welcome to the unusual world of
C O L O U R S
a nonsense
Welcome to the Unusual World of
C O L O U R S
a nonsense
by Natasha Tsakos
THE PLAY
COLOURS is an absurd tragicomedy for six characters.
The play engages the audience on a fool’s odyssey as he battles to make sense
of a new world upon surviving an apocalyptic catastrophe, in search of a bathtub.
A Peculiar Commentary on the Human Condition Facing the Perplexities of Modernity
"Better than Ionesco"
-Jorge Guerra, Former Dean of Theater, New World School of the Arts
Written, Designed and Directed by NATASHA TSAKOS
Co-Directed by the ENSEMBLE and TRAVIS NEFF
Master and His Dog LUCKY BRUNO First & Second Servant & The Operator MALIA'KEKIA
Third Servant DIANA LOZANO The Fool NATASHA TSAKOS
Production Monster ART GARCIA Stage Officer TRAVIS NEFF
Lighting Deviser LEN ROWE Filmed by CARLOS ANDRES CUERVO
Styled by CIRC X and NATASHA TSAKOS Strange Objects PROP PLANET
©Inside The Box Series @MIAMI THEATER CENTER Made Possible by STEPHANIE ANSIN
Tsakos has produced and created 9 multimedia shows including 2 for the Discovery Channel, written 12 original works, and is the published author of 2 books. She opened the G20 Summit with her show Climax, and has performed with Cirque du Soleil for the Super Bowl Opening Ceremony and at Coachella. Ms. Tsakos is a Singularity University alumni, and an advocator for the convergence of Arts and Technology...
Lucky has a BFA from the University of Miami Musical Theater Conservatory. He is a resident voice and movement director for the Miami Theater Center , a resident choreographer for The Mandelstam Theater / Gymnastics Academy . He has worked with Cirque du Sole/ NFL Super Bowl '07. Lucky was a founding member of the Dance Now modern dance company, and he apprenticed with the Bill T. Jones /Arnie Zane Dance Company in NYC. He has been a company...
Graduating Summa Cum Laude, Diana Lozano holds an M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts in Performance Art, Design and Technology through the schools of Theater, and Integrated Media. Currently, Mrs. Lozano teaches at the New World School of the Arts where she also received her B.F.A. in Musical Theater. After grad school, Diana went on to further her studies in clowning and mask at the Dell Arte School in Blue Lake, California. In 2002, Diana founded Circ X an event entertainment...
Teaching artist, actress, stilt walker, smile giver and choreographer. She graduated as Salutatorian from New World School of the Arts with a BFA in Music Theater. Malia is an Ensemble Member of Creatively Independent, a revolutionary arts education company. Recent credits: Henry Morton Stanley in “Legend of the Pink Elephant” (Lucky Luckner Bruno/ MTC), Helena in "Midsummer Night's Dream" (Creatively Independent), Diana in "I Love You Because" (Punchline Theater Company), Queen of Hearts...
Travis Neff is a Miami native with a successful career as Stage Manager / Lighting Designer / Technical Director. Touring with Natasha Tsakos and numerous Miami-based dance companies, projects have taken him to Havana, São Paulo, Bali, Beijing, throughout Mexico and Central America, the Bahamas and Europe. Travis enjoys filmmaking, serves on the Board of Directors for Crystal Parrot and is thrilled to be working with Natasha again, bringing you COLOURS on the live stage.
Len Rowe is a lighting specialist whose work is a fixture of the Miami scene. From building the lighting systems for LIV and Arcadia at the Fontainebleau and programming shows at E11EVEN, the Fillmore, Crobar, Nocturnal, Univision, Faena Theater and many more, to lighting design for Michael Tilson Thomas's performances at the New World Center, Rowe's been hard at work creating for 22 years. He recently founded Bright Future Lighting Design, a company he runs with his partner, Jette Kelly.
Production Monster
Prop Magician
Cinema>to<Grapher
Playwright, theater director, and Founder and Artistic Director of Miami Theater Center. Her work has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Knight Foundation, and The Shubert Foundation. Other honors include: Finalist for the Ellen Stewart International Award (2016) and Silver Palm Award for Outstanding Creative Staging and Production for Three Sisters (2013). In 2016, she spoke at TEDxCoconut, and she is currently participating in Miami-Dade County’s two-year Playwright...
IN A THEATER NEAR YOU
THE ART BOOK
Each page of the play has been crafted as a singular work of art through composition and typography.
"The book is entirely and intentionally composed of a mixture of real and imaginary words”, twisted, invented, pun intended. COLOURS bridges philosophy, absurdity and design in a judiciously dynamic way.
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"Visually Stunning"
-IBPA Benjamin Franklin Review
"Creative, colorful, and inventive”
-IBPA Benjamin Franklin Review
THE AWARD WINNING EBOOK
"The outrageous misuse of language, wildly changing fonts and outlandish layout made
an incredible visual impact, to go along with the aural impact of the author's reading."
