Future Projects
Future Projects
Being developed or considered ...
"STORM RULES"
A theatrical experiment in an alchemical vessel: Can there be a show be about something you can't show?
Our 2009 production of "The Tempest" is the first manifestation of this larger, ongoing project, a many-year obsession of Artistic Director Michael Caplan. Storm Rules stages the convergence of "The Tempest", the sinking of the Titanic, and the story of Noah's Ark from the King James Bible. "MAE WEST'S SEX, WITH INTERRUPTION"
by Mae West
Mae West's Sex "opened at Daly's 63rd Street Theatre just north of Broadway in 1926, gave West her first starring role in the theatre and marked the beginning of one of the most extraordinary American careers." [Lillian Schlissel, Introduction to Three Plays by Mae West].
As the original ad said: "If you cannot stand excitement, see your doctor before visiting Mae West in "Sex" ... The story of a bad girl who was good to the navy!"
"INHERIT THE WIND: A TRAGEDY"
An adaptation of the play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, with additional material from the actual "Scopes Monkey Trial", performed by a cast of believers and non-believers
"AN EXCELLENT CONCEITED TRAGEDY OF ROMEO AND JULIET"
by William Shakespeare
Using the less familiar, 1567 "Bad Quarto", and performed by an all-male cast, as it was originally done.
"THE COMPLAINT OF THE INDIANS IN THE COURT OF DEATH"
by Michael de Carvajal & Luis Hurtado de Toledo (1557)
A strange, disturbing play - "a rare sixteenth-century theatrical piece about the conquest of the New World ... the play centers on a group of American natives filing a complaint against the Spanish conquistadors, before a tribunal presided over by Death" [from the back cover of The Conquest on Trial, by Carlos A. Jauregui, Pennsylvania State University Press]"LA SAGUINE"
by Antonine Maillet
"AUTUMN OF THE PATRIARCH"
An adaption of the book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
