Philadelphia's OBIE award-winning New Paradise Laboratories and New York's Riot Group ( led by playwright and Burlington-born Adriano Shaplin) will present 6 workshop performances of their new production, Freedom Club at Off Center for the Dramatic Arts, Burlington, VT. August 12 through the 20th.
THE PLAY:
A fierce, undead tension animates the American frontier: the struggle between the freedom of the individual and the question of who or what belongs to the club. Freedom Club is a savage comedy about the delirium and danger in American extremism, a hallucination on national themes. It time-travels from a feverish dream-play starring Shakespearean assassin John Wilkes Booth and Abraham Lincoln to Virginia, 2015, where a determined group of self-styled radicals are rapidly coming unglued.
"A Tea Party from beyond the Grave"
Thursday August 12 8pm
Friday August 13 8pm
Saturday August 14 8pm
Wednesday August 18 8pm
Thursday August 19 8pm
Friday August 20 8pm
HOW MUCH: $10 suggested donation. Box Office opens at 7pm.
For reservations call 802-540-0773
Playing The Philadelphia Live Arts Festival,
ReplyDeleteArts Bank of the University of the Arts,
601 Broad Street
September 3-11.
FREEDOM CLUB is made possible with the support of the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative, and the National Endowment for the Arts.