<p><strong>Written by Sarah Ruhl / Directed by Nick O’Leary </strong></p>
<p><strong>PART OF THE PRODUCING ARTISTS LABORATORY SERIES </strong></p>
<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem;">Audience members may see more vigorous artistic risk-taking in these Lab productions. From their first year to graduation, the Lab is a space for our student-artists to practice their craft.</span></p>
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<p><strong>TICKET SALES FOR THIS PRODUCTION ARE NOW CLOSED.</strong><br><br>What is the experience of living in America today? It’s a question most of us are asking ourselves constantly these days, as we look out over an American landscape almost no one could have imagined. It’s also a foundational question in the work of celebrated devising theatre company the TEAM, of which director Libby King has been a member since 2006.
<p><strong>Aren’t we better than our worst crimes? Are we just going to go on trading blood endlessly back and forth? What is the sense of that? Aren’t we tired? </strong></p>
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<p>Unfortunately, we have had to cancel our planned undergraduate production of Darrah Cloud’s <strong><em>The Stick Wife</em></strong> because we did not have enough students audition to fill the cast. Although we are disappointed, we know that you join us in supporting our students in prioritizing their health and wellbeing during this difficult year. <br><br>We hope you will join us for an upcoming event: A new play reading of undergraduate Darby Sherwood's <strong><em>Zurich to Petersburg.
<div><strong>Once upon a time, there was a group of people who longed to be happy. </strong></div><p><strong>The people spent their days inside a giant room filled with shelves and boxes. </strong></p>
<p><strong>Desire doesn't follow rules.</strong></p><div>For most of Sorrel’s high school career, she was friendless and quietly weird. She didn’t even seem to fit in with the geeky kids. When she turned seventeen, and late puberty produced a supermodel physique, she became seen as a “hot dork”. <strong>Bunny</strong> spans twenty years of Sorrel’s life. Unencumbered by the burden of shame, she journeys through the complex social expectations surrounding female sexuality.
<div><strong>I am the incoming tide with spares no life - and certainly no man's! </strong></div><div><strong>So pull it together and let's go...</strong></div><div> </div><div>At “God’s” command, “Death” summons “Everybody” to go on the long and difficult journey to give a presentation to “God” on Everybody’s life and why they have lived it the way that they have. Everybody wants to bring along a friend, and Death says it’s fine <em>if</em> Everybody can find someone to volunteer.
<div><strong>But today, sitting in the street with those protesters - even when I got shoved around - I felt alive. I felt strong. Like I could tear my way out of this nightmare we see every night on the news. War. Pandemics. Food insecurity. The energy crisis. The collapse of healthcare. Strikes. And on top of that, a government that's either completely clueless or completely corrupt... and that's just the stuff we know is real. Who the hell knows anymore, in this era of spin and lies?
<div><strong>"Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty of thirty-five? Why is it that, once fallen, we do not try to rise, and, having lost one thing, we do not seek another? Why?"</strong></div><p> </p><div>In this new translation of Chekhov’s ”serious comedy of human contradictions”, a group of artists and dreamers meet in the countryside and wrestle with the costs of ambition, unspoken longings, and the harsh realities of artistic pursuits.