THE SINCERITY PROJECT #2 (2016)
An ambitious 24 year performance experiment.
Presented in September 2016 by FringeArts at Plays & Players Theater as part of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival
The second iteration of an audacious 24-year performance experiment, The Sincerity Project captures the passage of time and its impact on the bodies and psyches of a group of individuals. Every two to three years, the same seven-person ensemble reassembles, engaging in a long-term process of creating and recreating structured performance over time. Together they piece a quilt of real lives, memories, predictions, ultimately displaying achievement of the unknown dream and loss of the unrealized future. The Sincerity Project is a theatrical anti-play ritual. It is a public accounting for the lives and communities we create. It is a true combination of life and art; an encounter with all that is beautiful and terrifying, funny and sublime.
Photos by Jen Cleary
Cast & Team
Performer/Creators: Aram Aghazarian, Benjamin Camp, Rachel Camp, Makoto Hirano, Jenna Horton, Mel Krodman, Iris McCloughan
Director: Alex Torra
Set Designer: Kristen Robinson
Costume Designer: Natalia de la Torre
Lighting Designer: Anshuman Bhatia
Sound Designer: Patrick Lamborn
Production Manager: Lauren Tracy
Stage Manager: Noelle Johnson
Assistant Director: Emma Wells
Audience Experience Manager: Liz Green
Responses to The Sincerity Project #2
“The Sincerity Project has turned the lives of its makers into art and the performance of this art into a way of life. I’m simply blown away by the scope and ambition of their merging. If these guys stay true to their promise they’ll outshine every ensemble that’s ever existed, and I’m looking forward to getting older so I can see them do it.”
“This electrifying tell-all experience is not to be missed.”
“For me, I smiled the whole way out of the theater after it was breathlessly finished — “The Sincerity Project (2016)” is an act of pure chutzpah on the part of its cast members. And by association, on the part of the audience.”
Special Thanks and Support
Shown in progress at FringeArts LAB space and with the First Person Arts RAW Program. The Sincerity Project was developed, in part, with assistance from The Orchard Project, a program of The Exchange (www.exchangenyc.org). Jen Cleary, Photographer.
