They Lived in the Attic Written and Directed by Ran Xia

About This Show

“They lived in the attics of their imagination.”

He was the founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (P.R.B), the ‘punks’ of their time, and she was the world’s first supermodel. He painted her in the most glamorous colors, she wanted only to be loved as she was.

In mid 19th century, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, and William Holman Hunt founded the P.R.B in an attempt to change the world of art. They were addicts of love and they wanted to change the world.

This play examines the relationship between those artists, especially of Rossetti and Siddal: the artist and the muse who fell in love at first sight, yet caused each other more pain than they could’ve possibly imagined.

About the Artist

RAN XIA Interdisciplinary artist and storyteller based in NYC. Ran’s relationship with art starts with pen and paper and she uses whatever material at hand to tell the stories she hopes to share with all. She is drawn to the romantics of both arts and science, and stories of non-linear nature. Visual: Art Takes Times Square, Stories of the Creative (SEE.ME), Dacia Gallery (Times Square Arts Centre), Spiegel Me (Installation at Fountains Foundation, Columbia College, Chicago). Theatre: North (Dixon Place), The Vagina Monologues, The Elephant Man (FDU), The Last Dance (York Theatre Company).

Saturday, Feb. 28 at 10pm

General Admission 
$12 in advance
$15 at the door

Students/Seniors
$10

Estimated Runtime
80 minutes

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Credits

Playwright / Director
Ran Xia

Cast:
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Adam Fontana & Nicholas Lazzaro

Elizabeth Siddal
Erika Vetter & Chelsea LeSage

William Michael Rossetti, John Everett Millais, & Others
Austin Jennings Boykin

Christina Rossetti
Amy Handra

William Holman Hunt & Others
Ian Prince

 

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