Event

THREE SISTERS

by Anton Chekhov
Directed by Elana McKelahan
September 4-28, 2014

It's 2040 and Brooklyn is burning. Seek refuge with the Prozorov family as they sing, dance, and philosophize their way through the night in this immersive, site-specific production of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters. Audience members will experience opulence amid decay in a dystopian Brooklyn where economic inequality and police surveillance have become the norm.

Within the safety of the Prozorov Estate, you will enjoy live music, food, and drink as you follow the actors through a magnificent historic building in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.

As a guest of the Prozorovs, you must choose your own experience in this dystopian social experiment within Chekhov's masterpiece. Will you work in the servant's quarters with a 99¢ Serf ticket? Or will you opt for the luxury of a $99 Tsar ticket? The choice is yours. But your choice doesn't have to be permanent. Revolution is coming, and with it a chance to rise or fall in status. Return for a new experience and receive major discounts to experience Chekhov's world through a new lens.

CAST
Akyiaa Wilson - Olga
Eliza Simpson - Masha
Carolina Do - Irina
Stacy Salvette - Andrey
Rebecca Behrens - Natasha
Gabriel Christian - Tuzenbach
Thomas Muccioli - Kulygin
Mac Wallach - Vershinin
Karin Agstam - Rohde
Meridith Jones - Anfisa
Andy Ingalls - Solyony
Terrence Montgomery - Chebutykin
Camara McLaughlin - Ferapont/Fedotik

GUARDS
Leana Gardella
Anya Gibian
Anita Raswant

MUSICIANS
Julia Christgau
Chloe Delaitre
John Stegmaier

DESIGNERS
Set Designer - Ventiko
Assistant Set Designer - Margaux Maeght
Costumes - Misha Pyle
Lighting Designer - Jonathan Cottle
Sound Design - Gahyae Ryu
Composer & Sound Designer - Stephen Bennett
Video Design - Aaron Soldner

Executive Stage Manager - Andy Ingalls
Stage Manager - Spencer Kimball
Assistant Stage Manager - Anita Raswant
Assistant Stage Manager - Anya Gibian
Production Manager - Octavia Driscoll

Director - Elana McKelahan
Community Outreach - Ben McKelahan
Marketing/PR/Ticketing - Julia Heitner

TICKETS:
Tickets range from 99¢ to $99. Audience members choose their own immersive experience of the play by purchasing tickets at various class levels. Experiences range from working alongside the servants as a Serf ($0.99 a ticket), to a luxury experience as a Tsar where you will be showered with gifts and given seating befitting an honored guest ($99 per ticket).

Serfs: You will be following the servants throughout the show, YOU WILL WORK during the show.

Proletariat: You are a member of the working class. You may be searched upon entrance.

Bourgeoisie: You will enter through the front door as party guests. You must however pay for your own drinks.

Aristocracy: You will enter through the front door as party guests. You are an honored guest. You will be served a selection of delicacies and beverages from Fresh Fanatic Cafe and Corkscrew Wines. Ticket price includes one drink ticket for the bar.

Tsars: You are royalty and will be treated as such and lavished with gifts which MAY INCLUDE a pre-show serenade and the best beverage and food we have to offer from Fresh Fanatic Cafe and Corkscrew Wines. Ticket also includes two drink tickets for the bar.

LOCATION:
259 Washington Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11205

TRANSPORTATION:
G Train-Clinton/Washington Stop (5 minute walk)
C Train-Clinton/Washington Stop (15 minute walk)
Atlantic Terminal (20 minute walk)

RULES OF THE HOUSE:

Footwear:
Due to the highly active nature of the production we encourage all audience members wear COMFORTABLE FOOTWEAR with CLOSE TOED SHOES.

Please Pack Lightly:
You may be required to carry your belongings with you throughout the production. The only thing you will need is CASH if you plan to purchase drinks or snacks from the bar.

Food and Drink:
Drinks and light snacks will be available throughout the performance in the lounge. The bar is CASH only.

Special Accommodations:
During the show the audience is required to walk up and down multiple staircases. If you would like to attend and require special accommodations please contact hitpublicityteam@gmail.com with your request and we will do our best to provide you with an experience that suits your needs.

Top photo by Ventiko (http://ventiko.com/)

Bottom photos by Laura S. Keller (http://www.lauraskeller.com/)

ABOUT HIGHLY IMPRACTICAL THEATRE

Highly Impractical Theatre, a Brooklyn-based organization that creates site-specific theatre that is bold, immersive, and experiential. We produce and develop socially relevant plays for unconventional spaces and engage audiences in an active, sensory experience of stories. In the past we have created plays inspired by and performed in exhibits at the Brooklyn Museum, transformed the daily grind of the offices of a San Francisco marketing firm into surreal adventures, and brought to life the history of a small town in Oregon by inhabiting its founding farmstead.

Highly Impractical Theatre is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization.

