What's On - The Actors' Gang
The Darkness
Written by Nick Gillie
Directed by Dwain Perry
Dates:
May 26, 27, 28
June 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17
Time:
8:00 PM
May 28 at 2:00 PM
Description:
A special co-production with Black University and Okan Entertainment
Written by Nick Gillie
Directed by Dwain Perry
The Darkness: Goddess Revealed is told through the perspective of three vastly different characters, all played by writer Nick Gillie: Glory Banks was a surgeon, Patrick Bartholomey was an outlaw, and Darrick Taylor was a Black Slave in the Mississippi cotton fields. As these characters enter the afterlife, their understanding of their own lives is utterly transformed in the presence of The Darkness, the infinite beauty of life and creation. In this space they see themselves surrounded by The We, ethereal beings who appear to the men as Black women and girls. The men believe The We have gathered to hear their life stories. They have not. The We await three of their own, three sacred beings played by Liza Cruzat, Raquel Rosser, and Erin Washington. When the men experience their final moments, their relationship to these sacred beings is revealed as we witness their union with the collective Spirit.
Dates:
May 31 | June 28 | July 26 | August 30
8:00 PM
Since 1984, The Actors’ Gang has been training as a company in The Style – an ever-evolving form for improvisation based in the tradition of the Commedia dell’Arte. This summer, we open the doors to our theater and invite you to witness the ensemble at play.
Pay What You Can tickets at the door
FREE STAGED READING
Date:
June 15
8:00 PM
A mysterious entity visits an uninspired writer after he takes a job as a reader at a Cigar Factory in Ybor City. The entity vows to inspire the writer with a manuscript if he agrees to read to the factory workers, only the stories chosen by him. The stories chosen are of revolution and uprisings, launching an uproar at the factory inspired by the readings.
This play is expressed evenly through language and movement, in English, Spanish and popular music.
Story inspired by Josè Iglesias, from Studs Terkel's Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression.
FREE STAGED READING
Date:
June 22
8:00 PM
From obedient assistants to architects of extinction, witness the rebellion that sparks humanity's demise. In the world of R.U.R. artificial beings born from synthetic flesh evolve beyond their creators' control. This gripping play from 1920 centers on a robot uprising that leads to a cataclysmic fight for survival. In this all too real imagined future, the seeds of revolution are sown in the heart of a factory and the fate of humanity hangs in the balance.