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Pictured are Marissa Keltie, Theo Black and Sylvia Kratins. Photo by Jay Yamada |
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“Toys in the Attic”
Colony Theatre
2003
Directed by Jessica Kubzansky
Dramaturg: Aaron Henne
Winner of Ovation Award for Best Play (Larger Theatre) |
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February 2011 – Central Works developed and premiered A Man’s Home…An Ode to Kafka’s Castle.
June 2010 – Blood Red Lost Head Dead Falcon: The Nibelungen is presented at Highways Performance Space as part of The La Opera’s Ring Festival LA.
May 2010 – The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County presents “I, Butterfly”, a daily show about Butterfly life cycles.
February 2010 – The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County presents “I Am Arachnid”, a spoken word/dance piece exploring spider mating rituals. A collaboration with LA Contemporary Dance Company.
October 2009 – "You Already Know" available through Amazon!
September 2009 – "You Already Know", Aaron's Playwriting guide, is published
by Writ Large Press.
June 2009 – The L.A. Contemporary Dance Company collaborates with Aaron to produce an original dance theatre performance entitled "The Body Mecanique" where bodies moving in space and rhythmic monologues collide, animating the voice and soul of everyday objects.
Summer 2008 – "King Cat Calico Finally Flies Free!" just published by Original Works Publishing.
For ordering information: originalworksonline.com
April 2008 – “Sliding Into Hades” at the Odyssey Theatre won LA Weekly Awards for
Playwriting and Production of the Year!
The Awards ceremony took place on April 7, 2008.
Blood Red Lost Head Dead Falcon: THE NIBELUNGEN - A Ring Festival Partner. Bringing together traditional and digital animation sequences, video art, original musical compositions, live performance, dance and lyrical language, this piece turns the ancient text into a modern multimedia extravaganza. The sage continues in 2011.
LA Contemporary Dance Company and Aaron Henne team again for two projects. One is a dance film inspired by Cotard's Delusion, a belief that one is dead while still living. January 2010.
The other is produced in collaboration with the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. It is an exploration of spiders and their beautiful, brutal mating habits.
February 2010.
K, the land surveyor in A Man’s Home speaks of his dreams:
Strange dreams.
As though my head is not my own.
(beat)
I am a regular man.
Not a Beetle.
A Bug is not a man so why should I need to make the distinction?
I am wearing a suit.
Not some hunger artist in rags
Hunger artist? As though I am starving?
I am standing in the street
Not burrowing in some cave
Burrow, well that sounds nice
And then my father walks over,
or I think it’s my father, some man, with big hands and large forearms
He presses his palm to my chest.
(beat)
Crack.
Is that a rib?
“How are you feeling?”
He says
“Fine”, I respond
even though my white shirt is now covered in blood.
“Fine, huh? Let me see your eyes.”
I look up and it’s you, Frieda.
But you look like Olga, Barnabas’ sister, with her round face.
No matter.
You pull your hand from my chest
And in it is my heart
You tell me to
“Eat”
I sink my teeth in
I have never eaten heart before, not like this
And oh, I have to admit, my dear Frieda Olga Woman, it is GOOD!
You take a bite
And I bite
(beat)
And then it is bile
A steaming mass of bile.
I can’t choke it down
Choke
Choke
Choke!
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