joined on 05/28/04
last updated 11/09/09
December 26, 2007
~Cosmic Ian, Performance artist, poet, Mime, Puppeteer of this dimension. The ancient energy you connect modern audiences with is special and unique! Your love of your art form and Individuality is a lesson for us all. I always look forward to your performances because for one brief moment I am not in the twenty-first century time/space but another place, not necessarily a time but a sensation, a mirror into other worlds filled with splendid divine and demonic characters~
about me
Ian Thal is a multimedia artist who works in the media of poetry, mime, and puppet theatre, frequently collaborating with Cosmic Spelunker Theater, a troupe he co-founded with William J. Barnum and James Van Looy in 2001 and also performs with i Sebastiani "The Greatest Commedia dell'Arte Troupe in the Entire World!" In addition, he has performed with Bread & Puppet Theater and as part of the Dresden Dolls' Brigade.
His play, "Total War", was a semi-finalist in the 2009 Dorothy Silver Playwriting Competition, and he also performs his one-man play, "Arlecchino Am Ravenous" whenever and wherever possible.
His poetry has appeared in Out of the Blue Writers Unite (Crooked River Press, 2003), Tokens: Contemporary Poetry of the Subway (P&Q Press, 2003) and has work forthcoming in Becoming Fire (Andover-Newton Pess, 2006) as well as in such magazines as Boom! For Real, Crooked River Press, Flash!Point, Ibbetson Street Press, and Poesy. His work also appeared as part of an installation during the 2003 Boston CyberArts Festival
He also served as a mime and commedia dell'arte instructor at the Huntington Theatre, the Stoneham Theatre, Brookline Community Center for the Arts and Open Air Circus.
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Staged Reading of "Total War," a play by Ian Thal
(events » arts)
Sunday, October 11, 2009 - 8:00 PM
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Last time Ian Thal staged a reading of his play, Total War, at Cambridge’s Outpost 186, the event was picketed by a lone protester with several signs and placards who accosted both audience and actors as they arrived.
Despite the provocations, which included a number of anti-Semitic chants, Thal regarded the evening a success, as it allowed him the opportunity to present a stripped down reading of the play and make plans for a rewrite of a play that had already been named a semi-finalist in the 2009 Dorothy Silver Playwriting Competition.
Total War is a five-act play set at a Catholic university where the student newspaper has published a Holocaust denial advertisement. Before faculty, students, and staff can begin the expected dialogue on free speech and religious pluralism, an anarchist-cell using the nom de guerre of “Total War” begins a campaign of guerrilla art attacks.
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I don't actively use the Tribe blog feature anymore since I prefer something less gated like blogspot, but I thought my tribe friends would want to check this out:
ianthal.blogspot.com/2008/06...lle.html
This past month I paid tribute to one of my heroes, the late Marcel Marceau, and follow a controversy of which I first wrote this past April regarding the exhibition of an artwork that contained Holocaust denial material:
ianthal.blogspot.com/2007/09/
Sun, September 2, 2007 - 7:49 AM
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