Kafka comes home to roost in a gripping, uptight celebration that seemingly does not in fact occur on someone's birthday. As it turns out: psychological terrorism can be hilarious.
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Adapted from the framework of Tennessee Williams' Glass Menagerie, this imploded text incorporates elements of J.D. Salinger's Glass family with narrative though projected home movies. The function of families in maintaining dysfunction is the core of this re-imagined modern classic in the style of LGP's Three Sisters (On Ice) and A Streetcar Named Desire
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Can old school hero Herald M.F. Jones save a city assaulted from all sides by new school havoc and despair?
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Inspired by Yukio Mishima’s modern adaptations of classic Noh dramas, David Turkel’s
STROKE/ BOOK tell two stories about the intertwined worlds of the living and the dead.
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Two weeks of bold plays and discussions on the state
of theater and race in America, with Night Beast
by Ed Bullins, and Harriet Jacobs by Lydia R. Diamond.
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The wilderness of the enigmatic Vorticist Movement will be trail-blazed and illuminated via down home song stylings and scenes from Shakespeare's Timon of Athens..
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An original adaptation of one of Japan’s best known and most terrifying ghost stories, Yotsuya Kaidan. Revenge, lust, obsession and the fast track to Hell.
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Our Italian Season concluded with an updated version of a masterpiece of slapstick and protest set in a police headquarters where a man has fallen to his death. Did he jump or was he pushed? A chameleonic Maniac turns the tables on a corrupt Establishment in an effort to get to the bottom of it. Equal parts A Night At the Opera and The Rights of Man.
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A woman wakes at 4:48 every morning to experience an hour and twelve minutes of clarity. As her psyche spins out of control she savors each period of calm and reason, wrestling the angel of insanity with the help of her doctor and her lover.
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Just in time for the holidays, a show for the whole family. This new adaptation of the Gothic classic tells of a rebellious orphan who falls in love with a mysterious older man. But is there something he's not telling her...?
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A kinky meditation on our consuming fear of physical and spiritual decay, the story follows a video artist who attempts to reclaim his former glory by making the ultimate transgressive artwork: a snuff film. Oh, and he's platonically dating Italian sex symbol, Claudia Cardinale, with whom he experiences overwhelming performance anxiety. Like we said: kinky.
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What if three extremists blew up the world and escaped underground to become the only un-martyred? This DR. STRANGELOVE-esque black comedy digs deep into the mindset of a few individuals who want the world to play by their rules.
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THE WAVES is an adaptation of Virginia Woolf's most textured and dream-like stream-of-consciousness novel. The story follows six friends who advance from childhood through old age together, unable to live in harmony but reunited when old ties bring them back into each other's lives like waves on a shore. Woolf's many-layered poetic searching asks deep questions about the nature of friendship, loss, beauty and insanity.
Created expressly for The Bloomsbury Group's yearlong celebration and a world premiere at Duke University.
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Who are we without someone else?
You find yourself stuck in the Underworld.
You have to leave but the one
you love is eternally trapped there.
Do you:
a.) Live forever in Hell
b) Abandon your one true love
Rationalization is a bitch
and love is a dog from hell.
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September 3-13, 2008
In Fugard's modern classic, two political prisoners, rehearsing a performance of Antigone in their cramped
cell, must balance personal loyalties against their
struggle to survive.
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July 9-19, 2008
A lost classic from the 60's Black stage movement by one of its masters. A ragtag collection of small time criminals schemes up the big score that will get them out of haunted Los Angeles and to the city of their dreams: Buffalo.
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January 17 - February 2
Winner of the National Book Award, William T. Vollmann's epic novel conjures the madness of World War II from the Russian and German perspectives.
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Our 2007 fundraiser bash:
Film noir, Bronte-Saurus, illicit gambling, mayhem.
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November 1-17, 2007
This surreal dreamplay charts the tortured life of the original suicidal artist, Heinrich von Kleist.
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June 21-July 7, 2007
The greatest play of the 20th century gets a whole new kink in this erotically-charged staging.
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May 3-19, 2007
Sharpen your nails and batten down your compact for Rainer Werner Fassbinder's classic melodrama of thwarted ambition, treacherous sexuality and desperate power struggles.
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Jan. 18 - Feb. 3, 2007
Equal parts Harold Lloyd/Charlie Chaplin slapstick
and Dr. Zhivago melodrama.
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Saturday, November 4th, 2006
Our 2006 fund-raiser features sinisterscenes from fin-de-siecle French horror, macabre music, and sinful food.
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Oct. 12 - 29, 2006
Francis Hardy, Faith Healer, has spent his life touring villages in Scotland and Wales with his manager and his long-suffering lover. The story of their fateful return to Ireland is a haunting meditation on faith, love, and hope.
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Sept. 21 - Oct. 7, 2006
An all-Black production of Chekhov's final play about a crumbling aristocratic family forced to face reality when it can no longer hold on to its delusions.
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April 27 - May 13, 2006
A passionate look at desire and disenchantment in an Edward Gorey landscape with a Hawaiian soundtrack.
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Oct. 15, 2005
Our first fund-raising event.
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Sept. 29 - Oct. 8, 2005
Our first production "renders Beckett's willful abstruseness with almost paradoxical clarity"...
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