JACK Presents SEHNSUCHT, Created by Theater Company TV
In this collaboratively-created play by blossoming theater company TV, the ensemble unpacks the longing one can feel for another time and place, whether real or imagined: childhood, years without war, early human history, a time when everyone enjoyed the outdoors and raised chickens and heard gossip from the neighbors, when strawberries were tiny and sour. With choral odes by Deepali Gupta, this whimsical show hops millennia in its exploration of what once was or never was at all.
Created by TVWritten by Michael Norton
Music and Lyrics by Deepali Gupta
Directed by Sarah Blush Set by Brittany Vasta
Costumes by Christopher Metzger
Lights by Ken Wills
Sound by John Gasper
Props by Rhys Roffey
Produced by Caroline Gart & Ryan Gedrich
Stage Manager Michelle Navis
Technical Director Drew Francis Production support provided by The Habitat. DATES/TIMES:
August 23 - 25 at 7:30 pm
August 27 - September 1 at 7:30 pm LOCATION: JACK | 505 ½ Waverly Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238 | C or G train to Clinton-Washington TICKETS: $18 (www.jackny.org or 866-811-4111, or cash only at the door) TV is a theatre company consisting of director Sarah Blush and performers Brian Bock and Georgia Lee King. They build plays. Their work is often big and sweeping, mixing time and space and history in ways that are absurd and funny, athletic even. Sarah Blush directs theatre and virtual reality. She is a co-artistic director of the theatre company TV, whose work includes Sehnsucht (JACK), Power Couple (Ars Nova ANT Fest), and My Favorite Character Was the Talking Vase (HERE). Other directing: Clubbed Thumb, Playwrights Realm, NYU Graduate Acting, The Atlantic Acting School. Dixon Place, NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, The Flea, TinyRhino, Williamstown Theatre Festival. Associate/Assistant directing: Daniel Aukin, Mark Wing-Davey, Rachel Chavkin, Young Jean Lee, Richard Nelson, among others. Sarah was the recipient of New York Society Library's Emerging Female Artist Grant, a member of The Habitat's Directors Playground, and she's a New Georges Affiliated Artist. Upcoming: CAVE, a multi-viewer virtual reality experience premieres at SIGGRAPH in August. Sarah is a 2018-19 Clubbed Thumb Directing Fellow.
JACK's presenting season is made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts - Art Works program, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, New Music USA's NYC New Music Impact Fund (made possible with funding from The Scherman Foundation's Katharine S. and Axel G. Rosin Fund), Brooklyn Arts Council, The DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund, the Harkness Foundation for Dance, the Mental Insight Foundation, The Santvoord Foundation, The Laura B. Vogler Foundation, The Lida Foundation and M & T Charitable Foundation.
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