Technology & The Human Cry
Carl Cherry Center Run and Exclusive Henry Miller Library Engagement
You're On Earth. There is no cure for that.
- Samuel Beckett
Kangalee Arts & J. Stock Productions kick off the new year ringing in the grave absurdity of our times with two of Samuel Beckett's tour-de-force monologues dealing with aging, regret, and doom -- Krapp's Last & Rockaby. Both are exercises in the tension between the past, present and the future and both the cruelties and wondrousness of our recorded memories and voice. One a punk-rock 'King Lear', the other a gothic choreo-poem -- rendered by Dennis Kangalee and Justine Stock in their first double-bill collaboration.
Tickets are on sale now for the Carl Cherry Center in (Carmel, California) run and the one-night exclusive engagement at the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur!
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Samuel Beckett, playwright known for “Theatre of the Absurd” will come to life, in this one weekend only performance by Dennis Leroy Kangalee of the Kangalee Arts Ensemble in NYC & Justine Stock, of New Canon Theatre Co, Monterey CA at The Carl Cherry & Henry Miller Library. A double bill of Samuel Beckett's plays, Krapp's Last Tape, an early masterpiece from 1957 and Rockaby, one of his rarer later gems written in 1983. Directed and Performed by Dennis Leroy Kangalee and Justine Stock, both plays deal with the angst of memory, the mystery of aging; they ask us to consider what the culmination of a life experience is or can be.
A special evening of two Samuel Beckett plays presented in an exclusive double-bill of his most accessible and challenging pieces for solo actors determined to make a connection with a live human audience. Titled “Technology & The Human Cry” J. Stock Productions and Kangalee Arts Ensemble bring both Krapp’s Last Tape and Rockaby to the stage in one unforgettable hour-long program.
Director, Actor & Artistic Director of Kangalee Arts Ensemble in NYC shares “Because while the world is suffering with many things, one thing we as artists can combat – is the information overload; the bombardment of spectacle in our arts and entertainment. In an attempt to kickstart the new year with pared down, simple “chamber plays” that are exquisitely rendered by the Master of the Absurd and the great comic folly of human behavior, Samuel Beckett, Technology & The Human Cry aims to redirect the focus of acting and drama from the grand sweep of spectacle to the epic of human thoughts and emotions. In a time where nothing seems to make sense and the only thing guaranteed is aging or death, Stock and Kangalee wanted to return to the theater with intimate works that infer what Joan Didion once observed, “The real wars are inward.”
Aesthetically, both plays wrestle with the idea of the human voice dueting with a recorded voice. Beckett was curious, if not intrigued with technology itself — especially how recording mediums can refract our own lives back to us.
In each mono-drama the solo performer must listen to his or herself - on a recorded tape and not only react to that, but allow it to influence how they view their life. Krapp’s tapes and nameless woman W’s voice (“V”) in Rockaby – emanate as “recorded ghosts” in a way… enabling enormous joy but also overwhelming pain.
Written by: Samuel Beckett
Directed by: Dennis Leroy Kangalee, Kangalee Arts Ensemble
Produced by: Justine Stock & Susan Kingsland
Stage Manager: Sean Aten
Cast: Dennis Leroy Kangalee (Krapp’s Last Tape) Justine Stock (Rockaby)
Note: Recommended for ages 14 and up.
5 Performances Only, As Follows:
January, 2025:
Carl Cherry Center-
- Thursday, January, 23rd @ 7:00 p.m. (Preview Night)
- Friday, January, 24th @ 7:00 p.m. (Opening Night Post Show Reception)
- Saturday, January 25th @ 7:00p.m.
- Sunday, January 26th @ 2:00 p.m.
Henry Miller Library-
- Sunday, January 26th @ 7:00 p.m. (Closing Night)
Tickets:
$35.00 per ticket
