Inebriation and Disorder on Tap for Chocolate Factory Fall Season

By PATRICIA COHEN

Drunk actors are not unknown in the theater world, but a lack of sobriety is not generally planned. The experimental Chocolate Factory excels in breaking with tradition, however, and so it is launching its fall season, which runs from Sept. 13 through Jan. 12, with “Â"Hot Box,”Â" a project that requires its creator, the theater'Â's founding artistic director, Brian Rogers, to get overly inebriated. Â"A considerably drunk Mr. Rogers is slated to project real-time images of himself and another performer via a live video feed during the piece,Â" a description says, Â"creating a violently noisy and chaotic sense of disorder.Â"

The Long Island City theater, which supports Â"work that defies easy categorization,Â" is also presenting “Â"Play By Ear,Â"” by the mime Rob List; “There There” by Kristen Kosmas, which is loosely about Chekhov and the actor Christopher Walken; and “Â"Ich, Kürbisgeist,Â"”" by Big Dance Th eater and Sibyl Kempson, which is described as Â"”an olde tyme agricultural revenge play for HalloweÂ'en.”Â" The theater will also present projects by the dance and video artist Jillian Peña and the performance artist Aki Sasamoto. Most tickets are $15 and can be bought online at www.chocolatefactorytheater.org or by calling 212-352-3101.