Yale Rep Presents SLEEP As Part Of NO BOUNDARIES Series

Yale Repertory Theatre (James Bundy, Artistic Director; Victoria Nolan, Managing Director) will present Haruki Murakami's SLEEP, directed and devised by Rachel Dickstein and Ripe Time, adapted for the stage by Naomi Iizuka, as part of its annual NO BOUNDARIES performance series, March 1, 2, and 3 at 8PM at the Iseman Theater (1156 Chapel Street).

SLEEP features scenic and object design by Susan Zeeman Rogers, costumes by Ilona Somogyi, lighting by Jiyoun Chan, projections by Hannah Wasileski, and sound by Matt Stine.

The ensemble includes Akiko Aizawa, Brad Culver, Takemi Kitamura, Paula McGonagle, Jiehae Park, and Saori Tsukada. Live music will accompany the performance, composed and performed by New Born Trio: Katie Down, Miguel Frasconi, and Jeffrey Lependorf.

Produced by Ripe Time in association with Octopus Theatricals, SLEEP had its world premiere at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia. Its New York premiere was at BAM's 2017 Next Wave Festival, where it was hailed by The New York Times as "gorgeous, surreal, and haunting."

A second NO BOUNDARIES presentation will be announced.

A housewife suffers a terrifying dream and stops sleeping. In her newly nightmarish and beautiful sleep-deprived world, she is suddenly able to take risks and indulge in what is forbidden, devouring Tolstoy and chocolate, and embracing the unpredictable and dangerous. Based on the hypnotic short story by internationally acclaimed author Haruki Murakami, Sleep is a surreal journey about stepping beyond the bounds of society.

Sleep runs approximately 80 minutes and is performed without intermission.

Tickets for SLEEP are $50-70 and are available online at yalerep.org, by phone (203) 432-1234, and in person at the Yale Rep Box Office (1120 Chapel Street). Student tickets are $25.

Please note: Phone and in-person orders will not be available during Yale's Winter Recess, December 22-January 1.

Ripe Time is an OBIE-winning theatre company founded in 2000 and led by director and deviser Rachel Dickstein which develops and presents ensemble-based theatre with rich language, visual power, and physical rigor. Ripe Time's mission is to tell stories from the inside out, using the language of memory and imagination to trace how women negotiate identity in the face of cultural constrictions. Inspired by searing novels and stories, they create original multidisciplinary events for the 21st century celebrating women's dreams and awakenings.

Since their founding, Ripe Time has created seven large-scale ensemble works that have received three OBIE Awards, nominations from the Drama Desk and the Drama League, and the Joe A. Calloway Award for Outstanding Direction. Their work has been commissioned by BAM, Center Theatre Group, and Annenberg Center for the Arts, and has been presented at BAM-Fisher, the Baruch Performing Arts Center, JCC Manhattan, 3LD Art & Technology Center, Ohio Theatre, PS 122, the Clark Studio at Lincoln Center, La MaMa ETC, the Ko Festival, and Watermill Theatre. Artistic Director Rachel Dickstein received the 2015 LPTW Lucille Lortel Award in honor of her work with Ripe Time. Ripe Time's work was featured as part of the USITT exhibit in the 2015 Prague Quadrennial, a forum celebrating excellence in theatrical design from across the globe.

Yale Repertory Theatre, the internationally celebrated professional theatre in residence at Yale School of Drama, has championed new work since 1966, producing well over 100 premieres-including two Pulitzer Prize winners and four other nominated finalists-by emerging and established playwrights. Seventeen Yale Rep productions have advanced to Broadway, garnering more than 40 Tony Award nominations and ten Tony Awards. Yale Rep is also the recipient of the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre.

Established in 2008, Yale's Binger Center for New Theatre has distinguished itself as one of the nation's most robust and innovative new play programs. To date, the Binger Center has supported the work of more than 50 commissioned artists and underwritten the world premieres and subsequent productions of 27 new American plays and musicals at Yale Rep and theatres across the country-including this season's Native Son by Nambi E. Kelley, Field Guide created by Rude Mechs, and Kiss by Guillermo Calderón.

Yale Rep's NO BOUNDARIES series explores the frontiers of theatrical invention through cutting-edge and thought-provoking performance from around the world. NO BOUNDARIES has introduced Yale Rep audiences to an astonishing array of performances-including theatre, dance, music, and multimedia-from the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Poland, Peru, Colombia, Spain, Germany, Japan, Israel, Georgia, East Africa, West Africa, and right here in the U.S.