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The Convolution of Pip and Twig is a story of twins navigating the light and the shadow of a complicated love, through well-worn routines, and epic adventure.

DECEMBER 10-14, 2014 8pm

Round Room Dance Studio
The Old Michie Building
609 East Market St, Suite 211
Charlottesville VA 22902
(Street parking on Market St or 7th, or in the Market St Parking Garage across the street)
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LIMITED SEATING
$15  –  Cash and check at the door only
Email us here if you would like to reserve a spot
(tickets not claimed ten minutes prior to show time will be released for sale to others)
Wed 12/10 and Thurs 12/11 are currently FULL – if you cannot come another night, you may put your name on the waiting list in case there are cancellations
Appropriate for ages 10+

THE CONVOLUTION OF PIP AND TWIG

Presented by The Hamner Theater
Created and Performed by Siân Richards and Kara McLane Burke
Directed by Martha Mendenhall
Text contributed by Jennifer Hoyt Tidwell
Music and Lyrics by Jim Waive
Lights by Rowena Halpin
Sound Effects Hunted Down by Opal Lechmanski
Stage Managed by Opal Lechmanski
Lights and Sounds Operated by Opal Lechmanski
Set and Costume assistance by Jim Waive, Corey Lloyd, Laura Covert, Lisa Eller, Zap McConnell, Will May, Jennifer Tidwell
Hair by Leslie Morgan Lowry 
Graphic Design by Vu Nguyen with photo by Rich Tarbell (see attached image)
Box Office and general PEP Backup –  Jennifer Hoyt Tidwell and Doreen Bechtol

If you can’t make it to our December run of The Convolution of Pip and Twig, you will have another chance to see us in February 2015:

Live Arts Founders Theatre
Charlottesville VA
Details to come

Call 434-806-9506 for questions

Follow us on Facebook for info about performances, workshops and others PEP activities 

Hi everyone, it’s Siân and Kara. For over a year now, we have been at times wandering and at times striding toward a two-person show of our own design. We are almost there.

The Convolution of Pip and Twig is a story of twins navigating the light and the shadow of a complicated love, through well-worn routines, and epic adventure. We are creating and performing this show with direction by Martha and text contributions from Jennifer. We are grateful to The Hamner Theater, who is giving us assistance as our presenter.

The play will have it’s inaugural run December 10-14 in the Round Room dance studio in the Old Michie Building in Charlottesville VA. Audience size will be very limited there, but the show will run again with room for a larger audience at Live Arts’ Founders Theater at the end of Feb 2015.

Keep an eye out here or follow us on Facebook for details and updates. We will be posting peeks into source material and our approach to play development, for those of you who like that sort of thing, and the wheres, whens and hows, for those of you who just want the facts. Thank you to Vu Nguyen for the groovy poster image above.

Now, we should probably get back to work!

Until next time,
Siân and Kara

Hello Friends! It’s time to catch you up the current activities of our collective members here in Charlottesville and beyond:

Kara and Siân are in the process of creating a new (as-yet-unnamed) play with direction by Martha and text contributions by Jennifer. We will be posting more about this project here and on PEP’s Facebook Fan Page as the show moves toward performance in December 2014 and February 2015. We hope to see you there!

Jennifer has begun work on an MFA in Playwriting and has been working on her project, “While You Wait”, a “microgallery of mystery that is on an endless tour of our city. The Attendant asks you to spend 5 minutes alone with whatever is in the box”.
You can keep up with her here: https://www.facebook.com/whileyouwaitcville

On the other side of the mountain, Doreen has been in the thick of teaching MFA students in the Shakespeare and Performance program at Mary Baldwin College.  She just finished directing a devised show with the students called Little Life. Based on three Shakespeare plays (Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, and The Winter’s Tale) and one play by Thomas Middleton (A Chaste Maid in Cheapside) this original performance traced the lives of the four heroines, or “lost girls,” from birth to death.  Next up on her plate she’ll be directing, Metamorphoses, by Mary Zimmerman for the undergraduate drama department at Mary Baldwin College.

In other news, Martha has been working toward her MFA in screenwriting. We gathered with some friends recently to read through her screenplay, Artist of the Beautiful. It was a perfect reason to spend time with some of our favorite people, to quietly inaugurate a friend’s beautiful new studio space, Native Pond, and to give Martha a chance to hear all of her (many times revised) words out loud.

Thank you for your support!
Love, PEP