Thursday: machine
Adapted and Directed by Roger Ellis
Devised with Sharon Miles, Alex O’Shea, and Kevin Aoussou
Lighting Design by Surya Saathi
An unfaithful adaptation of The Man Who Was Thursday and The Machine Stops, this new work stages a collision between unlikely sources to ask: what happens when the surveilled return the gaze?
The audience is drawn into a conspiracy where not everyone is who they claim to be. As loyalties shift and identities blur, the only certainty is that the rules of the game are changing.
What is your next move?
Tremor Cordis
Adapted by Liz Hayes and Kathryn Walsh
Music by Robert Frost
Directed by Kathryn Walsh
Devised with Alexander Gemignani and Shawn Pfautsch
Lighting Design by Isabella Castro
Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale gets ransacked and re-focused on the domestic and familial. With music, ritual, three performers, and Shakespeare’s text, we use the big questions of an old play to look at our current world: What patterns of authority and control do we inherit and reproduce? What takes us from partners to adversaries? Can we move from grief to forgiveness?
Cost: Free
Wirtz Center
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