About This Show
Nine Nights of Creative Disobedience. A pre-convention festival of hoots, howls, music, rap, dance, comedy, cabaret, and poetry.
Schedule
Tuesday 8/24
7:00pm “Tea for Three” by Eric Weinberger & Elaine Bromka
8:30pm Sketch comedy, including work by James Brunt, Heather Collis, Molly Fite, Ben Knox, Michael Maiello, Craig Pospisil, and David Stott
10:30pm Opening night PARTY – come toast America!
Wednesday 8/25
7:00pm “Tea for Three” by Eric Weinberger & Elaine Bromka
8:30pm Anthony Burgess’ “A Clockwork Orange,” by the Godlight Theatre Company
Thursday 8/26
7:00pm “girlstory”: a multigenerational choreopoem featuring Menaka Menon, Mauricia Mullings, Jasmin Morales, Chastity Seda, Lisa Ascalon and Ellen Hagen
8:30pm Youngblood: Work by members of EST’s emerging playwrights company, including Ross Maxwell, Sharyn Rothstein, and Phil Schmiedl
11:00pm “Creative Disobedience Cabaret”: an unpredictable array of bellowing, rapping, singing, dancing and celebration of free speech.
Friday 8/27
7:00pm American Voices: work by the members of EST including Warren Leight, Shirley Kaplan, James Ryan, Randee Smith, and Eliza Beckwith
8:30pm American Voices
11:00pm Creative Disobedience Cabaret, with MC Keith “Wild Child” Middleton from STOMP
Saturday 8/28
7:00pm American Voices
8:30pm American Voices
11:00pm Creative Disobedience Cabaret
Sunday 8/29
7:00pm .Lab Work – Pieces Developed in EST Labs: “Marriage Hetero Style” by Linda Herskovic, “Quince and Kerry” by Jack Levin, “Westport” by Stephen O’Rourke, and “Underground, the Continuing Tale of the 3 Little Pigs” by Larry Pontius
8:30pm New EST Writers, featuring “Red State/Blue State” by Gregory Jones, “That Fucking Tuesday” by Annie McRae, and “CUTRS” originally produced by The Drilling Company
Monday 8/30
7:00pm “Only We Who Guard The Mystery Shall Be Unhappy” by Tony Kushner, and “The War Piece” choreographed by Allison Easter
8:30pm “Buck Hunter,”a musical play about love, by Emily
Conbere
Tuesday 8/31
7:00pm “Buck Hunter,” a musical play about love, by Emily Conbere
8:30pm “The War Piece” choreographed by Allison Easter, and “Creative Disobedience: Best of the Cabaret”
Wednesday 9/1
7:00pm Anthony Burgess’ “A Clockwork Orange,” by the Godlight Theatre Company
8:30pm Sketch comedy, including work by James Brunt, Heather Collis, Molly Fite, Ben Knox, Michael Maiello, Craig Pospicils, and David Stott
10:30pm Closing Night PARTY – come toast America again!
Schedule subject to change. Call 212-247-7982 or see www.ensemblestudiotheatre.org for more information