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CounterBalance Theater's Longitude (multiple performances)

Longitude is a devised theater performance about 18th century inventor/clockmaker John Harrison, and his entry into the most important race of the century: to discover a means of measuring longitude at sea.  6 physical actors portray all the characters in the story from Galileo to King George III  to The Man Who Knows Everything;  as well as storms at sea, the celestial heavens, maritime clocks, and Harrison’s inspiration/muse.
March 16, 17 and 18th at 8pm
March 18th at 2pm.

Reservations recommended)
Music- Mark Caspary; 
Projection-  Andy Broomell
Lighting - Ebony Madry

Adapted and Directed by CounterBalance Artistic Director, Annie Loui

based on New York Times bestseller Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel

With:  Thomas Varga, Alex Raby, Nick Manfredi, Kayla Kearney, Megan Gainey, Xander Ritchey

CounterBalance Theater- http://counter-balancetheater.com/

Talk back series brings together scholars and curators with actors and the director for lively post-performance conversations.

Thursday talk back: Pat Seed, professor of History
Friday talk-back: Daniella McCahey, PhD  candidate in History and Scott Stone, UCI Libraries
Saturday matinee talk-back: Krystle Satrum, curator, Huntington Library
Saturday evening talk-back: Julia Lupton, UCI Illuminations

CounterBalance Theater’s  mission is to “to create physical theater based on great literature.” CounterBalance has constructed locally and in Europe, and toured productions using 6-8 transforming performers who play the characters, architecture, furniture and forces of nature in each production.   Productions of Jane Eyre, Par Lagerkvist’s The Dwarf, The Odyssey, The Iliad, and Elsewhere, inspired by Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, have received public acclaim “Best Ensemble 2013” , “Best Director” 2014”  LA Arts Examiner, “Vibrant and exhilaratingly alive”, OC Weekly; “Jane Eyre gets a whole new spin” St Louis Post Dispatch.  Artistic Director, Annie Loui, brings her dance and mime training in Paris to the devising process, as well as her wealth of experiences choreographing for the American Repertory Theater, Signature Theater and the Orchestra of St Lukes (NYC). 

CounterBalance is in residence in the Grotowski Barn at the University of California, Irvine.