ATB x Aeronaut: A Fall Residency

When:
Friday, Nov 13, 2015 6:00p -
10:30p
Repeats weekly

Where:
Aeronaut Brewing Co
14 Tyler Street
Somerville, MA 02143

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Admission:
FREE

Categories:
Alcohol, Art, Festivals & Fairs, Food, Music, Nightlife, Performing Arts, Social Good

Event website:
http://www.artiststheater.org

ATB x Aeronaut:
Artists’ Theater of Boston is collaborating with Aeronaut Brewery in Somerville to present three FREE nights of theater, art, and music. On each Friday from 10/30 to 11/13, one play will be performed at Aeronaut at 6 pm, alongside music and the work of other artists centered on the theme of the night’s play. More information about each play is below.


The residency culminates with a free festival on Saturday 11/21 including performances of all three plays, a panel discussion of the themes and cultural contexts surrounding each play including very special guests to be revealed the week of the festival, performances of art and music from collaborating local artists, informational tables from local organizations whose missions and work alligns with the themes of our plays, and more goodies tba over the next month leading up to the event!


ATB hopes donations raised during the residency will go a long way towards our goal of compensating all members of our collective in our next production!


THE PLAYS:


Drunk Enough To Say I Love You
By Caryl Churchill
Directed by Tom King
Performed Friday 10/30 and Saturday 11/21
Just what would you do for love? To be loved? To what abuses of power—his, yours—would you consent? Guy needs Sam, and Sam is nothing without Guy. But Sam, it turns out, is a country. And Guy? Well, he’s just a guy. No, wait, let’s try that again.


As Sam and Guy work ever more desperately to reinvent the power that charges their relationship, Caryl Churchill’s Drunk Enough to Say I Love You offers a critique of the U.S. state's neo-imperialist foreign policy, inaction on climate change, and clandestine abuses of human rights abroad in the name of protecting freedoms at home. In the name of “the pursuit of happiness.” To protect a way of life.


But U.S. history, and its critique, doesn’t simply belong to those with gender and race privilege. Working with an ensemble, the ATB production of Drunk Enough to Say I Love You explores how a major question of the play—what one will do to be recognized and loved as a citizen of the U.S., to enjoy freedom, and to pursue happiness—applies not only to the everyman of Churchill's script but to members of other communities who lack what the educated white man Guy has: full citizenship, real opportunities to pursue happiness, a normative identity to be lost or given up, and the agency, both personal and political, to navigate entrenched structures of power and appropriate power as an expression of one’s own individuality.
CAST:
Sam # 1: Tony Rios
Guy # 1: Will Jobs
Sam #2: Ernest Paulin
Guy #2: Mara Palma
Sam #3: Paola Ferrer
Guy #3: Anneke Reich
Sam #4: Julia Davidovitz


Full Term (a new play)
By Jess Foster
Directed by Josh Glenn-Kayden
Performed Friday 11/6 and Saturday 11/21
At the brink of starting the family life she’s always wanted, Toni instead finds herself trying to recover from her break-up with the aid of her not-always-helpful and seemingly always pregnant sister. Funny and full of heart, Full Term explores how we choose and create our families.
CAST:
Reg: Hayley Sherwood
Toni: Elizabeth Hylton
Chrissy: Tonasia Jones


Daughter of Venus
By Howard Zinn
Directed by Jess Ernst
Performed Friday 11/13 and Saturday 11/21
Daughter of Venus is historian Howard Zinn’s exploration of where the personal and the political intersect. In a violent world divided by politics into “us versus them,” members of the Matteoti family wrestle with what it means to do the right thing. Is it your responsibility to work within a broken system to ameliorate the inevitable, or does working within that system bloody your hands to the point where your good intentions become irrelevant? Is total resistance the only way forward, no matter how Sisyphean it may seem? And what happens when the people you love most in the world fall on the opposite side of the debate from you? Family drama and political drama intertwine as multiple generations struggle, fail, and succeed in the ongoing quest to understand the people you thought you knew.
CAST:
Aramintha: Sophia Koevary
Jamie: Cody Sloan
Lucy: Dana Block
Lendl: Bob Stachel
Paolo: Tom Grenon

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