Written and directed by Edward Einhorn
Originally developed with Yvonne Roen
Currenty being presented virtually, on demand
This 25-minute one-on-one performance by Yvonne Roen is available on demand for $25. Contact us at email performancefor1@gmail.com if you are interested in booking a slot, with some possible times of availability.
Payments for the performance can be made here
"Performance For One not only manages to succeed as a highly intellectual show but also as an emotion-packed experience.”
- Theater is Easy
“An unusually intimate experience, and a lovely way to feel a personal connection through theater.”
“Potent...I liked that this show acknowledges a theater audience is not passive. We’re not mere vessels being casually filled by the art. Our brains are whirring. Our emotions are being churned. Things are happening in the audience–sometimes positive, sometimes negative. But it is an active practice."
- Exeunt
"Einhorn excels at the meaningfully meta; in his plays medium never overpowers message, though they do dance divinely...in the role of the storyteller Elizabeth Chappel was a careful and compelling bearer of these fragile flickers from the past, and the fulness of human warmth and emotional forthrightness it takes to incarnate them."
- HiLoBrow
The performance is about memory, but even more so, it is about relationship between performer, audience member, and author. What is the responsibility of the audience member, and how is it felt differently when there is only one audience member? Who is the story teller, the author or the performer? What happens to a memory that two people share after one of those people is gone?
ORIGINAL PRESENTATIONS:
Online, with Eliuzabeth Chappel, Joshua Wolf Coleman, and Yvonne Roen, from March - June 2020
IN PERSON:
With a rotating cast of actors, including Elizabeth Chappel, Joshua Coleman, Andrea Gallo, Jan Leslie Harding, Allison Hiroto, Yvonne Roen, and Melissa Rakiro.
Performance for One Part 2, a sequel to the first, is available at all performances with Yvonne Roen, for those who want to experience it. Those are currently scheduled for September 6, 8, 21, and 28; October 10, 13,and 20; and November 3.
FREE! Please RSVP to performancefor1@gmail.com to request a time. There will also be some slots kept available for walk-ins.
Playing at the following venues and times:
September 6 - 8 Fri 5pm - 10pm, Sat & Sun 1pm - 6pm
at Chashama, 21 Greenwich Ave
(Sep 6: Elizabeth Chappel, Jan Leslie Harding, Yvonne Roen and Melissa
Rakiro; Sep 7: Melissa Rakiro; Sep 8: Yvonne Roen)
September 21 - 22 Sat & Sun 12pm - 5pm
at Governor’s Island/Dysfunctional Collective, Colonels Row House 410A
(Sep 21: Yvonne Roen, Sep 22 Melissa Rakiro)
September 25 Wed 6pm - 8pm at the Broadway Community Mall
located at the traffic island on the north side of 96th and Broadway
(Elizabeth Chappel)
September 28 - 29 Sat & Sun 12pm - 5pm
at Governor’s Island/Dysfunctional Collective, Colonels Row House 410A
(Sep 28: Yvonne Roen, Sep 29 Melissa Rakiro)
October 5 Sat 2:30 - 5:30
at Word Up Community Bookshop, 2113 Amsterdam Ave at 165th St
(Elizabeth Chappel and Allison Hiroto)
October 10 - 13, Thu - Fri 3:30pm - 7:30pm, Sat - Sun 2pm - 6pm
at Chashama, 266 W. 37th Street
(Oct 10 Yvonne Roen, Oct 11 Jan Leslie Harding and Andrea Gallo, Oct 12 Allison Hiroto and Jan leslie Harding, Oct 13 Yvonne Roen)
October 17 - 20, Thu - Fri 4pm - 6:30, Sat - Sun 3pm - 6pm
at Art in Odd Places: 2019 Invisible, underneath the High Line at 14th Street
(Oct 17 Andrea Gallo, Oct 18 Jan Leslie Harding, Oct 19 Andrea Gallo,
Oct 20 Jan Leslie Harding)
November 3 Sun 4pm - 8pm at Torn Page, 435 W. 22nd Street
(Yvonne Roen and Joshua Coleman)
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council
as well the Schapiro Fund,
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
New York State Council on the Arts
