Tickets for ’1-900-SELFPLEX’ Now Available
Advance tickets are now available for 1-900-SELFPLEX! To purchase tickets, simply visit TicketWeb, choose which performance(s) you want to attend, add the tickets to your virtual shopping cart, and “check out” for a dose of Fringe-tastic summer fun, courtesy of Elixir Productions Theatre Company. You can also buy tickets by phone at 1-866-468-7619.
PS: Buying your tickets in advance not only guarantees you a seat; it also gets you our love.
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nytheatre.com Fringe Previews
It’s that time again! nytheatre.com just posted its annual FringeNYC previews – brief responses from the artists behind the shows about what audiences can expect from the festival this summer. Below is the transcript and a screenshot of Alex and Jody’s take on 1-900-SELFPLEX.
1-900-SELFPLEX dials into the imagination where the self is as slippery as the myriad stories constructing it. Alberta Lesalle is a 40-year-old woman who desperately wants to be famous. She’s spent most of her life trying and failing to “make it” as a rock star, poet, and sex advise columnist – all while eking out a living with the help of her husband, a guitarist/recording engineer who, like her, keeps hitting a dead end. Her husband is ready to throw in the towel, but Alberta sees one last shot at recognition – by writing under the alias of her alter-ego: a transgendered, teenage boy.
The play is inspired by a true story that hits on intriguing questions about identity and imagination. The word “selfplex” comes from Dr. Susan Blackmore; her idea is that the self is actually a fiction – just one of millions of stories or “memes” which, bundled together, are the closest any of us has to a “real” self. You don’t have to agree with Blackmore, but if you concede to her idea, even for a moment, then suddenly you’re presented with all these new possibilities about who you are. Alberta is the selfplex incarnate, always generating new stories and personas, continuously blurring the lines between true and false, real and imaginary. She fools thousands of people – mostly over the phone – into believing the boy is real. He is real to her, even though she knows she invented him. She even begins to love him. The problem comes when you think about the consequences of Blackmore’s idea: If everyone is merely a collection of stories, what (if anything) remains when those stories are taken away?
Alberta is obstinate, intelligent, hungry, and dead-set on getting what she wants. Our goal is to present intriguing theatre, and Alberta’s journey is intriguing because she does what many of us wish we could do – go after what we want to the fullest, no matter the consequences.
- Alex DeFazio, playwright; Jody P. Person, director
’1-900-SELFPLEX’ Performance Schedule
The performance schedule for 1-900-SELFPLEX is now official! The show will perform as part of this summer’s New York International Fringe Festival on the following dates:
- Monday, 8/17 at 2:00pm
- Tuesday, 8/18 at 5:00pm
- Thursday, 8/20 at 8:15pm
- Saturday, 8/22 at 4:15pm
- Thursday, 8/27 at 9:15pm
- Friday, 8/28 at 4:45pm
Tickets are a mere $15 and can be pre-ordered starting July 18. For tickets, visit FringeNYC online or call 1-866-468-7619. Be sure to ask for 1-900-SELFPLEX!
The official press release has been updated to include these dates.
“Art All Over” ’1-900-SELFPLEX’
Tricia Fagan talks about 1-900-SELFPLEX on her blog, Art All Over, in her entry, “FRINGE!!!”
Broadway World Spotlights the ’1-900-SELFPLEX’ Mercer County College Connection
A new article on Broadwayworld.com spotlights the connection between Elixir Productions’ upcoming show, 1-900-SELFPLEX, and Mercer County Community College.
Some background: Mercer County Community College – or MCCC – makes regular appearances in our NEWS section (it even has its own news category). The reason for this? Elixir co-founders Jody P. Person and Alex DeFazio both teach there.
During our time at the college, we’ve had the privilege of teaching an amazing bunch of aspiring actors, playwrights, dancers, and theatre technicians. Whenever it comes to casting one of our own shows, we always consider our graduates, especially those who distinguished themselves with talent and drive as well as a commitment to their academics. Deena Jiles, Michelle Wood, and Patrick Martin are precisely these kinds of MCCC graduates, and we are so excited to be working with them!
Special thanks to Wendy Humphrey at Mercer County Community College.
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