The Assembly Presents Home/Sick 7/6-30
By: Gabrielle Sierra
The Assembly presents the world premiere of home/sick to kick off the Make Your Own City Arts Festival at the Collapsible Hole in Williamsburg, 7/6-7/30.
Following the critical acclaim of their most recent productions: Three Sisters (The Cherry Pit), The Dark Heart of Meteorology, (Horse Trade Theatre) and Clementine and the Cyber Ducks (Incubator Arts), The Assembly will present the world premiere of home/sick, an ensemble-devised piece of political theater that explores the history of the 1960s radical group, The Weather Underground. home/sick:Disgusted by the Vietnam War and the government's repression of those seeking equality domestically, a handful of leaders from the 1960s student movement seized control of Students for a Democratic Society and reshaped it in the name of overthrowing the United States government. Believing violence to be the only means to a true and lasting peace, these passionate idealists accelerated a movement to its fervor, but left a country behind. The Assembly is presenting home/sick as part of their Make Your Own City Arts Festival, which will feature late night concerts, visual art installations, readings and works by other young artists and companies including: Waterwell (Goodbar-- directed by Arian Moayed, #9, The King Operetta), Shelby Company (The Land Whale Murders), and Matt Roi Berger (Spidermusical, Fat Camp). The Festival will also include lectures and talk-backs with theatrical and political academics. home/sick and the Make Your Own City Festival will run at the Collapsable Hole in Williamsburg from July 6th-July 30th.
written by the ensemble
Directed by Jess ChayesJuly 6th-9th
July 13th-16th
July 20th-23rd
July 27th-30th
8PM featuring:
Edward Bauer, Ben Beckley, Kate Benson, Anna Elliot,
Luke Harlan and Emily Louise Perkinsdesigned by:
Nick Benacerraf, Asa Wember, Miriam Crowe and Deanna Frieman.The Collapsible Hole
146 Metropolitan Ave. Williamsburg
(L to Bedford Ave or G to Metropolitan)Tickets: $18, available at: brownpapertickets.com
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