Flea Theatre Presents FOLLOW ME DOWN, 10/23

Aporia Theater is proud to announce the limited engagement of FOLLOW ME DOWN, a new play written by Patrick Barrett and directed by Artistic Director Sarah Elizabeth Wansley. Preview is October 22; Opening is October 23.

Oxford, 1925. Fighting to carve out a place for themselves in a world overcrowded with heroes, rules, and expectations, a group of boys forge and sunder bonds that will press them to their very limits. Fatherhood, youth, and sexuality are the explosive ingredients in this smart new play.
 
Says Wansley, "Patrick's play is alternatingly warm and dark, funny and tragic. He has deftly captured the storm of adolescence and what it means to search for meaning in a newly modern world." The cast features Thomas Anawalt, Lydia Blaisdell, Kara Davidson, Jessica Frey, Graham Halstead, Joseph Rende, Jason Resnikoff, Justin Scalzo and Akilah Williams. The design team includes Emily Inglis sets, Brian Tovar lights, Whitney Adams costumes, Gregory Jacobs-Roseman sound and Eric Emch graphics.

Patrick Barrett is the author of three full-length plays, in addition to a number of shorter works and poems. Previously produced work includes Whose Wounds, Like Roses at Columbia University and a reading of Tzara/Dada with Aporia Theater. Acting credits include the roles of Garcin in No Exit, Hal in Proof, Brutus in Julius Caesar, Kaz in the NYC Fringe 2010 World Premiere of Art of Attack, and Jonah in The Disappearance of Jonah with Aporia. He is a graduate of Columbia University.
Sarah Elizabeth Wansley is the founding Artistic Director of Aporia Theater and the Assistant to the Producing Director at The Flea Theater. Past directing credits with Aporia include The Disappearance of Jonah in the DC Fringe Festival, Bare Naked Drama at the Cherry Pit and Jimmy's No. 43, No Exit at the Cherry Lane Studio, and Passion in the Park in Central Park. As a Directing and Producing Assistant at the McCarter Theatre, Sarah assisted Tina Landau, Emily Mann and Roger Rees, and directed a ten-minute play as part of McCarter's Youth Ink festival. Sarah graduated summa cum laude from Columbia University.
Aporia Theater, founded in 2007 by a group of Columbia University students, is a dynamic company devoted to cultivating a rising generation of theater artists through the development and production of compelling original work. Past work includes Bare Naked Drama at The Cherry Pit and Jimmy's No. 43,Passion in the Park in Central Park, The Disappearance of Jonah in the 2008 NY International and Capital DC Fringe Festivals, Existential Acts at The Cherry Lane Studio, and Moonlight, The Real Inspector Hound and The Real Thing at Columbia University. www.aporiatheater.com;www.facebook.com/aporiatheater

The Flea Theater, under Artistic Director Jim Simpson and Producing Director Carol Ostrow, is one of New York's leading off-off-Broadway companies. Winner of a Special Drama Desk Award for outstanding achievement, Obie Awards and an Otto for political theater, The Flea has presented nearly 100 plays and numerous dance and live music performances since its inception in 1996. Past productions include the premieres of Anne Nelson's The Guys; six plays by A.R. Gurney Post Mortem, O Jerusalem, Screenplay, Mrs. Farnsworth, A Light Lunch andOffice Hours; Mac Wellman's Cellophane and Two September; Roger Rosenblatt's Ashley Montana Goes Ashore... and The Oldsmobiles; Elizabeth Swados' JABU and Kaspar Hauser; Karen Finley's Return of the Chocolate Smeared Woman; Adam Rapp's Bingo with the Indians; Will Eno's Oh, The Humanity and other exclamations; Dawn by Thomas Bradshaw; The Great Recession; Jonathan Reynolds' Girls in Trouble and Bathsheba Doran's Parents' Evening.
 
FOLLOW ME DOWN will run October 22- November 1, Fridays and Saturdays at 9pm, Sundays and Mondays at 7pm. The Flea is located at 41 White Street between Church and Broadway, three blocks south of Canal, close to the A/C/E, N/R/Q, 6, J/M/Z and 1 subway lines. Tickets are $17 and are available by calling 212-352-3101 or online at www.theflea.org.

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