The third annual New Original Works Festival features three weeks of experimentation, discovery and bold creative voices. Inventive Los Angeles performing artists are given a chance to take creative risks using REDCAT as a high-tech theatrical laboratory.

JOHN FLECK
The political and personal collide in a ferociously poignant and hysterically funny multimedia rollercoaster ride by acclaimed performance artist, actor, writer, and vocalist John Fleck. A collage of text, music, video and theatrical antics, Johnny's Got A Gun sends Fleck marching home, with his six-shooters strapped on, to challenge the way we think about parents, politicians, pistols, patriotic parades--and polka.

JULI CROCKETT
Maverick director Juli Crockett joins forces with adventurous composer Jeremy Zuckerman to invent a wildly imaginative form of music theater that is part puppet-epic and part rock opera--with several dashes of mythological storytelling. Orpheus Crawling is largely inspired by the legendary journey to Hell, but there is nothing ancient about this powerful piece of highly visual musical performance.

MATT WARDELL
Plastic cups powered by music-box mechanisms confront each other in a staged battle from sculptor Matt Wardell’s Civil War Reenactment. Condensed to mere minutes, but with an eye toward historical and statistical accuracy, this durational work pits its "soldiers"--emitting competing strains of Dixie and Yankee Doodle Dandy--in a lurching and mawkish conflict.

More NOW
Don't miss the other NOW Fest dates and performances:
Week 1 -- July 20–22 | Week 2 -- July 27-29

For student and CalArts alumni, faculty and staff discounts,
please call the REDCAT box office at 213-237-2800.