A Murder of Crows
by Mac Wellman
June 28, 29, 30
and July 5, 6, 7
at 8 pm (running time is one hour)
El Jardin Del Paraiso
4th Street between Avenues C and D.
Take
the F or V train to 2nd Ave, walk North on 2nd to E 4th street.
Turn
right onto 4th and continue to park.
directed by: Ryan Iverson
stage manager: William Koski-Karell
costumes by: Ramona Rose
dramaturgy: Colette Robert
featuring
Peter Fenzel - Matthew Kirsch - Emily Lodish - Brooke
Lyons - Scott Peterman - Kate Robbins - Nate Schenkkan - Richard Silverstein - Jessie Wiener
An absurdist mood piece about the American family, A Murder of
Crows centers on a young girl who prophesizes an apocalyptic
change in the world's weather. The play presents a ridiculous
America and an American Dream that has gotten so big that we,
the people, cannot manage to live up to it. Wellman is a herald of a
new classical period of poetic drama, upholding Gorilla Rep's
mission statement of "the highest quality productions of classical
dramatic material, with the flavor of contemporary immediacy."
Context
In 1990 Mac Wellman wrote A Murder of Crows, his most
approachable piece, predicting the Gulf War syndrome and
presenting an American family drama that raises nothing but
questions about our lives, our values and the direction in which
our nation is headed. It is at once a celebration, condemnation
and lamentation of the American way of life.
The Production
This production of A Murder of Crows was first
seen in October 2001 at Yale University as a thesis project in
directing. The director, the bulk of the crew and all performers are
current Yale students or recent graduates. On seeing the show,
professor and Gorilla Rep founding artistic director Christopher
Carter Sanderson offered to produce a re-mounting of the project
in NYC.
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