THREE SISTERS Team (selected Bios)

Elana McKelahan (Director) is a freelance theatre director based in New York City. She specializes in new work and radically reimagined classics, with an emphasis on site-specific and fully immersive theatre. She is the founding artistic director of Highly Impractical Theatre, which had its New York debut with The Spring Cycle at the Brooklyn Museum. She was an artistic associate at Women's Project Theater, where she served as a production and research assistant on Jackie and Bethany. Recent New York directing credits include The Sound by Lauren Yee (Highly Impractical Theatre), The Wall by Dipika Guha (Highly Impractical Theatre), Vanguard by Daniel John Kelley (Culture Project's Director's Weekend), Typecast by Lauren Hennessy (workshop at Culture Project's Women Center Stage Festival), a reading from Untameable by Daria Marinelli (Sanguine Theatre Company), staged readings in the ESPA Playwright's Festival (Primary Stages), and #serials@theflea; assistant directing The Understudy by Theresa Rebeck (directed by Jenn Haltman) The Hatmaker's Wife by Lauren Yee (directed by Rachel Chavkin, Playwrights Realm), Luce by JC Lee (directed by May Adrales, LCT3) and Preludes by Dave Malloy (directed by Rachel Chavkin, LCT3 workshop). Elana was a resident artist at Crowded Fire Theater in San Francisco, where she wrote and directed The Lysistrata Project (Crowded Fire Theater) and assistant directed Wreckage by Caridad Svich and Sticky Time by Marilee Talkington.

Rebecca Behrens (Natasha) is a recent graduate of Hamilton College and training programs at A.C.T. in San Francisco and the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. NY Theater: stuck but can't shut up (Yinzerspielen), The After-Dinner Joke (Paradise Factory), Helen is a Heterosexual (Producer's Club), Antigone (Columbia), Giver of Dreams (MCoC). Film: WAX, Loneliness, Ghostimage (Columbia Grad).

Gabriel Christian (Tuzenbach) (EMC) most recently performed as part of Figment/Governor's Island in a vignette in Wandering Whimsy. Other credits include: King John (Frog & Peach Theatre); In a Year with 13 Moons (Yale Repertory Theatre); and a flurry of undergraduate productions, most notably as Alceste in The Misanthrope.

Julia Heitner (PR/Marketing) is an actor, director and producer, and most recently served as assistant producer for Dogsbody by Erik Ehn, performing in San Francisco and at La Mama in New York. She has worked with HIT previously as an actor for The Spring Cycle and The Fenton Plays. She is the former co-artistic director of San Francisco Theater Pub, and worked with many other companies in the San Francisco Bay Area including PianoFight, Bay Area One Acts, Calshakes, Marin Shakespeare, Word for Word, Z Space, and the San Francisco production of Tony n' Tina's Wedding.

Andy Ingalls (Solyony) couldn't be more pleased than to make his HIT debut in Three Sisters. He's recently appeared as Watson in Watson: The Musical (WVMTF Best Musical; dir. Bryan Hunt), Michael in Rum and Vodka (Houston Press Award), and Nightmare in All In (Naked Radio, dir. Liz Carlson).

Ben McKelahan (Community Outreach) is a participatory artist, fairy tale writer, and Lutheran pastor in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Since chasing his first actor in a fully-immersive play, Ben has been fascinated with how to invite people into worlds and stories that allow them to remember the wonder and mystery of their every-day lives.

Thomas Muccioli (Kulygin) recent NY theatre credits: The Dead Person by Brooke Berman (Dir. Michelle Bossy), Hunting and Gathering, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, The Liddy Plays, The Comedy of Errors and a reading in the dark of Apparition by Anne Washburn (Dir. Christopher Mirto). Founding member of Crashbox Theater Company. Education: The Atlantic Theater Company.

Eliza Simpson (Masha) Theater: The Mysteries (The Flea), The Woodsman (59E59 Theaters), Merry Wives of Windsor (LATEA), Yankee Wives (NY Premiere), It's a Wonderful Life (Mile Square Theater), Twelfth Night (Rutgers Conservatory at Shakespeare's Globe, London) Film: Manchurian Candidate (Paramount Pictures), Rachel Getting Married (Sony Pictures Classic) BFA from Rutgers University. Current Member of The Bats Theater Co. At The Flea Theater.

Mac V. Wallach (Vershinin) just graduated NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where he studied at the Experimental Theatre Wing and Playwrights Horizons Theater School. He is more than thrilled to explore his tumultuous relationship with Chekhov with this group of groovy cats. Thanks to Mama, Paquito, Matt and Marina Abramovic for their continuous love and support.

