Forced out of necessity to adapt their role as a bridge to European culture, the Origin Theatre Company are reconceiving their production models in order to continue to produce new work with positive cultural impact with the goal of devising a season that leverages many of their existing creative assets and programming strands (like Origin 1st Irish and the European Month of Culture NYC). Their new production models will combine live and digital techniques in ways that they have never tried before.
ORIGIN THEATRE COMPANY – THE SEASON AHEAD!
“DOMESTIC VIOLENCE DURING COVID” – A New Play Commission
A monologue series on the topic of “Domestic Violence During Covid,” written by distinguished contemporary writers in New York and London. Staged site-specifically in apartments with actors, and filmed to heighten immediacy, the writers under commission are Geraldine Aron and Ursula Rani Sarma in London – Honor Molloy* and Derek Murphy in New York.
THE ORIGIN OF … Series
“The Origin Of… Series,” featuring intimate one-on-one conversations with notable theatre artists around the world, as well as panel discussions devoted to new voices that capture the perspectives of young creatives across the globe who are adapting to circumstances in order to find new inspiration.
ORIGIN ON THE RADIO – A New Partnership
Origin has been invited to the European airwaves in a new partnership with Trafika Europe. Their programs will focus on European literature, theatre and performance.
ORIGIN’S 7TH BLOOM – @ Blooms Tavern of course!
On June 16th Origin will continue the tradition of presenting New York’s only Bloomsday Breakfast… off-site this year. In a unique, semi-live online production incorporating musical interludes and heartfelt messages from around the world, this year actors will deliver filmed dramatic readings of “Ulysses” in a variety of locations here and abroad.
MAINSTAGE PRODUCTION
Origin are reconceiving their approach to our Mainstage production in the fall, by presenting a distance-safe staging of the timely and riveting docu-play “A Kid Like Rishi” – for a micro-audience hosted with their partners at the cell theatre on 23rd Street. The aim is to incorporate digital film techniques so that it will be experienced simultaneously by live, remote and at-home audiences. These new circumstances will give new meaning to the concept of the American premiere.
ORIGIN 1st IRISH 2021
Since travel to and from New York will be limited, Origin will stage a festival without borders that is trans-Atlantic in the truest sense. Origin will commission up to 50 playwrights from its extensive list of Irish writers to write short plays on the topic the “Irish-American Experience.” They will be announcing, in the coming months, our full list of playwrights and the innovative ways in which these new plays will be performed and shared during the 2021 Festival!
EUROPEAN MONTH OF CULTURE NYC 2021
As difficult as it was announcing the cancellation of Origin’s European Month of Culture NYC in association with The Delegation of The European Union to the United States this May, they have confirmed that the full program can be transferred to next year saying that “the months of planning with our partners across the city and from Europe will not go to waste”.