MARLBORO — Kingdom County Productions and Marlboro College will present a rare live presentation of The Queue, an 80-minute performance by the Chicago-based dance troupe Lucky Plush.
Showtime is Thursday, Oct. 1, at 7 p.m., at the Serkin Center Dance Studio at Marlboro College. Tickets for the show, featuring seven dancers accompanied by live musicians, are $17 general admission and $10 for students. They will be available at the door or through the Catamount Regional Box Office at 802-748-2600. Online advance sales are available at KingdomCounty.org.
Equal parts dance and theater, The Queue unfolds in a fictional airport where travelers stumble humorously, tragically, and awkwardly into the high stakes of each other's private lives.
The performance will combine slapstick, vaudeville, Busby Berkeley-style choreography, creaky one-act plays, and a 1746 farcical play about family inheritance - all featuring Lucky Plush's blend of high-level dancing, acting, and off-the-cuff improvisation.
The Queue is choreographed and created by Lucky Plush founder/director Julia Rhoads and collaborator Leslie Danzig. Plush Productions is a Chicago-based ensemble dance-theater company led by founding Artistic Director Rhoads. The company is committed to what they describe as “provoking and supporting an immediacy of presence - a palpable live-ness - shared by performers in real time with audiences.”
A hybrid of high-level dance and theater, Lucky Plush's work blends complex choreography, surprising humor, and socially relevant content. The troupe has premiered more than 30 original works, including 13 full-length productions around the country.
The Queue performance is funded in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and is also supported by the Expeditions Fund of the New England Foundation for the Arts, made possible with funding from the NEA, with additional support from the six New England Arts Agencies.
Lucky Plush's The Queue is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation Fund project, co-commissioned by the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts in partnership with Links Hall and NPN. The NPN Creation Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, The Ford Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.