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AMP Gallery is really pleased to invite you to a very special in-gallery performance of Jay Critchley's "Bound East for Easter Rebellion", a one-act play written by Jay Critchley, directed by Stuard M. Derrick, and performed by Tom Thompson and Runn Shayo!!
Look forward to welcoming you!
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This year is the Centennial of both Eugene O’Neill’s debut in Provincetown and the Irish Easter Rebellion that led to an Irish Republic. This one-act, with music, brings O’Neill and Padraig Pearse, a poet and leader of the uprising, together. O’Neill’s Bound East for Cardiff becomes the backbone of this experimental adaptation.
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Jay Critchley is a conceptual and multi-media artist and activist whose work has traversed the globe, showing across the US and in Argentina, Japan, England, Spain, France, Holland, Germany and Columbia. He founded the controversial patriotic Old Glory Condom Corporation and was recently featured in Sculpture magazine. His 2011 show in Chelsea, NYC received key reviews in the New York Times, The New Yorker and the Village Voice. He created the inspired “Ten Days That Shook the World” in 2012 before the demolition of the 1953 Herring Cove Beach Bathhouse.
Jay’s movie, “Toilet Treatments”, won an HBO Award at Provincetown Film Festival in 2002, where he was featured last year in conjunction with his survey show at the Provincetown Art Association & Museum, “Jay Critchley, Incorporated”. The show recently traveled to Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.
He has taught at the Museum School of Fine Arts, Boston, and has had artist residencies at: Harvard University; AS220, Rhode Island; Harvestworks, NYC; Williams College, MA; Real Art Ways, Hartford; Milepost 5, Portland, OR; Fundacion Valparaiso, Mojacar, Andalucia, Spain; and CAMAC, Marnay-sur-Seine, France.
Jay was honored in 2012 by the Massachusetts State Legislature as an artist and director of the Provincetown Community Compact, producer of the Swim for Life & Paddler Flotilla, raising $4M for AIDS and women’s health. His one act experimental musical, “Planet Snowvio”, about the meeting of Free Speech Movement leader Mario Savio and NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden was recently read at UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
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Stuard M. Derrick studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in NYC, the Summer Shakespeare Session at London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts where he played Leontes in "The Winter’s Tale," the Harvard Shakespeare Workshop, and playwriting as an undergraduate at Columbia University. In 1993 he was invited by the Provincetown Public Library to present a one-man show on Eugene O’Neill and has since presented at the Library evenings devoted to O’Neill, Tennessee Williams, Susan Glaspell, Harry Kemp, and Wilbur Daniel Steele. He currently is the director of "O'Neill 100," the Library's year long centennial celebration of O'Neill's debut as a playwright in Provincetown. Stuard portrayed Yank, the dying seaman, in the 80th O’Neill Anniversary 1996 production of "Bound East for Cardiff" for the Provincetown Theatre Company, and produced and directed the 90th Anniversary O’Neill evening in 2006 at PAAM. He has twice received ACTE Best Actor nominations for his PTC roles of Mendy in "The Lisbon Traviata" and Siegfried Sassoon in "Not About Heroes." Stuard has written for the Columbia University “Spectator,” “Provincetown Magazine,” and the "Provincetown Banner."
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Tom Thompson, who plays Eugene O’Neill, works as a professional space planner & designer, color analyst, constructor, remodeler, painter and modeling clay liberator. He performed the role of the boyfriend in Provincetown Theatre Company’s “Message to Michael” by Tim Pinckney. He is active in classical life drawing and oil painting, sculpture, and music - the piano and voice. Tom enjoys sun, sea and other weather-related activities – swimming, boating, cycling, and jogging. He is very excited to be performing and singing once again in "Bound East for Easter Rebellion."
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Runn Shayo, who plays Irish rebel Padraig Pearse, is a Brooklyn-based, conceptual, performance and video artist, and an actor, a dancer, and a filmmaker. He recently portrayed the characters of Dr. Faustus in “Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights” by Gertrude Stein at Provincetown Theater, Alexander Grand Bell at the History Channel, and he co-starred in the feature film “Ego Auxiliary.” He was recently selected for the Immigrant Artist Program at the New York Foundation for the Arts. Runn’s solo works have been presented at: Art Market Provincetown, Fleet Moves Festival, Vox Populi Philadelphia, FLIC Festival, LOIKKA, and in Finland, among others. His film acting includes: "Mind Fuck", "Auxiliary Ago", "Adam and Steve", "Valentine's Day", and others. His most recent performance art piece, "The Artist is Not Present", was performed in galleries in New York and Seattle.
