HYDE - Critic's Choice Best Play Winner 2024
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From the creative team who brought you the multi-award-winning Off-Broadway sensation “Generic Male” comes PUSH Physical Theatre’s new show: : It's Jekyll & Hyde with a twist. Meet Edward Hyde. He has rented a theatre, put on his fanciest suit and hired a couple of actors to tell his side of the story. His lofty ambitions to be a superstar careen off the rails when his special guest is late and his actors go off script. Can he keep his emotions in check and pull off the greatest event of the century? It’ll be hilarious, acrobatic, and for the audience, maybe a little dangerous. : Don’t be a stranger now - : https://www.pushtheatre.org/shows/hyde
Gravity defying PUSH Physical Theatre has been called a cross between fine art sculpture and the hit movie "The Matrix." You have NEVER seen anything like this before...it's cool, it's athletic, it's entertaining, it's impossible to resist... This theatre of the body features professional performers who appear to manipulate time and space in a live environment. It's all about the stories. The narratives of our lives played out with hope, strength and optimism. Once you've experienced PUSH, you will know the strength of the human soul expressed by the power of the human body. PUSH's unique form has transformed it into a national company that has performed all over England, across the United States and Mexico and appeared on PBS and NPR.
About PUSH Physical Theatre: Intense athleticism, gravity-defying acrobatics, and soulful artistry are the trademarks of award-winning, genre-defining PUSH Physical Theatre. Founded in Rochester, NY in 2000 by husband-and-wife team, Darren and Heather Stevenson, out of a desire to “push” the boundaries of conventional theatre, PUSH has since earned an international reputation as one of the U.S.’s leading physical theatre companies. Recently featured in acclaimed collaborations with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the Ying Quartet, and Pulitzer Prize-nominated composer Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon’s two multi-media operas (Comala and No Se Culpe with fellow composer Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez), PUSH has also produced its own full-length works including DRACULA, Jekyll & Hyde, and Arc of Ages. Additionally, its wide-ranging repertory includes many shorter works such as “Red Ball,” a hilarious take on the interplay between the real and virtual worlds using iPad technology. PUSH was a season finalist on TruTV’s national series, Fake Off, a competition/reality show featuring what producers dubbed “the captivating art of ‘faking’” – a mix of theatre, acrobatics, and illusion. Their performances caused judge and Glee star Harry Shum Jr. to exclaim: “You guys are superhuman!” These masters of physical storytelling have received the Community of Color/Anton Germano Dance Award, the Performing Artist of the Year Award from the Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester, and the University of Rochester’s Lillian Fairchild Award. In addition to a busy touring schedule, PUSH is passionate about arts-in-education programs and runs its own summer day camp for kids, teen training, and summer intensive for adult students from all over the world. More information is available at pushtheatre.org. Education: Award-winning PUSH Physical Theatre inspires awe with physical illusions and gravity-defying, acrobatic high-jinx. Individual stories connect to technology, science, character development and other learning goals and are given context to help children interpret the work in a grade-level appropriate way. It’s cool, it’s athletic, it’s a perfect metaphor-in-motion; the narratives of our lives played out with hope, strength, and optimism. About this video series: Developed as a free educational resource for educators and students PUSH explores several methods to develop choreography and skill using improvisation techniques. The basic exercises derive ideas used by many physical theatre, dance and theatre companies. Non-Traditional Partnering, Contact Improv, contemporary dance, Commedia dell'arte and other movement theatre forms may use these techniques. Other companies you may want to research include DV8, Frantic Assembly, Pilobolus, Momix, Gecko, SITI (Anne Bogart), as well as some of the originators of corporeal and illusionary mime such as Etienne Decroux, Marcel Marceau, Bill Irwin, Jacques Copeau, Jacques Lecoq, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.