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August 2000 – June 2004
Surf Reality, 320 West 37th St, Theatre Row, NYC
Written and directed: Steven Tanenbaum
www.catchmono.com
A legion of actors
performed in MONO during its unprecedented 4-year run;
although there was always a dedicated group at its core
that evolved into AUR. Inspired by the concept of a
singular voice and aspiring to be as immediately
identifiable as the Jazz greats – Sonny Rollins, Jackie
McLean, Lou Donaldson and Dr. Lonnie Smith – that the
cast would often go to see; parts were rotated on a
regular basis to find out what each actor, and only that
actor, could bring to a role.
Cast: Tricia McAlpin, Kerri Tucker, Lawrence Jansen,
Yasu Ikeda, Nick Paglino, Megan Armitage, Maya
Macdonald, Dai Ishiguro, Sera Demira, Irene Longshore,
Yafit Hallely, Adi Terer, JR Dziengel, Kena Cuesta,
Inbal Samuel, Myrav Osofsky, Florina Petcu, Donan
Whelan, Pete Mele, Gabriela Garcia, Kit Paquin, Juliette
Gash, Philip Lowendick, Nysheva Starr, Gloria Garayua,
Ian Crawford, Kerryn Feehan, JJ Hurvich, Valerie
Feingold, David Solomon, Megan Papier, Michael Whitney,
Hadar Lev-Tov, Jerry Marsini, Brett Christensen, Rob
O'Hare, Tara Pesce, Bryan Safi, Enrico Ciotti, Melissa
Carroll, Kiyono Ai, Susan Clark, Antonio Rodriguez,
Jimmy Drago, Laetitia Simon, Maria Vega, Laurel Pinson,
Nicole Fantl, Stacy LeVine, David Mitchell, Eunjee Lee,
Yaniv Rokach, David Villalobos, Chantal Bushelle,
Courtney Jansen, Roz Winter, Margaret Dawson, Belle
Rodriguez, Joe Leone, John Burke, Lorraine Mattox,
Maggie Kemper, Diana Delacruz, Erin Carey, Brian Corr,
Lee Briggs, Brandon Mather, Magdalena Bryneson, Juju
Stulbach, Alex Dawson, Tara Gallagher, Amanda Gruss,
Phil Burke, Klara Leopold, Toshi 'N', Paul Paglia,
Claudia Desideri, Heather Sabella, Raluca Georgiana,
Annie Purcell, Alyssa Weiss, Sarina Mennasemay, Scott
Chan
“Critics’ Pick”
TimeOut,
New York Magazine, Paper, NY Post,
citysearch.com, NYTheatre.com, Where, IN New York, Show
Business Weekly, High 5, On&Off and more
“Steven Tanenbaum’s long running cult hit, MONO,
transforms Surf Reality into a local bar for 13 unsavory
characters to get drunk, high, heartbroken and burned
out.”
- David Cote, Time Out
“MONO is an engaging, promising sample of a new, fresh,
lively kind of theatre.”
- Donald Lyons, NYPost
“This Inventive, interactive play set in a barlike
environment with a sock puppet, has been a surprising
success downtown.”
- Logan Hill, New York Magazine
“A
cult hit…MONO is a Short Cuts for a generation of
bipolar consumerati.”
- David Cote, Time Out
“Steven Tanenbaum’s MONO, a nasty play that opened last
August, is still rolling along on strong reviews with
its lo-fi take on immersive theatre, in which audiences
are encouraged to eavesdrop on the action surrounding
them in a raunchy bar.”
- Logan Hill, New York Magazine
“Tanenbaum’s plot is a 21st century answer to La Ronde…a
Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding for the downtown set: funny,
fresh, hip and literally engaging…”
- citysearch.com
“The
cast of MONO leads a new generation of Cutting Edge
Theatre…Tanenbaum’s creative use of the space
obliterates the wall between audience and performer…”
- Show Business Weekly (Cover article 09/26/01)
“It’s shocking, engaging, and the kind of
off-the-beaten-track theatre for which New York is
notorious.”
- Where Magazine
“Tanenbaum has come up with such an intriguing premise
that should find a young, downtown audience.”
- Chip Deffa, NYPost
“Very funny, provocative and unusual…the audience’s
reactions make the show.”
- Play by Play
“MONO has got to be one of the hippest and funkiest new
plays around…a modern cult classic.”
- High5 (200,000 member theatre arts organization for
teens in the tri-state area)
“MONO satisfied that little voyeur inside each of us…If
you’re looking for something to do on a weekend and
can’t decide between taking in some theater or having a
few drinks with your friends, opt for both and catch
MONO”
- On&Off
“Whether for the snappy dialogue, the sincere delivery,
the unpredictable clockwork of the ensemble of the
strikingly surreal sensation of the whole…every true New
Yorker should catch MONO”
- The Village Gazette
“…a
good old-fashioned brew of theatrical magic…a potent
statement about the lonely singlehood of many New
Yorkers…a triumph”
- NYTheatre.com
“Those in search of hip, innovative entertainment that’s
not available Uptown; those unafraid to confront
unpleasant characters or question their own
self-absorbed flaws; MONO may be perfect for you.”
- Gay City News
"Mono...is a biting, clawing and penetrating pastiche of
dialogue, now running, or more accurately, now “panting”
Off Broadway that is not so much a play as it is a
theatre of cruelty. Just when you thought hell was other
people – a claim Mono makes no attempt to dispel – one
comes to the frightening realization that hell may also
be, oneself…a dénouement as claustrophobic as the
performance space [Surf Reality]."
- Michael Mehler, Full Color Sound
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