On Saturday March 1st at 7:30pm watch the world’s greatest stories unroll before your eyes! Flushing Town Hall is thrilled to produce this festival of scrolled panoramas, known as “crankies,” for CRANKIES TAKE NEW YORK!
Flushing Town Hall Theater: 137-35 Northern Blvd, Flushing, NY 11354
General Admission: $20 Adults / $15 Members, Seniors, & Students w/ID
Children are welcome and this performance is geared towards adults.
On Saturday the festival will also host a workshop before the performances at 1pm. Come early for a family friendly pre-show workshop where you get to make your own mini crankie. Perfect for the young crank-sters in your household. And at 2:00 PM Kids and Family Performance followed by Q & A
General Admission (Workshop): FREE for Members w/Ticket Purchase / $5 for All Others.
You must buy a performance ticket to ANY show to attend the workshop.
General Admission (Performance): $15 Adults / $12 Members / $8 Children
7:30 PM Public Performance
General Admission: $20 Adults / $15 Members, Seniors, & Students w/ID
Children are welcome and this performance is geared towards adults.
Get Your Tickets for the 3/1 Workshop/Performance Here
Boxcutter Collective will perform 2 brand new crankie shows!!
“Witches, Women and Witchcraft: The (Mostly) True Cranky of a Cranky Old Hag.” A brief history of the medieval witch hunts, as told by…witches! With their reproductive healthcare skills, and a team of singing bullfrogs, is it possible that witches are just what we need to defeat the imperialist capitalist patriarchy?
AND
“Haunted Lighthouse” A collaboration with Charming Disaster – a goth-folk musical duo based in Brooklyn, formed in 2012 by Ellia Bisker and Jeff Morris. Inspired by the macabre humor of Edward Gorey and Tim Burton, the murder ballads of the Americana tradition, and the dramatic flair of the cabaret, they write songs that tell stories about death, crime, myth, magic, folklore, science, and the occult. Boxcutter Collective is very excited to collaborate with these weirdos!
A crankie is basic in concept: it is a scroll that provides the visual narration to a story or song. Versions of the crankie have been around for hundreds of years, if not longer; their most recent iteration is directly linked to moving panoramas popular in the 19th Century. In recent years, artists have begun to embrace the intimacy of the format, creating multi-layered, immersive experiences for audiences that create a sort of fireside wonder. It’s mesmerizing and the perfect respite from our digital world.
