is emblematic of the vitality, immediacy, and genre-bending innovation of Page 121 Productions.

What one thing are audiences going to remember forever about your show after they see it?
Can half-way to paradise be paradise itself? The Empire State Building holds the answers!

What is exciting and/or unique about your show?
What begins in a historical framework quickly becomes an entrancing, unexpected Absurdist romp. The play simultaneously embraces and reinvents notions of life-changing journeys, enduring love, and theatre itself.

Times Announced!

West Lethargy's performance times at The Kraine have been announced:

Saturday, 8/14 at Noon
Wednesday, 8/18 at 11pm
Thursday, 8/19 at 3pm
Sunday, 8/22 at 8:45pm
Thursday, 8/26 at 6:30pm

Save [at least one of] the dates!

Kraine Theater

West Lethargy will be performed at the Kraine Theater on East 4th Street, "one of the most well known downtown venues featuring Off and Off-Off Broadway productions year round." This should be a spectacular space for our show! Dates coming soon...

Original Cast Returning for West Lethargy

We are pleased to announce that 2009's original West Lethargy cast will be returning for the 2010 FringeNYC Festival! Suzanne Lenz, Mikaela Feely-Lehmann, Graham Halstead, and Joie Bauer will all reprise their roles of Ellie, Nugget, Turner, and Ringle. And of course Page 121's very own Jeffrey Feola will once again don the lovely blues of the Postman (who is incidentally NOT based on any Kevin Costner movies).

You'll all be able to see the group that received universal acclaim at last year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival. West Lethargy offers "Engaging performances all round" (The Stage) by actors "who deserve to go far!" (Edinburgh Festivals Magazine).

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