Strange Attractor

12/28/2023

Nearly a year ago we decided to officially put Strange Attractor to bed, but I finally updated the webiste to reflect as much.

We've loved making work together for the past decade under the banner of attracting strange and know that everything we made will always live inside of everything we're making. Jed and I are launching a new RI-based project soon and Aram and Roblin are always up to something in Philly and Juneau respectively. We may even make something together again at some point. Putting an end on something can feel really good tho -- closing the lid on a container lets me see the whole thing. It's a really beautiful thing, if I do say so myself. Thanks to all of you who joined us along the way.

If you wanna dig into a sweet archive of our work, I'm gonna keep this site up until Squarespace dies -- and even then I'll find a way.

Strange Attractor Theatre creates unexpected performance that challenges the popular conception of live theatre while engaging new audiences with original, high-caliber, physically devised work in Rhode Island, Alaska and Philadelphia.

11/12/2019

We are pleased and honored to thank Rhode Island and Matthew Lawrence and the for awarding She Died for Our Convenience with two for 2019: Best (theater) Curveball and Best Choral Performance. Major thanks to our awe-inspiring collaborators Chrissy Wolpert and (some of) Assembly of Light Choir, Priscilla Carrion, Emily Shapiro, Clara Weishahn, Andy Russ, Hernan Jourdan, Tyra Wilson, Ronald Kevin Lewis, and Talley Murphy. Thanks also to Providence Preservation Society, Loren Spears and the Tomaquag Museum, Providence Art Culture Tourism, Earnscliffe Woolen-Paragon Worsted Company Mill Complex and of course all of the spirits who have haunted that place. We love you Providence.

We are surrounded by ghosts. We hear their stories through the objects, buildings, and traditions they’ve left behind. She Died for Our Convenience was a one-night-only choral haunting concerning the women who worked from 1898-1960 in the textile mill at the Earnscliffe Woolen Mill/Paragon Worsted...

08/18/2019

Priscilla Carrion is an amazing person. Among *many* things she was a crucial and joyful collaborator on last spring's project "She Died for Our Convenience." We're glad to help create space for her to heal her body so she can get back to making dreams come true. We hope you join us in this support.

Dear Friends and supporters of Priscilla near and far,In July last year, Priscilla fell hard in her backyard and twisted her leg, and she's been having trouble with intense pain ever since. Unfortunately, due to the need to work and survive, she didn't initially slow down enough to heal properly....

06/04/2019

One month later and we're ready to show you the receipts.

06/04/2019

We are surrounded by ghosts. We hear their stories through the objects, buildings, and traditions they’ve left behind. She Died for Our Convenience was a one-night-only choral haunting concerning the women who worked from 1898-1960 in the textile mill at the Earnscliffe Woolen Mill/Paragon Worsted Co. on Manton Ave in the Olneyville neighborhood in Providence, RI.

On the evening of May 4, 2019 we encountered a large community chorus, led by Chrissy Wolpert, singing melodies dedicated to the women at the very place they labored. We endeavored to sing the songs to unsung labor, while remembering that we are all but tomorrow’s ghosts.

05/02/2019

Last night's rehearsal for She Died for Our Convenience. The singers met the costumes (by Priscilla Carrion). Tonight we get to meet the mill. See you Saturday at 7pm!

P.S. The show says it's sold out on-line but there are no chairs and we are in a giant outdoor space, so please come if you have the inclination. No one will be turned away.

Rehearsal in costume. Imagine this but at the mill on May 4, 2019.

05/01/2019

Friends who want to see She Died for Our Convenience but didn't reserve tickets through the Eventbrite, it is apparently sold out, but that doesn't mean we're full. It's an outdoor space and we have room for literally hundreds of people. Please don't let the algorithms fool you. Get on PVD Preservation Society's waiting list and for goodness sake just come on down Saturday night.

Sites and Stories Explored Through Community Engaged Art and Scholarship The Providence Preservation Society has engaged five artists / artist teams to create new works related to four of our 2018 Most Endangered Properties. Artist presentations and performances will take place in April and May. Ple...

05/01/2019

We are gearing up for Saturday's choral haunting. We can feel the women getting ready for us. She Died for Our Convenience is manifesting into something unmissable. See you May 4 at Earnscliffe Woolen-Paragon Worsted Company Mill Complex.

Rehearsal of the Circles in SDFOC, composed by Chrissy Wolpert and sung by a community chorus. Imagine it at Paragon Mill at night on May 4, 2019.

04/24/2019

She Died for Our Convenience only happens once for the public at Earnscliffe Woolen-Paragon Worsted Company Mill Complex, but we sure are working in rehearsal. Check out Monday as we learned THE MACHINE.

She Died for Our Convenience is a one-night-only choral haunting on May 4, 2019 at Paragon Mill in Providence dedicated to the women who worked in the textile mill…

04/16/2019

Wanna hear something beautiful? Check this taste of She Died for Our Convenience rehearsal from last night.

See you May 4 at the Earnscliffe Woolen-Paragon Worsted Company Mill Complex. Emily Shapiro, Andy Russ, Jed Brainerd, Priscilla Carrion, Clara Weishahn, and Conductor/Composer (not-on-fb) Chrissy Wolpert, and Rebecca Noon will all be there.

04/14/2019

Thanks BroadwayWorld for the wonderful words on She Died for Our Convenience!

Strange Attractor Theatre Company in collaboration with composer Chrissy Wolpert, the Providence Preservation Society and a community chorus of (cis & trans) women, two spirit, and non-binary people will be presenting She Died for Our Convenience at the Earnscliffe/Paragon Mills in Olneyville in Pro...