Theater at The Tank and Rebellious Subjects Announce Hamlet Cast 5/4-15

Theater at The Tank & Rebellious Subjects Announce Hamlet Cast

Wednesday, May 4, 2011; 7:30pm
Friday, May 6, 2011; 7:30pm
Saturday, May 7, 2011; 7:30pm
Sunday, May 8, 2011; 3:00pm
Thursday, May 12, 2011; 7:30pm
Friday, May 13, 2011; 7:30
Saturday, May 14, 2011; 7:30pm
Sunday, May 15, 2011; 3:00pm
$15

Location: The Tank at 354 W. 45th Street, New York, NY 10036
A, C, E, to 42nd Street; 1, 2, 3, S, 7 to Time Square
More info: http://theateratthetank.thetanknyc.org

About The Show

Created & Performed by The Rebellious Subjects Theatre
'Seems,' madam-nay it is, I know not 'seems.'

Rebellious Subjects Theatre brings its lively and eclectic classical work to The Tank in May 2011 with a reimagining of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Using both of The Tank's theaters and the areas in and around as their largest playing space yet, the company delves into a modern world of Elsinore where cameras, both hidden and exposed, surround the players, blurring the boundaries of performance and privacy, exploring the nuances of appearance, deception, exploitation, and action within the world of the play. Click to watch the Rebellious Subjects trailer for Hamlet.

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About Theater at The Tank

Theater at The Tank is a new, curated series of innovative performances. These eight productions feature a group of exceptionally talented theater artists-performer/creators, director/writers, entire ensembles, all of whom are creating new and exciting work. The performances range from classical theater to clown and puppetry. Curated by Jon Levin and Josh Luxenberg of Sinking Ship Productions.

T@TT is also offering a series of three workshops for theater artists, led by three of our presenting artists. For complete information please visit http://theateratthetank.thetanknyc.org
Casting Announcement: ‘Hamlet' at The Tank
Rebellious Subjects Theatre (in conjunction with The Tank) is pleased to announce casting for the company's site-specific, multi-media Hamlet, premiering on May 4 as a part of the inaugural Theater @ The Tank Series, curated by Josh Luxenberg and Jon Levin.

The production will continue the RST's tradition of working in the style of a repertory company, featuring company actors who have worked on numerous productions from Chekhov to Dylan Thomas, as well as bringing in new talent. Melisa Annis ( Twelfth Night, Under Milk Wood, Henry V) will direct, assisted by Meagan Michelson.

Patrick Woodall stars in the title role. Woodall recently completed filming on indie feature Another Kind; his credits with the company include Vershinin (Three Sisters), Feste (Twelfth Night), and Second Voice (Under Milk Wood). Tiffany Abercrombie (currently a Bat at The Flea; RST's Twelfth Night, Under Milk Wood, Henry IV) plays Horatio and Lauren Ferebee (Tartuffe at Theatre Row; RST's Twelfth Night, Under Milk Wood, Three Sisters) plays Ophelia opposite Woodall.

Andrew Langton appears as Claudius in his first role with the company. Langton's previous work includes Enemies and Trelawney of the ‘Wells' at Williamstown Theater Festival, and The Casebook of Rudolf H... at New York Theater Workshop. Laurie Schroeder, also a first time RST actor, plays opposite Langton as Gertrude; Schroeder recently played the title role in The Workshop Theater's Miss Lulu Bett.

The show will bring the Brooklyn-based company's particular brand of bare-bones, site-specific classical theater to Midtown Manhattan for the first time with a multimedia examination of Shakespeare's most-filmed play, utilizing both the Tank's theatres and it's "in between spaces," exploring the nuances of appearance, deception, exploitation, and action within the play's text.

Veteran company members appearing in the show include Ben Friesen as Guildenstern, Steve Viola as Polonius, Nick Reinhardt as Laertes and Ben Rezendes, who returns as the company's fight choreographer and in a cameo turn as Player Queen. Newcomers Aaron Matteson and Eli Green join the company as Rosencrantz and Osric.

About the Artists
Rebellious Subjects Theatre is the brainchild of NYU/Tisch grads Lauren Ferebee and Patrick Woodall, who founded the company in the spring of 2008. Their vision for the company was staging low-budget, well-rehearsed classical plays in unusual spaces with the aim of reaching and inspiring a new audience demographic with old works. The 2008-2009 season kicked off with Shakespeare's Twelfth Night at Bushwick's bar/art gallery/live music space Goodbye Blue Monday, continued with a Halloween concert of Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood, and finished 2008 with Chekhov's Three Sisters at Lefferts Historic House in Prospect Park. In the summer of 2009 the company put on the Henry V trilogy (Henry VI, Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V) in Prospect Park's Music Pagoda. After some time off, the RST is thrilled to be back in the business of making theatre, and hopes to be back at Lefferts House in 2011 as well as forging new relationships with The Tank and Galapagos Art Space, among others.

About The Tank
Founded in 2003, The Tank is a non-profit arts presenter whose mission is to provide a welcoming, creative, collaborative, and affordable environment for artists and activists engaged in the pursuit of new ideas. Through a wide range of low-cost, high-concept arts and public affairs programming, The Tank seeks to cultivate a new generation of audience for live performance, civic discourse, and the work of emerging artists. Follow The Tank on Twitter (@thetanknyc), Facebook, Tumblr and Wordpress.

 

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