Event

PIONEERS#goforth, by William Burke

Online sales end three hours prior to showtime. Tickets for all nights will be available for purchase at the door, first-come, first-serve. The box office opens 30 minutes prior to showtime.

PERFORMANCES:
March 24 - April 9 (Wednesdays - Saturdays, plus Monday, April 4) at 8pm
ADDED SHOW: Saturday, April 9 at 5 pm

TICKETS: $18, in advance at www.jackny.org or cash only at the door
Thursday, March 24 preview: $15

Run time: 75 minutes

After turning JACK into a canine kennel for 2015s "Comfort Dogs", and dramatizing the plight of a Times Square Elmo in "FURRY!!" (JACK, 2013), theater-maker William Burke returns to our venue with an audacious framework for his mystical texts. In "PIONEERS#goforth," Burke suspends actors Nikki Calonge, Zoë Geltman and Ugo Chukwu in a net above the audience for a play about making choices and the limitations placed on the experimental nature of our young. Composer/musician Catherine Brookman will provide live underscoring, employing her technical wizardry and ethereal voice.

With set designer Carolyn Mraz inverting the space, the audience views the performance from below, basking in beautiful, uninhibited youth and trying to balance the harmonies of the outdoors and the clanging silence of the indoors. This is a youth play. With a middle finger.

Featuring Nikki Calonge, Zoë Geltman and Ugo Chukwu.
Designed by Carolyn Mraz
Live music composed and performed by Catherine Brookman
Lights by Megan Lang

photo by Elina Novik.