So, you think you know Tennessee?
The Bushwick Starr follows up its rock opera with a complete 180 - rare plays by Tennessee Williams.
WEEK 1
This is the Peaceable Kingdom
Lead Artist-William Burke
A place of love without fear; or a nursing home riot.
Thursday, 3/11 7:30pm
Friday, 3/12 9:30pm
Saturday, 3/13 7:30pm
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The Case of the Crushed Petunias "A Lyrical Fantasy”
Lead Artist- Sherrine Azab
This stylized and flamboyant piece serves as a timeless adulthood fable with subtle notes of Hitchcock and “The Twilight Zone” in flavor.
Why Do You Smoke So Much, Lily?
Lead Artist- Kate Foster
A haunting tale of unfulfilled dreams, parental pressure and personal inertia.
Escape
Lead Artist- Andrew Simon
Three members of a chain-gang can only sit and wonder as a fourth makes a run for his freedom.
Friday, 3/12 7:30pm
Saturday, 3/13 9:30pm
Sunday, 3/14 7:30pm
Monday, 3/15 7:30pm
WEEK 2
Municipal Abattoir
Lead Artist- Diana Konopka
On a city street somewhere, one man stops another to ask for directions. A short play about politics and punctuality.
The Day On Which A Man Dies
Lead Artist- Jake Hooker
Not a play about the death of a Great Painter: it is the death of painting, of art, and of greatness.
Wednesday, 3/17 7:30pm
Friday, 3/19 9:30pm
Saturday, 3/20 7:30pm
Sunday, 3/21 7:30pm
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The Purification
Lead Artist- Kathleen Kennedy Tobin
Williams' only verse drama, a tale of passion, murder and blood atonement in territorial New Mexico, will be performed by puppets on a small stage.
Thursday, 3/18 7:30pm
Friday, 3/19 7:30pm
Saturday, 3/20 9:30pm
Monday, 3/22 7:30pm
Now the Cats with Jewelled Claws
Lead Artist- Donya K.Washington
Ladies Who Lunch in a cafe that's a refugee from a Toulouse Lautrec design with a James Dean-esque (gay) biker duo - what else could it be but a Williams play?
Thursday, 3/25 7:30pm
Friday, 3/26 9:30pm
Saturday, 3/27 7:30pm
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The Pronoun 'I'
Lead Artist- Travis Chamberlain
The text of this compact erotic thriller becomes an outlet for one woman’s outrageous fantasy, testing the limits of sexual tolerance in a backhanded satire of heterosexual matrimony.
The Remarkable Rooming-House of Mme. Le Monde
Lead Artist- Shannon Sindelar
In this perverse and brutal work, comic horror plays out with some of Williams’ most outrageous characters.
Wednesday, 3/24 7:30pm
Thursday, 3/25 9:30pm
Friday, 3/26 7:30pm
Saturday, 3/27 9:30pm
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