140 Characters: Tweets from the Streets of Ferguson -PLUS- Hi, Princess: 12 Variations on a Catcall Frack Theatre -PLUS- Mya Kagan

About This Show

140 Characters: Tweets from the Streets of Ferguson

Frack Theatre brings us a new documentary play which delves into one of the defining moments in this nation’s recent history: the Ferguson riots. The death of unarmed African American teen Michael Brown galvanized the public conversation around police violence towards black men, and to a greater extent, the oppression still encountered by people of color on a daily basis. The shooting and ensuing public outcry captured the attention of America and the world through social media. Using tweets from real life, #HandsUp moves this hashtag from behind the screen and onto the stage.

Hi, Princess: 12 Variations on a Catcall
by Mya Kagan

The interaction between a young woman and her catcaller endures endless variations – witty, satirical, absurd, and yet all too real – in a lively exploration and re imagining of what ensues with even just the slightest change in circumstances. As the ogled return the stare and the lechers are caught off-guard, the truth is finally spoken, which (spoiler alert!) is hilarious.

About the Artists

Frack Theatre is a New York theatre company founded on the principle of utilizing theatre as a means of community empowerment. Using techniques of verbatim and documentary theatre, Frack aims to use storytelling as a means of investigation. Our theatre is one that digs deep, that puts pressure on the dominant discourse and exposes its cracks and fault lines. Underneath the thick crust of a homogenized society lie the deep, profound and moving stories that so often remain untold.

MYA KAGAN is a writer whose work is known for being smart, lively, deliciously absurd, and wildly entertaining. Her plays have been seen and heard at Ars Nova, the American Globe, Manhattan Theater Source, New Dramatists, NYU, Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab, and more. As a freelancer, she’s written everything from webisodes to online dating profiles. NYU-Tisch, BFA in Dramatic Writing. www.myakagan.com.

ELANA MCKELAHAN is a freelance theatre director and founding artistic director of Highly Impractical Theatre (HIT). Recent New York directing credits include Three Sisters (HIT), The Spring Cycle (HIT), Culture Project’s Director’s Weekend, and workshopping & developing Typecast by Lauren Hennessy (Women Center Stage Festival).

Thursday, May 28 at 10pm

General Admission
$12 in advance
$15 at the door

Students / Seniors
$12

Estimated Runtime
60 minutes

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Credits

140 Characters:
Conceived by

Daniel J. Watts
Written by
Daniel J. Watts, Oscar Lopez and Lindsay Morris
Directed by
Oscar Lopez
Produced by
Sam Clark
Performers
Briana Gibson
Christopher Chukwueke
Lauren Smith
Jabbar White
Photo Credit
Justin McCallum

Hi Princess:
Written by

Mya Kagan
Directed by
Elana McKelahan
Photo Credit
Rita Wozniak

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