Tiny Mayhem Showcases New Contemporary Performance

Tiny Mayhem will return to The Red Door, 107 State Street, Portsmouth, NH 03801 on Tuesday, June 9th with more contemporary works of theatre, art and dance at 8pm, doors at 7.30pm. Tiny Mayhem is a new series workshops, interventions and events created to help makers, in all disciplines, find collaborators and space to explore new performative work. The evening of short performances are free and open to the public, held on the second Tuesday in April, June and August they showcase new performance work by emerging and established makers. Tiny Mayhem’s first season will run throughout the Summer of 2015.

The creative team behind Tiny Mayhem is excited for the second event of the season on June 9th. “We had a great turnout at our first event on April 14th,” says Tiny Mayhem co-creator Catherine Stewart, “We filled The Red Door with new performance and audiences keen to see something different.” Works shown at Tiny Mayhem are all under 30 minutes in length, and can be fully formed pieces or works-in-progress. “It’s all about experimentation,” says actress and Tiny Mayhem co-creator Emily Karel. “We want to provide a space where people can try something new, explore an idea or find someone new to work with. As performance makers we need challenges, and changes. Tiny Mayhem tries to help that happen.”

The June 9th show will include new works inspired by the theme of belonging and relationships In the line-up this time around there will be a solo performance by poet Mike Nelson, titled The Devil Walks into a Bar, where we will learn what really happened in The Garden of Eden. Mike Nelson is the host of Beat Night at The Press Room and author of the book Another Forty Years. “I met with Mike several months ago, and he was excited about the idea of trying something new with his poetry, and the performance of it. We’re delighted to have him at Tiny Mayhem.” says Stewart. Also presenting on the Tiny Mayhem stage is Genevieve Aichele with her work Memoirs, which will be performed by Kate Kirkwood, Sandra Woodworth along with Aichele herself. “It’s a new script about what happens to families when secrets are brought out into the open,” says Aichele. “I was really inspired by the current fascination with memoirs and ‘reality art’.” Aichele is the founding artistic director of New Hampshire Theatre Project and has been performing, directing, teaching and writing about theatre for 40 years. Other scripts for adults include an adaptation of Lysistrata, and the docudramas Neighborhoods and Dreaming Again. Alongside these two text based performances, Tiny Mayhem will be presenting Hio Ridge Dance, a contemporary movement company based in Denmark Maine. Cookie Harrist and Delaney McDonough will be bringing new movement work to the June event, and sharing their mission of making, sharing, and touring fresh, contemporary artwork in underserved and/or rural communities. More information about the creators, their work and the other performances happening on June 9th can be found on the Tiny Mayhem website, or on our facebook page.

As always The Red Door will be open from 7.30pm and after the performances for drinks, including our very own cocktail the Tiny Mayhem and through a special partnership created for the performance series you can also get a selection of White Heron Tea at the venue. Audiences are encouraged to come early to find a comfy space, and chat with the creators.

Tiny Mayhem is a Contemporary Performance Series, showcasing theatre, art, dance and anything else that deserves an audience. Each event will be filled with a curated selection of works under 30 minutes in length from a variety of writers, directors, actors, dancers, puppeteers, poets, musicians, visual artists and more. If you are a creator and you are interested in presenting work at our final event of the season on August 11th you can find out more at our website, tinymayhem.com or speak to us on June 9th.

Members of the creative team are available for interview.

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