Experimenting with new ways of making and finding joy in a pandemic, Split Britches collaborated with lighting and video designer and editor Nao Nagai, sound designer and composer Vivian Stoll, and choreographer Morgan Thorson to create a new format for performance that could be shared from a time of quarantine. Playing with the fragility of technology, particularly the unpredictability of Zoom, the team found new avenues to the classic Split Britches aesthetic of broken down theatrical conventions, exposing the self on stage.
"...not just one of the 40-year-old company’s best pieces, but among the most evocative art to emerge from the Covid era"
- Elisabeth Vincentelli, The New York Times
SOUND DESIGN
"To My Chagrin": Vivian Stoll, Peggy Shaw
"LAST GASP WFH" (Split Britches)
2021 Drama League Awards nominee for "Outstanding Digital Theater, Individual Production"
- Written and performed by Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver
- Lois Weaver: Director
- Nao Nagai: Lighting and Video Design
- Vivian Stoll: Sound Design, Audio Post Production, Musical Soundscape Compositions
- Morgan Thorson: Movement and Choreography
- Presented by: La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, NYC
Photo credit: Dona Ann McAdams
Past Features/Tours
Photo credit: Lori E. Seid
"Lost Lounge": Vivian Stoll, Peggy Shaw, Lois Weaver
Copyright 2022 Vivian Stoll. All rights reserved.
Written and performed by Split Britches Company
"Combining a Dr. Strangelove-inspired performance with a daring forum for public conversation, Unexploded Ordnances (UXO) explores ageing, anxiety, hidden desires and how to look forward when the future is uncertain."
"Performance artist Peggy Shaw ruminates on life before and after the stroke she had in 2011, delivering a freewheeling monologue with deadpan humor and arresting honesty."
Performed by Peggy Shaw, directed by Lois Weaver, choreography by Stormy Brandenberger, music and sound design by Vivian Stoll, set and media design by Matt Delbridge, lighting by Lori E. Seid.
Virtual band members: Vivian Stoll, Terry Dame, Ellie Covan, Sharon Jane Smith, Melissa Connell, Maggie Connell, Antonia Abramova
SOUND DESIGN/MUSIC for LIVE PERFORMANCE
- Split Britches - LAST GASP: A Recalibration, La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, New York City, 2022; Village Voice Review: "Coming Out...of the House"
- Split Britches - LAST GASP: A Recalibration, Barbican, London, 2021
- Split Britches - UNEXPLODED ORDNANCES (UXO): Music and Sound Design
- Peggy Shaw - RUFF: Collaborator; Music and Sound Design
Split Britches - LOST LOUNGE: Music and Sound Design, Live Keyboards (Review: "The Feminist Spectator")
Lois Weaver - "TAMMY NEEDS TO KNOW": Sound Design, Music
Split Britches - MISS AMERICA: Music and Sound Design
Split Britches - DRESS SUITS TO HIRE (2005): Music and Sound design
Split Britches - SALAD OF THE BAD CAFÉ: Music and Sound Design
Peggy Shaw - TO MY CHAGRIN: Co-writer, Collaborator; Performer; Music and Sound Design; Script published in "A Menopausal Gentleman: The Solo Performances of Peggy Shaw"; (NY Times Review)
Peggy Shaw - MENOPAUSAL GENTLEMAN: Music and Sound Design; Directed by Rebecca Taichman; *OBIE AWARD WINNER, Peggy Shaw (1999)
- Holly Hughes - PREACHING TO THE PERVERTED: Sound Design
Jon Kinzel - “RESPONSIBLE BALLET AND WHAT WE NEED IS A BENCH TO PUT BOOKS ON" and other dance pieces: Music and Sound Design
“No Such Thing As Solo” SUNY Oswego: Sound Design, Musical Arrangements
- THE CURE AT TROY by Seamus Heaney: Music and Sound Design (with Nick Fritsch) for theatre performance
- "BETWEEN US" by Alexandra Stoll: Theme music for theater performance
- "CIVIL WOMAN" - Labapalooza, St. Ann's Warehouse: Music and Sound Design
SOUND DESIGN/MUSIC for FILM and ANIMATION
Ferron - THUNDER (blogspot): Film Post-Production Sound Mix
- Split Britches - LAST GASP WFH (see above)
Stacy Makishi and Runt Productions - CINEMA BIZARRE: Music, Sound Design
- Katherine Blakeney - THE DREAMS OF KINGS: Musical Arrangements, Music and Sound Recording and Editing; Audio Post-Production Mix and Mastering
Rosalie Sorrels - WAY OUT IN IDAHO: Post-Production Music Mix Engineer
- Eleanor Savage - GAZE: Music Arrangement for short independent film
- "SKY DISK": Original Musical Compositions performed with Airhead Orchestra for documentary film aired on PBS