Swimmy and Other Stories
Adapted & Directed by Natsu Onoda
With Visiting Artist Alex Thomas
Based on the childrens books by Leo Lionni
Feb 21 - 23 at 8 PM; Feb 24 at 2 PM & 8 PM; Feb 25 at 2 PM in the Devine Studio Theatre
"Sounds weird? You have no idea... unlike anything else you'll ever see" (TimeOut Chicago)
The Theater Program at Georgetown University continues to foster ground-breaking performance with the multi-media presentation of Professor Natsu Onoda's adaptation of Swimmy & Other Stories, in the Devine Studio Theatre of the new Royden B. Davis Performing Arts Center.
With on-the-spot, large-scale drawing, video, a live band & live animals, Swimmy & Leo Lionni's other timeless children's books will come alive as never before. This experimental performance is part children's musical, part chamber theater, part performance art, part blues concert & part drag pageant. Devised in collaboration with GU students, the show is appropriately upbeat for children & off-beat enough for grown-ups, hip young adults & whimsical friends of theater.
Director, adapter & co-designer Natsu Onoda is a Visiting Assistant Professor for the Georgetown University Theater Program. She is also the artistic director of a Chicago-based performance group Live Action Cartoonists, with whom she has written & directed numerous productions including Science (Fiction), Are You My Negative Space? & Performance of Sleep In One Long Act Without Intermission. Her favorite set design credits include Romeo and Juliet at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Loss of Breath at Theatre X in Milwaukee & most recently Schoolgirl Figure at Georgetown. She is currently working on a book on a Japanese cartoonist Osamu Tezuka.
Onoda is joined by Chicago-based Production Designer Alex Thomas- a nationally recognized cartoonist, illustrator & founding member of Onoda's Live Action Cartoonists. Thomas is the creator of the popular daily comic strip Bottom of the Food Chain (The Daily Northwestern). His political cartoons have gained significant regional & national recognition winning him the John Locher Memorial Award, given by the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He is also currently working on the weekly comic serial, The Adventures of Captain Hare Borne and the Space Squadron, a finalist in the 2006 Isotope Comics Excellence in Minicomics Award.
Swimmy testifies to the artistic vitality of Georgetown University's Theater Program. This unique adaptation honors the new Davis Center's mission to bring outstanding theater to life, including new works, through collaboration with professional artists, educational outreach, & an integration of critical and creative inquiry.
Tickets can be ordered online or by calling (202) 687-ARTS. Price of admission is $12 (general seating) $10 (faculty & staff) $7 (students).
