CMU School of Drama


Monday, April 16, 2007

Games of Steel

Attack Theatre’s long developing piece Games of Steel will be returning to Pittsburgh at the Kelly-Strayhorn Theatre:

April 27th, 28th, and 30th at 8pm, and an additional show April 28th at 10:30pm

Tickets are available through www.proartstickets.org and are priced at $18(advance), $22(at door), and $15(students). For info about group discount rates contact Scott Hay with info about the size of your group and the performance you are interested in seeing at design@scotthay.org.

Games of Steel premiered in October of 2005 as a site specific Dance/Rock Opera in a warehouse and has been growing and evolving ever since. Games of Steel features a live band led by Musical Director David Eggar and an amazing Steel Cello. Attack summarize the show as follows:

Three relentless contestants, a corrupt host and a musical odds maker face off - in a gritty world of passion and intrigue. In these Games of Steel, it's not who wins … it's who loses the least.

CMU alum Scott Hay was brought in as the new lighting designer for the piece in December of 2006 and along with associate Carl Faber has shaped a brand new look for the piece that is also continually evolving with the dance as new discoveries are made about how to tell this story.

More information about the show and audio clips of a few of the selections visit:

http://www.myspace.com/attacktheatre

ABOUT ATTACK THEATRE:

Attack Theatre creates and performs dance within the context of the human experience. Choices they make within this context drive their work. Site specific, related and determined works explore the landscape of choice. Blending multi-media, live music and traditional forms the artists search for unique presentation. At times funny and silly, at times poignant and heartbreaking, Attack Theatre's performers are not afraid to embrace the beautiful or the ugly. To fully experience a vast array of choices, Attack Theatre must interact with a diverse population. Therefore we seek to insert ourselves into as many diverse, intriguing or beautifully normal populations as possible.

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