A Store of Sucking Stones
Photo by Zach Steel
A Store of Sucking Stones tells the simple story of a man and his 16 sucking stones. Employing a text fragment from Samuel Beckett’s novel Molloy, the narrative documents the comprehensive sucking strategies of this recluse as he wracks both brain and body, determined to solve this most pressing of problems.
Artists Involved: Performed, edited, created by Jeff Larson; videographed, co-created by Zach Steel.
Lead Artists: JEFF LARSON has designed video for Big Dance Theater’s Supernatural Wife and Comme Toujours Here I Stand (2009 Bessie Award Winner) and he is currently designing video for Man in a Case, directed by Paul Lazar and Annie-B Parson. Jeff curates “everyone’s favorite performance series” CATCH with cohorts Andrew Dinwiddie and Caleb Hammons. Jeff directed Andrew Dinwiddie’s Get Mad at Sin!, which premiered at The Chocolate Factory (2010), and has since been presented at Fusebox Festival, the TBA Festival, and the San Diego Museum of Art. He is an Adjunct Faculty member of the Design Department for Stage at Film at NYU where he also serves as the Supervisor for Second Year Production.
ZACH STEEL has studied the performing arts at New York University Tisch School of the Arts (Stella Adler Conservatory, Experimental Theater Wing, and the international program in Amsterdam). He has performed original works in various theaters throughout New York, and has spent the last four years in Los Angeles studying clown under David Bridel as well as performing with the clown troupe, Four Clowns. He has taught clown and improv at CalArts and UCLA Performing Arts Summer Camp and will be teaching clown at The Clown School in Los Angeles as well as the Adat Shalom Synagogue starting in the Fall. He currently appears regularly on the Disney television show A.N.T. Farm, and has made appearances on NBC’s Parenthood, and Kath & Kim. Look for him on the upcoming Comedy Central web series, Book Club, written by Zach along with Adam Nee.
Upcoming: Catch 53 at The Invisible Dog in October and A Man in a Case at Hartford Stage in February 2013.