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*SOLSTICEJanuary, 2012: The Magnetic Theatre in Asheville's River Arts District will present the world premier of John Crutchfield's new play, Solstice. By turns comic, tragic, disturbing, and absurd, Solstice is a volatile drama about two friends whose lives take radically different courses in a single dark night. Directed by the playwright. Featuring an all-star Asheville cast of Scott Fisher, Glenn Reed, and Lisa Smith. Stage managed by Rachel Thomas-Levy, sound design by Mary Castellaneta, set design by Annette Griffin, lighting design by Ryan Madden, fight choreography by Michael MacCauley. Previews January 12 and 13, premiere January 14. Performances weekly Thurs.-Sat. until February 4. All shows at 7:30pm. Tickets $12/$15. For ticket information, call 828.668.2154 or visit The Magnetic Field here. |
*The Men's Dance FestivalMarch, 2012: One of Asheville's favorite festivals features choreographic works created and performed by men. This year's festival will include the premiere of a new solo performance piece by John Crutchfield, called Performative Utterances. The festival runs March 23, 24, and 25 at the Bebe Theatre in downtown Asheville. All performances at 8pm. For more information, visit Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre here. |
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*LANDSCAPE WITH MISSING PERSONAugust, 2012: The Magnetic Theatre will present the world premier of John Crutchfield's "existential rom-com," directed by Steve Samuels. Details forthcoming. |
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*THE SOUTHERN POETRY ANTHOLOGY, vol. III: Contemporary Appalachia
Now available from Texas Review Press Among the many celebrated and emerging Appalachian poets featured in the new volume of The Southern Poetry Anthology, John Crutchfield lays claim to a page or two with his poems "Ox Creek Road," Wild Leeks," "Trout Lake," and "Meteor Shower," all taken from the unpublished manuscript Blackberry Winter. For more information, click here: Southern Poetry Anthology
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*THE BARS OF ATLANTIS: Selected Essays of Durs GrünbeinNow available from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Translated from the German by John Crutchfield, Michael Hofmann, and Andrew Shields Edited by Michael Eskin, who praises Crutchfield's translations for having "beautifully caught the original's stylistic visage...with great fidelity and elegance, while...retaining its mild-to-medium-strong undercurrent of wryness and irony," and for having "managed to follow the original on its many stylistic and intellectual explorations without sacrifiing sense and logical consistency." For more information, click here: The Bars of Atlantis
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*LOCAL BOY GOES TO BIG CITY, MAKES GOODTHE SONGS OF ROBERT wins "Outstanding Solo Show" at FringeNYC 2009 In August, 2009, John Crutchfield took his quirkily poetic one-man show, The Songs of Robert, to the New York International Fringe Festival. The show ran for five performances at the Milagro Theatre on Suffolk Street in Manhattan's Lower East Side, garnered two very positive reviews, and won the Festival's Overall Excellence Award for "Outstanding Solo Show." For the New York production, Crutchfield worked closely with director Steve Samuels (Artistic Director of The Magnetic Theatre in Asheville) and producer Chall Gray. To read what the critics had to say, click on the links below: The official playscript is now avalable in the anthology, Plays and Playwrights 2010, edited by Martin Denton. For more information, click here: Plays and Playwrights 2010 To read the full script online, click here: Indie Theatre Now To read Martin Denton's "cyber interview" with John Crutchfield, click here: Crutchfield interview |
ONGOING PROJECTS
*RedDust, by Mathew Rosenblum. For the past year, John Crutchfield has been collaborating with composer Mathew Rosenblum on the libretto for RedDust, an experimental opera comissioned by NYC-based new music ensemble Sequitur. The piece combines text from a variety of sources to tell the story of a young Asian-American writer who must write 10,000 words about a stone that becomes a boy.
*Yugen. John Crutchfield continues to collaborate with choreographers Julie Becton Gillum (of Legacy Butoh) and Sara Baird (of Anemone Dance Theatre) on the creation and performance of butoh, an avant garde Japanese dance form combining elements of Kabuki theatre and German Expressionism. Other members of the ensemble include Jenni Cockrell, Julia Taylor and Erik Moellering.
*The Intimate Journals of Jacob Higginbotham. Over the past several years, John Crutchfield has performed excerpts from his absurdist work-in-progress, an episodic one-man-show about an incompetant dandy obsessed with making marriage proposals to young women in his small town.