Orpheus Descending

Name: Orpheus Descending
Start: 2023-08-06T19:30:00-04:00
Location: Polonsky Shakespeare Center

August 6, 2023

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Price

Standard: $90 to $125

Includes: $7 convenience fee

Location

Polonsky Shakespeare Center

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Orpheus Descending

Description

Tennessee Williams’ Orpheus Descending tells the story of the passion of two outcasts—Lady Torrance, a storekeeper’s wife and daughter of a murdered Sicilian bootlegger and Val, a wandering guitar player—and their attempt to escape from a Southern Hell.

Set in a small town dry-goods store in the Deep South, Orpheus Descending is a toxic brew of racist violence, bigotry, misogyny, sexual passion and longing for liberation.

Maggie Siff

(Billions, Mad Men and Sons of Anarchy) plays Lady Torrance and Pico Alexander (Catch 22, Simon Stephens’ Punk Rock and A.R. Gurney’s What I Did Last Summer) is Valentine Xavier.

Erica Schmidt

who adapted and directed Shakespeare’s Macbeth for seven schoolgirls entitled Mac Beth (“raucously exuberant”) and this season’s Lucy which she wrote and directed (“seamlessly layered, extraordinarily entertaining and …cleverly detailed”), stages, in her TFANA debut, this seldom-seen Williams masterpiece.

BY:

Denis Johnson

DIRECTED BY:

Arin Arbus

FEATURING:

Christian Camargo
As King Richard

Thomas Jay Ryan
As Henry Bolingbroke

SCENE DESIGN BY:

Ricardo Hernández

Costume Design by

QWEEN JEAN

Lighting Design by

SCOTT ZIELINSKI

Original Music & Sound Design by

MIKAAL SULAIMAN

Choreography by

BYRON EASLEY

Voice Director

ANDREW WADE

Dramaturgy by

JONATHAN KALB

Fight Direction by

J. DAVID BRIMMER

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