Contact Information
P.O. Box 38524
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office Phone: 215.407.0556
Box Office Phone: 215.407.0556
Email: gas.electric.arts@verizon.net
Website: www.gasandelectricarts.org

Mission
Gas & Electric Arts' mission is to create highly-refined, viscerally evocative theatre that engages our hearts, senses and imagination while broaching oft-unspoken but ever-present social concerns. We seek to create theatre that is storytelling at its best: visually engaging, theatrically nourishing, and responsive to the currents impacting our lives today. We want audiences to experience new performance that shimmers with theatricality but shivers with social reality. Through our imaginative productions, community-based workshops, theatre training intensives and gatherings, Gas & Electric Arts strives to build a community around theatre that is brave, humorous, seductive, spiritual and political because it asks more of us.

Description
Gas & Electric Arts is a theatre producing organization that mounts original works, primarily by contemporary women playwrights. Led by Artistic Director Lisa Jo Epstein, Gas & Electric Arts is theatre that combines corporeal, visual, vocal and spatial investigations. It exists at the intersection of a spectrum of theatrical forms--from the epic, disciplined physical work of the Théâtre du Soleil to the joy of stage clowning, from gestural, movement-based art theater to new forms of vocal exploration advocated by Roy Hart practitioners. This type of theatre leaves quotidian expression behind as the actors devise vivid, extra-ordinary forms for their bodies which enable them to be instruments of passion, to be resonators of our time. Like electricity in action, the intangible that sparks energy, Gas & Electric Arts creates theatre that stimulates us to think again, to live more fully in the present moment, and to never forget the power of our five senses. To this end, in addition to our productions and post-show dialogues, we offer theatre workshops for artists to continue honing and expanding their skills as well as facilitate interactive experiential Theatre for Social Action workshops for actors and "non-actors" alike in a variety of communities.

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