Tyrell Alex Ratner
About This Show
A musical parody-prequel to Game of Thrones, Tyrell tells the untold story of Olenna, Loras and Margaery Tyrell before the series begins. Of all the Great Houses of Westeros, House Tyrell is the only one led by a woman, Olenna Tyrell, who is busy grooming her grandchildren Loras and Margaery for greatness. Commenting on Margaery’s objectification, Loras’s double life as the closeted ‘Knight of Flowers’ and Olenna’s role as resident battle-ax grandma, Tyrell imagines what these secondary characters were thinking all along. Welcome to Highgarden, oasis of female leadership and sexual tolerance within a not-too-distant medieval patriarchy.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Alex Ratner (Writer) is a composer-lyricist and librettist whose musicals include an adaptation of the novel White Oleander (sublicense from Warner Brothers Theatre Ventures) and Stone and Sparrow (2016 New Voices Project Winner). Member of the BMI Advanced Workshop, and recipient of BMI’s 2016 Jerry Harrington Award and 2017 Jean Banks Award for his ten-minute musical, Salad Days. Alex is the featured composer in the Broadway’s Future Songbook series at Lincoln Center this February. B.A.: Yale ’15, and alum of the Yale Whiffenpoofs. www.alexratnermusic.com
Jenny Leon (Director) is a Bay Area-born, Brooklyn-based director specializing in new works and nontraditional spaces. She is a frequent collaborator at Lincoln Center, Symphony Space and 54 Below, and is a resident creative producer at Caveat. With What the Float, Jenny builds interactive floating silent discos, and DJs them, too. Upcoming projects include Hypatia and the Heathens, an experiential toga party musical, ‘I Was Wrong,’ an original dance film, and a national tour of the All-Female production of the musical 1776.
Monday, March 18, 2019 at 7:30pm
General Admission
$15 in advance
$18 at the door
Stu./Sen./idNYC
$12in advance
$15 at the door
65 minutes
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