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With Dan Daly, Fall 2023

Written by jose sebastian alberdi Scenic Design by Gaya Maria Chatterjee

POCKET CHANGE is an anthology of eleven short plays your coins perform for you. Housed within a small cardboard theater, named Lin-coin Cent-er, the plays use literal coins as the actors. The complete project consists of this theater, a small booklet containing the plays and associated notes, and a series of backdrops created for each of the plays. Basically, POCKET CHANGE is an intimate piece of toy theater that can be performed by anyone, anywhere. https://dandalydesign.gumroad.com/l/pocketchange

The playwrights anthologized in POCKET CHANGE are:

jose sebastian alberdi, Jonathan Alexandratos, Dan Daly, John Michael DiResta, Anisa George and three six-year-olds, Bryan Halperin, Nikolai Mishler, Clay (Claire) Moodey, Grace Oberhofer, Andrew Rincón, Ashley Lauren Rogers

The scenic designers and illustrators anthologized in POCKET CHANGE are:

Gaya Chatterjee, Caitlin Ayer, Jacquelyn Guiterrez, Laura Valenti, Jessica Emerson, Dahlia Al-Habieli, Shiny Skunk, Lex Gernon-Wyatt, Chris Raintree, Thomas Lauria, Jess Goerold

POCKET CHANGE is the first piece created under the moniker of OTHER FORMS OF (OFO) THEATER, a new way to categorize the small theatrical and installation work helmed by Dan Daly.

OTHER FORMS OF (OFO) THEATER creates and supports performances that do not fit neatly into the definition of “theatre” and exist below what is deemed commercially viable. We experiment with the theatrical form and rethink what performance is, not just artistically but also structurally. We test out new forms of artistic creation, financing structures, and organizational layouts. Through this we discover ways to make theatre more equitable, just, and fair. Ofo Theater is committed to exceptionally small, experimental, works that cannot scale, performances that eschew historic theatrical space, and shows that only tangentially relate to what we are taught theater is.