performance
UPHORIUM! (We Made This)
A ridiculous, heartfelt and highly theatrical lecture-demonstration on UPHORIUM, its precepts, particularities, conundrums and provocations. With experts, singing, meaningful gestures, movement, research, references to puppies, dancing and muffins.
Conceived and directed by Catherine Mueller. Created and presented in Spring 2015 with an ensemble from the International Performance Ensemble at PACE University (NYC). Performances in February, 2016 on Theater Row in NYC. In May, 2016 UPHORIUM! travels to present at an International Theater Festival.
A ridiculous, heartfelt and highly theatrical lecture-demonstration on UPHORIUM, its precepts, particularities, conundrums and provocations. With experts, singing, meaningful gestures, movement, research, references to puppies, dancing and muffins.
Conceived and directed by Catherine Mueller. Created and presented in Spring 2015 with an ensemble from the International Performance Ensemble at PACE University (NYC). Performances in February, 2016 on Theater Row in NYC. In May, 2016 UPHORIUM! travels to present at an International Theater Festival.
FAILURE: A BIG STUPID MESS
served with songs, snacks and awkward silences.
Created and performed by Carla Goodman, Catherine Mueller and Arthur Simone for the Machine Shop Series at the 2013 FuseBox Festival, Austin, TX.
Three idiots investigate failure and try not to set it on fire. www.failureabigstupidmess.com
served with songs, snacks and awkward silences.
Created and performed by Carla Goodman, Catherine Mueller and Arthur Simone for the Machine Shop Series at the 2013 FuseBox Festival, Austin, TX.
Three idiots investigate failure and try not to set it on fire. www.failureabigstupidmess.com
Mary Poppins: A Show About Mary Poppins
Currently in development.
Kim Smith seeks to inspire, delight and educate her audience with this homage to Disney’s Mary Poppins. Part reenactment, part instructional seminar, part tea-service, Kim reveals more than you ever thought you needed to know about Mary.
Created and performed by Catherine Mueller, with developmental assistance from Ben Vigus, Mikhaela Malony and Alex Correia. Presented at Dixon Place and IRT. To listen to a podcast about the making of this show, click HERE!
Currently in development.
Kim Smith seeks to inspire, delight and educate her audience with this homage to Disney’s Mary Poppins. Part reenactment, part instructional seminar, part tea-service, Kim reveals more than you ever thought you needed to know about Mary.
Created and performed by Catherine Mueller, with developmental assistance from Ben Vigus, Mikhaela Malony and Alex Correia. Presented at Dixon Place and IRT. To listen to a podcast about the making of this show, click HERE!
Me Being You Being Me Being You
A choreographical autobiographical abstract direct movement extravaganza, with live sound design.
In collaboration with Elisabeth Motley of Motley Dance.
BIENVENUE! Capucine hosts her very own talk show in pursuit of beauty and honest exchange. With her butler, she blends artifice with the genuine, blurring the lines of performer/audience exchange while baking brownies, receiving mail and interviewing guests. In development.
MOSES Erin believes her cat Moses was sent to her by God, and she espouses enthusiastically to the audience about the healing powers of Jesus, Moses and Roberta Flack. A solo-performance play.
THE BOY ON THE BUS A young woman falls in love with a boy while riding opposite him on a bus. When their connection is nearly severed, she discovers the power of her thoughts in enabling her to get what she wants. A solo-performance play.
THE CAT PROJECT A year spent interviewing women ages 6-93 about their relationship to their cats distilled into a nine-character solo-performance play exploring the giving and receiving of unconditional love, acceptance and attachment.
