By Anne Carson
Directed by Rebecca Martínez
Performances
October 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12
What happens when a contemporary woman translates and adapts an ancient woman’s defiance of rigid state power? Anne Carson’s audacious rendering of Sophokles’ classic gives fresh meaning to the term iconoclastic.
By Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Ashley Brooke Monroe
Performances
November 7, 8, 9, 15, 16, 17
What happens when a young man in a seven-day trance is transformed into a woman? What happens when we explore the infinite distinctions of gender? How does a person who has traveled across centuries, and all the lands of gender, find home?
By Diana Son
Directed by Sonoko Kawahara
Performances
February 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, March 1
By Anne Washburn
Directed by Elizabeth Margid
Performances
April 10, 11, 12, 24, 25, 26 at 7:30 pm and 27 at 2:00 & 7:30 pm
What happens when a society must rebuild itself after an environmental disaster and social collapse? What happens over 75 years when surviving “tribes” inject meaning into their lives by recovering from memory the TV series that bound them together before the Fall? This musical tragi-comedy asks: When communities are under assault from the forces of darkness will their performances unite them?