MOMENTS AFTER AIAS Will Be Presented by JACK With Three Brooklyn Theatre Companies
Andrew Watkins' play is co-presented by HAMLET ISN'T DEAD, SANGUINE THEATRE COMPANY, and WHAT WILL THE NEIGHBORS SAY?.
Hamlet Isn't Dead, Sanguine Theatre Company and What Will the Neighbors Say? will partner with JACK (Amen Igbinosun, Executive Director) to present “MOMENTS AFTER AIAS,” adapted and directed by Andrew Watkins. The piece, an adaptation of Sophocles' tragedy combined with contemporary verbatim sources, will be presented at JACK (20 Putnam Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238) from July 17th-26th.
As a decade of war draws to a close, Aias faces the devastating loss of his closest friend and the betrayal of his commanders. Consumed by rage and despair, he commits an act of unspeakable violence. “Moments after Aias” combines classical and contemporary voices to show how a community narrates and remembers tragedy in moments of ideological fracture.
Helmed by Watkins, the cast includes Gabriela Saker*, Jacob Fishel*, Aaron Costa Ganis*, Zach Fike Hodges*, Michele Ang*, Sam Morales*, Malachi Beasley*, Jeorge B Watson*, Benjamin Hyman, and more to be announced. The design and creative team includes Josh Oberlander (Sets), Sam Kaseta (Sound), Amanda Roberge (Costumes), Sarah Woods (Lighting), Mike Magliocca (Fight/Intimacy Director), Isabel Criado (Stage Management) and Shari Perkins (Dramaturg and Assistant Director).
*Appearing courtesy of AEA
The Artistic Directors of the producing companies David Andrew Laws (Hamlet Isn't Dead), Sarah Boess and Michael Valladares (Sanguine Theatre Company) and Sam Hood Adrain and James Clements (What Will the Neighbors Say?) said of the play “Andrew is a brilliant artist we have admired and followed over the years. The chance to partner with Amen and the excellent team at JACK to bring this prescient and powerful adaptation to audiences is an exciting creative privilege.”
About the Artists
Andrew Watkins (Director/Writer) is a theater director whose work includes classical adaptation, new play development, and interdisciplinary performance. He is very happy to be making his JACK debut with Moments after Aias, which was previously developed at the Brooklyn Center for Theater Research. His directing credits include The Oresteia (Theater for a New Audience's studio programming), Uncle Vanya (3xChekhov Festival), The Yellow Wallpaper (IRT Theater, Dixon Place), and Miss Julie (Access Theater). He recently wrote text for Destiny|Fate|Blood, a new dance piece by Sawako Ogo (ACUD, Berlin). As an assistant and associate director, he worked on Broadway with Network (dir. Ivo van Hove) and Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (dir. Arin Arbus). Other credits include: four seasons with Theater for a New Audience (The Father and Doll's House, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Winter's Tale), Theaterhaus Jena, Deutsches Theater Berlin, the Guthrie, Toneelgroep Amsterdam and Ruhrtriennale Festival. He holds an MA in Psychology from the New School for Social Research and a BA in Theatre Directing from Fordham University at Lincoln.
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