Nayatt School Redux

Nayatt School Redux reanimates Nayatt School, an original 1978 Wooster Group production composed by Elizabeth LeCompte and Spalding Gray. Nayatt School Redux opens with a monologue from longtime Wooster Group member Kate Valk. She reveals newly-restored archival video recordings of Gray’s opening monologue from the original production. In it, Gray described his beginnings in the theater and played LPs from his record collection, including an LP of T.S. Eliot’s The Cocktail Party. Valk tells her own stories of how she came to work with The Wooster Group in the late 1970s. Then Valk and the Group’s current company channel scenes from the original production, including the climactic sequences of The Cocktail Party.

The piece will feature performances by Ari Fliakos, Andrew Maillet, Michaela Murphy, Suzzy Roche, Scott Shepherd,  Maura Tierney, Kate Valk, and Omar Zubair. Elizabeth LeCompte will direct and design the production.