Previous Projects

By: Kate Kohler Amory

Workshop/ Development - Sharing Events, October 2020

During these unprecedented times, the community of artists at The Ridiculous Project have found that storytelling, even on Zoom, can be an important and effective means of forging connection. Founding Artistic Director, Kate Kohler Amory, is writing a new play “Pandemic Plays 2020” that explores with honesty and humor the layers of chaos that our world, our communities and ourselves have been facing. The play provokes a necessary and inspiring reflection of humanity during the 2020 Pandemic and offers hope for the future. While we are still living through some of these unprecedented times, we invite you to engage with these excerpts from the script in progress. Surely you will be inspired to share your own pandemic story!

Directed by: Jenney Dale Holland

September 5th -14th , 2014

The Birds is a riotous, interactive and unique theatrical experience that challenges its audience to live a more full and vibrant life. This new adaptation will follow Pisthetairos as she seeks out a free existence with The Birds, a group of vagabond gypsies who have dropped out of mainstream society. The project will use clowning to help make the story of The Birds come alive. Seating will be thirty seats each night in order to create a more intimate and visceral experience.

-Jenney Dale Holland - Danny Audette

- Kyle Gregory - Peter Murphy

- Rachel Alexander - Ayako Tanigaito

- Kate Kohler Amory - Alex Deroo

- Francis Norton - Alex Portenko

At Salem Arts Festival 2015

Join us for this strange adaption of an old classic. Naturally , we at the Ridiculous Project cannot just do "normal". Whatever that is. So, when we started working on our summer street performance act we ended up with this odd little nugget of entertainment. 20 minutes, 2 actors, 1 musician and a narrator. I mean, what more does the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet require?

Featuring:

Peter Mercury as Romeo

Kaylin Molina as Juliet

Jenney Dale as the Musician

Kate Kohler Amory as the Narrator

The Ridiculous Project revisits and re-imagines

O. Henry's sentimental tale of a young couples

first Christmas and their challenge to buy each

other gifts with nothing more than $1.87 and

their two most prized possessions. New life will

be brought to this tale through movement, clowning, and musical selections from Jenney Dale Holland and Colin Colford.

Written by Kyle Gregory

Director: Ozan Haksever

Movement Director: Peter Murphy

Music Direction: Colin Colford and Jenney Dale