The Tank to Present World Premiere of Corinne Donly's WOOD CALLS OUT TO WOOD

The Tank will present the World Premiere of Corinne Donly's Wood Calls Out to Wood, directed by Sarah Hughes at The Tank's new home at 312 West 36th Street. Performances will be October 27-November 12, Thursday through Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 7pm. Tickets ($18-$25) are available for advance purchase at www.thetanknyc.org. The performance will run approximately 50 minutes, with no intermission.

An adaptation of Hieronymus Bosch's 15th century triptych "The Garden of Earthly Delights," Wood Calls Out to Wood is a painting presented as a play, a landscape turned into a soundscape. Written in language that is both precise and deeply silly, the play experiments with the possibilities of combination--of single syllables combining to make words and single people combining to make couples. At first, the audience encounters it as they would a picture hanging on a distant wall, in large swaths of color and pattern. When taking a closer look, however, strange Boschian beings begin to emerge: Two horses in a neigh-scent relationship, a vacant treehouse in need of a tenant, and a human with a grape for a head.

Wood Calls Out to Wood was originally developed as part of Bring a Weasel and a Pint of Your Own Blood, hosted by The Public Theater.

CORINNE DONLY's (Playwright) plays include Wood Calls Out to Wood (2017 Weasel Festival, The Public Theater); Because of the Mud (B-Side Fest, the Wild Project); The Gray Notebook (Target Margin's Lab Series, the Bushwick Starr); Wild Whore Says: Couldn't Drag Me Away (Brooklyn Arts Exchange); and The Brutes (Toronto Theatre Center). Donly holds an MFA in playwriting from Brooklyn College, an MA in Integral Ecology, and a BFA in acting from NYU'S Experimental Theatre Wing.

Sarah Hughes (Director) is a director and producer of theater and new media. She's developed work with artists and companies such as McFeely Sam Goodman, Eliza Bent, Julia May Jonas / Nellie Tinder, Cara Scarmack, Alaina Ferris, Pablo Helguera, Superhero Clubhouse, and her work has been seen at Abrons Arts Center, The Brick, PEN World Voices, and BAM Next Wave, among others. With Graham Sack and Sensorium she created Virtual Reality pieces for New York Theatre Workshop, The New York Times, and Penguin Random House. Sarah worked with Elevator Repair Service from 2007-14 and was Co-Artistic Producer of Target Margin Theater from 2015-2017. She co-teaches a Contemporary Theater class at Dartmouth College, was a member of the 2016-17 Civilians R&D Lab, and is a New Georges Affiliated Artist and a Clubbed Thumb 2017-18 Directing Fellow. www.sarahcameronhughes.com

The Tank is a non-profit arts presenter serving emerging artists engaged in the pursuit of new ideas and forms of expression. We serve over 1,000 artists every year in over 400 performances, and work across all disciplines, including theater, comedy, dance, film, music, public affairs, and storytelling. Our goal is to foster an environment of inclusiveness and remove the burden of cost from the creation of new work for artists launching their careers and experimenting within their art form. The heart of our services is providing free performance space in our 98 seat proscenium and 56 seat blackbox that we operate in Manhattan, and we also offer a suite of other services such as free rehearsal space, promotional support, artist fees, and much more. We keep ticket prices affordable and view our work as democratic, opening up both the creation and attendance of the arts to all. Since its founding in 2003, artists who have come through The Tank include Alex Timbers, Amy Herzog, Lucy Alibar, Mike Daisey, Reggie Watts, Kyle Abraham, Andrew Bujalski, We Are Scientists, and tens of thousands of others. www.thetanknyc.org