When the plague hit, the theaters closed, and my two beloved sisters (Sandy and Mary Anne) suddenly went conspiracy-adjacent. I survived by making THE AGED OF AQUARIUS, directed by the incomparable Leonard Pitt.

This solo show is a works-in-progress performance in preparation for the SF Fringe Festival in August. Come see it at 1638 University Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94703 on Sunday, July 16, 2023 at 7PM. Tickets are FREE! but seats are limited, so RSVP here:

Also on the bill is Pamela Hollings performing her work-in-progress, MACHIAVELLI /SFORZA, along with Greta Turken.

The full performances of THE AGED OF AQUARIUS will be at the SF FRINGE FESTIVAL on these dates:

SUN AUG 13 2:30 PM The Aged of Aquarius; FRI AUG 18 7:00 PM The Aged of Aquarius; SAT AUG 19 4:00 PM The Aged of Aquarius. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased here:

 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-aged-of-aquarius-tickets-655843314007

Tomorrow night will be the very first time I perform THE MOBY DICK DIARIES, the whole sheebang. It’s also the first time I perform at the Exit Theater in SF.

Guess what?

Downstage the Exit Theater has a ladder attached to a pillar that goes up to the ceiling. It’s maybe 20 feet up. During the dance finale, I’ll climb up that pillar to the imaginary “crow’s nest” and look out over the ocean as part of my dance finale.

How high should I climb? Five feet? Ten feet? Fifteen? Twenty?????? Yowza! I haven’t decided. I’m excited to find out myself!

These days I walk around feeling like the first time I dove off the high dive at the Porterville Plunge–heart-expandingly thrilled and knee-buckling terrified at the same time in the same body.

No matter how much I’ve rehearsed, the show doesn’t exist until it’s in front of an audience.  Speaking of audience, who do you know that needs a little nighttime excitement in their lives?

Please tell them about the show. And please join me for this super-charged premiere of THE MOBY DICK DIARIES Saturday the 13th or Friday the 19th.

“Andrea Mock’s The Moby Dick Diaries looks especially intriguing.”

Theater critic, Jean Schiffman, ARTS/SF Monthly

Grab your tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2912061.

 

Click the link to view the trailer for “Call Me Ishwhale“– the dance finale from THE MOBY DICK DIARIES.

Hi Friends,

Last year I told you about my workshop production of The Moby Dick Diaries at The Marsh in San Francisco. After a metric ton of buffing, polishing, and major permitted remodeling (OM effen G, ladies, and gents, please put two hands together for my patience-of-Job directors!), the show lunges towards its adrenaline surging, lung-pounding premiere, May 13^th and 19^th.  

TMDD is part of the Yes To Everything Series curated by producer Mary Alice Fry. Last Sunday, theater critic Jean Schiffman wrote in the SF/ARTS monthly, “ The Moby Dick Diaries looks especially intriguing.”

YAY for me!!!

No, wait. Seriously. Everybody’s show “looks especially intriguing.” Slap some color into the cheeks of your imagination by checking out these descriptions:

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2912061

If you buy a ticket online, I get 15% of the proceeds!

Here’s the updated description of my show.

THE MOBY DICK DIARIES, set during the Trump election, is an updated, semi-fictional, semi-autobiographical account of how—growing up in Porterville—Andrea Mock ended up as a Berkeley modern dance choreographer.

Your basic white girl, a goat-roper, LEE WEST, reads then decides to choreograph Moby Dick as her ticket out of her depressing, drought-stricken, California town. Blowing her off course is her eco-warrior boyfriend, DAVID MONROE, who demands “What good is Art if we all fry from global warming?” LEE’s answer is Call Me Ishwhale, a modern dance for Porterville’s Got Talent talent show. Her dance doesn’t save the earth, nor her relationship with DAVID but does save one quirky girl from a life trapped in a stifling town. Lee discovers in her bones, the joy of creation and the self-agency and strength to prevail in a romantic conflict of wills which becomes her rite of artistic passage.

The story is told with a metric ton of mime, movement and, dance with original music by composer, Victor Spiegel.

Director: Leonard Pitt

Developed With: David Ford

Performance Consultants: Mark Kenward

Deborah Eubanks

Original Music: Victor Spiegel

TICKETS: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2912061

 

Get a load of this!

Trailer for “Call Me Ishwhale”, from the Moby Dick Diaries