Chloé Delaitre (Musician) is an actress, comedienne, and singer in NYC. Most recently she has had the great pleasure of working established directors such as Will Frears, Jackson Gay, Giovanna Sardelli, Lear Debessonet, and Alex Gemignani in both existing and original works. Some credits as of late include Sketch Comedy Show (The PIT),DelClose Marthon (UCB), Let Me Lie Here (Wright Theatre), Dreamers(Canon Theatre), First Lady of Christmas (New Ohio, NYC), Connectivity (Center Stage, NYC) and some other stuff. Training: Stella Adler Conservatory, BADA, Sarah Lawrence College. Thanks to Elana, Stephen, Julia and this wonderful cast. The road to Moscowawaits

Carolina Do (Irina) has recently graduated with a BFA in Acting from Brooklyn College. Her previous roles include Carlyle from The Stonewater Rapture, Daisi from The Winged Man (Jose Rivera), and Agnes from She Kills Monsters (Qui Nguyen). She is excited to have this project be her first site-specific production. Chekhov, no less!

Leana Gardella (Guard) is a part of the International Performance Ensemble at Pace University. She was recently in The Skriker which opened at the Here Arts Center in NY, NY, and over the summer traveled to Athens, Greece to perform Waiting for Lefty at the In.Fo.Ma.T festival. She is excited to take part in this production!

MERIDITH JONES (Anfisa) is thrilled to be performing for HIT with this wonderful cast and crew of generous, kind and talented creatives. Meridith is a founding member and the Artistic Director for NYC-based Crashbox Theater Company. She is a graduate of Atlantic Acting School Conservatory and has been proudly producing and performing in DIY theater for over ten years. Stage credits include Fool For Love (May, dir Mac Welch), The House of Yes (Jackie, dir Amber Malott), Killer Joe (Dotty, dir Leroy Clark), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Hermia, dir Leroy Clark),Reckless (Doctor 6, dir Paul Urcioli), and The Liddy Plays (Mother, dir Sharone Halevy). Film credits include Gracie Rose (dir. Jason Bailey), Lady Cop (dir. Erik Christopher Lopez), Karl & Bernie (dir Jason Bailey) and The Gift (dir. Svet Doytchinov). You can also hear her voice in the podcast series, The Adventures of Karl & Bernie and The Adventure Hour with Captain Punishment (Me & B Productions). In addition to performance she has served as a Props Designer and Stage Manager for several productions in the Midwest and NYC. She was an ensemble member and served as the President of the Board of Directors for the Kansas based company Theater On Consignment and received a Mary Jane Teal Theater Award for Excellence in the Kansas Theater Community.

Terrence Montgomery (Chebutykin) NY Stage: Kurt Diebner, Farm Hall; Ernest Hemingway in Ayn Rand in Wonderland; Mark Twain in Mark Twain and the General; Sir Toby in Twelfth Night; Duke of York in Richard II; Kind Edward in Richard III; Ghost in Hamlet; Professor Sheridan in The Fourth State of Matter; Newlywed Hostage Party; Article 46; The Tasting; Change; Tea and Sympathy; In Loving Memory; Southbridge; Dream House. On Film: Scott's Father in 419 Film; CEO in Kultur by Matthew Day Jackson; Dr. Marco Waterless; Molly: Brendan Television: Featured presenter AMNH commercial, Animal Planet: Mermaids; Fatal Encounters; Celebrity Ghost Stories. Print: Eli Lilly Hero Patient. Commercial: Holiday Inn Express: Farmer; Med Connect: Doctor. Terrence is also an acting coach and director of more than fifty plays.

Anita Raswant (ASM/Guard) is a well-traveled lover of fun, food and all things TV, film and theater. She entered the NYC theater scene this year and is loving it!

Gahyae Ryu (Sound design) is a sound designer/engineer. She recorded a bunch of music despite of genres while she was studying Music Production and Technology at the Hartt School and she got fascinated with sound design in theater. She just loves making sounds good.

Aaron Soldner (Video) is an artist and film maker based in Brooklyn. Interested in the intersection of film/video with other media, Aaron has collaborated with dancers, painters, sculptors, musicians, and stage artists to create pieces that fuse previously disparate aesthetics. Aaron's solo work is often concerned with highlighting the ordinary and the everyday that often goes unnoticed.

John Stegmaier (Musician) is an actor/writer/director from Connecticut. His next project will be directing Lord of the Flies at the Downtown Cabaret Theater in Bridgeport. He's been an actor for 12 years, and a writer his entire life.

Akyiaa Wilson (Olga) is thrilled to finally be channeling her inner Russian aristocrat in this production. She had the very good fortune to be a part of the company of the RSC's Julius Caesar at BAM last year. Recently member of the Bats at the The Flea, where she performed in the world premiere of Girls In Trouble, and as Clytemnestra in the epic These Seven Sicknesses as well many riotous weeks of #Serials@the Flea. Other highlights include, Feste in 12th Night of the Living Dead, the Fringe production of her co-creation, No Such Roses, at the Public Theater, with the 52nd St. Project, as Hermia in A Midsummer's Night Dream, and Mother in Blood Wedding. She holds a B.F.A. from Syracuse University.

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The Prozorov Estate
259 Washington Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11205
United States

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