Friday, January 6, 2017

Theater: Hundred Days (Under the Radar Festival)


Conceived by Abigail and Shaun Bengson
Book, Music and Lyrics by Abigail and Shaun Bengson
Additional Material by Sarah Gancher
Directed by Anne Kauffman

Featuring Abigail Bengson, Shaun Bengson, Colette Alexander, Geneva Harrison, Jo Lampert, and Reggie D. White

Hundred Days is the uncensored, exhilarating, and heartrending true story of how Abigail and Shaun Bengson met and fell in love, and how that love unleashed their terror of mortality. With magnetic chemistry and anthemic folk-punk music, the Bengsons explore the fundamental question of how to make the most of the time that we have.
Hundred Days was created by Abigail and Shaun Bengson with their collaborators Anne Kauffman and Sarah Gancher.
American folk/rock duo The Bengsons have performed their music worldwide. Theatre and Dance:You'll Still Call Me By Name (NYLA), Anything That Gives Off Light (Edinburgh Theater Festival),The Place We Built (The Flea), Iphigenia in Aulis (CSC). Upcoming: Sun DownYellow Moon (Ars Nova, Women’s Project), The Lucky Ones (Ars Nova), and a LCT commission.
Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/05/theater/hundred-days-review-under-the-radar.html?_r=0