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THE REVIEWS
"I have never written this to anyone. Colours is a small masterpiece”
-Ruth Resnikoff, Former Director of Play Readings, Mosaic Theater
"Delightful, intriguing, insightful, hilarious, and unsettling”
-David Livingstone Smith, Author
“Better than Ionesco”
- Jorge Guerra, Former Dean of Theater, New World School of the Arts
“The book is crazy”
-Jim McCarthy, CEO Goldstar
“You read it again and you read it again, and every time you read it,
you take something slightly different out of it."
-Ron Anthony, Music Producer, The Kinected
“Amazingly inventive, I laughed out loud a few times, and I love the concocted words, which oddly made perfect sense. Beautiful typography. A really impressive work"
-Jay Iorio, Innovation Director, IEEE Standards Association
WHAT THE JUDGES HAD TO SAY
"There was an almost Shakespearean aspect of play to this work, like a children's book for adults as experienced through a haze of confusion. I think I really liked it, but I have no idea at all how it could be marketed. "
"Purely amazing."
"The ebook seems intended to break all conventions (of language and genre), which it does – thoroughly shatters them, in fact. I can't rate it highly for conventionally good use of grammar or spelling because it was intentionally awful. Even colloquial spelling for internal monolog doesn’t cover anything like Colours. The scores for creativity and design should get all the weight, because that’s where it aims, and where it succeeds wildly (very wildly)."
"On first experience, I hated the ebook. It seemed like harsh, shrill, nonsensical gibberish. By the eighth time I went through it, I actually liked it quite a bit. It still felt surreal, but the harshness was mitigated by the desire to find a story in the chaos. I still had a very hard time with the misused/malformed language, but I understood, to some extent, where the author was trying to go with it. Colours is certainly creative, colorful, and inventive. It made me think from the fool's perspective, which opened up all sorts of ideas. The philosophy I drew from it was unexpectedly deep. This book is literally a partnership between the creator and the reader, as the meaning came as much from my work reading it as it did from the author's work creating it."
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THE EXHIBIT
Walk Into the Fantastical World of COLOURS
And Discover a Stunning Exhibit of the Book's Artwork, Living Portraits,
Holographic Word Factory, The Box, 6D Gallery,
and Bizarre Interactive Theatrical Installations
"Delightful, intriguing, insightful,
hilarious, and unsettling"
-David Livingstone Smith, Author
THE WORD FACTORY
Because Language Is Invented. Let's Invent Ours.
We Will Preciously Save Your Entries As You Submit Them,
And Carefully Craft a New Clopedia,
Where Yours Will Be Credited Truly
SUBMIT YOUR WORD BELOW
Tasty Granite Gloves: /ˈtāstē /ˈɡranət / ɡləvz /
noun : unknown definition
submitted by Dakota Dach 11.28.2019
Mathematicosurgerist: /maTH(ə)ˈmadiksoˈsərj(ə)rist/
noun : a surgeon of mathematics
Tonga: /ˈtäNGɡə/
verb : to reboot
submitted by Penelope Lehner 16.21.2020
"Insane misuse of language!"
-IBPA Benjamin Franklin Review
THE MONO LOG
CHALLENGE
We Dare You to Submit a Succinct Video
Of an Insane Monologue from the Show
We Will Select the Best Entries as they Come,
and Highlight Them In Our Kingdom Dot Com
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+ RECORD YOURSELF + PUBLISH VIDEO + SUBMIT YOUR LINK
NATASHA TSAKOS in COLOURS
GRAND MA in COLOURS
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KEVIN HART in COLOURS
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JIM CARREY in COLOURS
Your Mono Log
AL PACINO in COLOURS
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YOUR MOM in COLOURS
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Ms. Tsakos is a conceptual director, interactive designer, creator and performer who works on brave new forms of theater where performers and technology coalesce in a dreamlike yet sharply real stage environment. Within this space of total possibility, the Swiss-native muses on the deepest questions of the human soul.
Ms. Tsakos has produced and created nine multimedia shows including two for the Discovery Channel, written twelve original works, and is the published author of two books -- including COLOURS, a nonsense, which won the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Digital Award. She opened the G20 Summit with her show Climax, and has performed with Cirque du Soleil for the Super Bowl Opening Ceremony and at Coachella.
Ms. Tsakos is a Singularity University alumni, and an advocator for the convergence of Arts and Technology. She has spoken at the United Nations, TED, Google, YPO, KIN Global, IBM Summit, TEDx Broadway, TEDx PuraVida Joven, TEDx San Diego amongst others. In 2016, Tsakos was appointed Ambassador to the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Youth 2030 Project.
Ms. Tsakos is passionate about the language of interactivity between the imaginary and the real, and creating extraordinary experiences on Earth and beyond.
