Based on the legendary New York court trial of Ruth Snyder in 1927, Sophie Treadwell’s 1928 Expressionist play uncovers the life of a woman who must choose between fulfilling the world’s mechanized expectations and abandoning convention in order to live freely, whatever the costs. Now in 2011, this imaginative production uses aerial choreo…graphy and live music with an ensemble cast to illustrate with stunning theatricality the tension between social suffocation and independent breath.
DIRECTION Jess K Smith
SCENIC Deb O
LIGHTING Carl Wiemann
SOUND/MUSIC Daniel Kluger and Ted Pallas
COSTUME Bryen Shannon
AERIAL CHOREOGRAPHY Sy Parrish
GRAPHIC Nik Perleros
PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGEMENT Amy Steinman
GENERAL MANAGEMENT Alona Fogel
DRAMATURGY Emily Madison
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGEMENT Ellen Mezzera and Brittney Reimert
FEATURING Mary Archias, Gabriel Baron, Tom Cleary*, Mike James, Adam Lebowitz-Lockard, Lamar Lewis, Joel Ripka*, Clea Rivera*, and Shelley Virginia*
*Appears courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association
March 9-11, 8 p.m.
March 12, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.*
Riverside Theatre, New York
Graphic Design by Nik Perleros