Clare Barron's I'LL NEVER LOVE AGAIN to Run 2/24-3/19 at Bushwick Starr

The Bushwick Starr is proud to present Obie Award-winning playwright Clare Barron's newest work, the world premiere of I'LL NEVER LOVE AGAIN (a chamber piece), part concert and part archaeological dig about first love, first heartbreak, and how those formative teenage experiences haunt the rest of our lives. I'LL NEVER LOVE AGAIN is created from Barron's actual teenage diary and performed by a chorus of downtown's finest. We track the emotional ups-and-downs of "Clare" as she goes through her very first relationship. It's a chance to spend some time in a real-life teenage brain and with real-life teenage artifacts (drawings from Clare's journals, the actual purple iridescent choir robes from her high school, her baby teeth...) but the goal is to jog the audience's memories and inspire their own personal reflection. Do you remember your first cup of coffee? Or how intense it was the first time you took your pants off with someone? Or all the things you promised yourself before you got distracted by the Adult World?

I'LL NEVER LOVE AGAIN (a chamber piece) is performed by a cast of very much non-teenagers including Barron, Joie Bauer, Kate Benson, Monica Hope, Mia Katigbak, Nana Mensah, Oona Montandon, Amanda Phelan, Jeremy Rafal, Maggie Robinson, Shawn Shafner, Richard Toth and Peter Mills Weiss. The creative/production team includes Michael Leibenluft (Director), Stephanie Johnstone (Composer/Music Supervisor), Karen Boyer (Costume Designer), Gareth Hobbs (Sound Designer), Carolyn Mraz (Scenic Designer), Mary Ellen Stebbins (Lighting Designer), Kailey Marshall (Music Director), Taylor Wilkerson (Stage Manager), Emily Moler (Assistant Director), Ann Marie Dorr (Production Manager), and John Del Gaudio (Producer). The production is in association with Big Data (or Dolores) and Gung Ho Projects. I'll Never Love Again was first developed through the Drama League DirectorFest in 2014.

*The show contains sexual content. Parental discretion is advised.

Location: The Bushwick Starr theater: 207 Starr Street, Brooklyn, NY [between Irving and Wyckoff]

Directions:

Via Subway take the L Train to Jefferson Street, exit at Starr Street, walk against traffic on Starr, and the theater is 3/4 of a block on the right.

For detailed driving directions visit: www.thebushwickstarr.org/DIRECTIONS

Tickets are $18 general admission at www.thebushwickstarr.org