Troy

Troy Foundry Theatre, which in the year since its creation has established itself as a company dedicated to producing edgy work in unusual spaces around the Collar City, for its second season will take over the historic Gasholder House in September to present a series of short plays by Samuel Beckett.

The round brick circa-1873 building, at Fifth Avenue and Jefferson Street, has a voluminous interior that will host what is being dubbed as a "postmodern Troy Carnivale" that will include six Beckett shorts, among them the famous one-actor "Krapp's Last Tape" starring veteran area theater presence John Romeo. The production will be performed eight times from Sept. 20 to 30 as the opening show of Foundry Theatre's second season.

The company's other two productions, at locations to be decided, will be "The Prohibition Project," and original work commissioned from and performed with the Philadelphia-based theater company Die-Cast, scheduled for March; and, in June of next year, the world premiere of "100 Years" by playwright Richard Dresser. "The Prohibition Project" and one of the Beckett shorts will be directed by Die-Cast co-founder Brenna Geffers, who in May directed her own adaptation of the controversial, 120-year-old play "La Ronde" for Foundry Theatre in a historic brownstone in downtown Troy.

Other components of the company's second season will be a continuation of its Dark Day Mondays play-reading series at varied Troy venues and its Pop-Up Summer Salon Series of theater, music, film and other disciplines in backyards, roofs and other nonstandard spaces. Dates and locations for these series, both free, have yet to be finalized.

Tickets for "Catastrophe Carnivale: An Evening of Beckett Shorts" are on sale now at catastrophecarnivale.bpt.me. Tickets for the remaining season productions will go on sale in December. The Dark Day Mondays Reading Series and Pop-Up Summer Salon Series will remain free of charge, and their schedules will be released monthly on troyfoundrytheatre.com

sbarnes@timesunion.com • 518-454-5489 • blog.timesunion.com/tablehopping • @Tablehopping • facebook.com/SteveBarnesFoodCritic.