Join us Friday, May 14th at 7:30PM for A FINAL IMPOSSIBILITY!
One-night-only performance event, utilizing social distancing and CDC guidelines. The event is ticketed. This performance will not be streamed online, and is in-person only. More information can be found at the event ticketing site: https://afinalimpossibility.brownpapertickets.com/ or the artist's website: loganschulman.net/a-final-impossibility
A Final Impossibility takes us inside a historic fictionalization of the studio and mind of an aging Norman Rockwell in 1966, as he struggles to paint the lunar landing in a commissioned trio of paintings for NASA and Look Magazine. As Rockwell and his ghost-painter, Pierre Mion, converse, argue, and empathize about the cosmos-at-large and their own mortality, the presence of Time itself will be revealed to the audience. Visually-obscured vignettes permeate the play to demonstrate the great swaths of happenings from a history that both predates as well as encompasses the venue’s present physical existence. The play combines both projected and live including liquid light shows, stage magic, and a haunting soundscape, composed and performed by St. Louis-based musician Seawrecker, to create a lush atmosphere full of stars and wonder as we journey into the consciousness of an artist.
A Final Impossibility is at once a high-octane cerebral trip through spacetime and a philosophical dialogue on our own existence as passengers on spaceship Earth. MARA Studio + Gallery welcomes an exceedingly talented cast — helmed by writer and director Logan Gabrielle Schulman — in portraying 20th Century painters Rockwell and Mion. Sarasota favorite, Bob Trisolini will tackle the role of Americana- icon Norman Rockwell, with frequent Urbanite-contributor Casey Murphy portraying Pierre Mion. Amber McNew, an alumnus of the FSU/Asolo Conservatory and frequent collaborator with Urbanite theater, will narrate. Logan Gabrielle Schulman is a genderqueer interdisciplinary visual and performance artist, theatre director, and educator. Through performance, installation, and video, their practice weaves empathy, criticality, and the rapturous notion of deep time into immersive narratives. Their work has been presented by the Chautauqua Institution, the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, and the Historic Asolo Theatre at the Ringling Museum of Art, among other institutions locally, nationally, and internationally. They received their training from the New College of Florida with a dual degree in religion and performance studies, and from the Stella Adler Studio for Actor Training. Their play Make Thee an Ark, written with and directed by Raychel Ceciro will premier at Marie Selby Garden’s Historic Spanish Point Campus in October, and their gallery show A Golem Wakes and Sleeps in the Mourning will open June 4th at the Old City Jewish Art Center in Philadelphia, PA.
