2008 Season
A Midsummer Night’s Dream | June 5-22, 2008 (CLOSED)
by William Shakespeare
Directed by August Schulenburg
Other Bodies | (CLOSED)
by August Schulenburg
Directed by Heather Cohn
Angel Eaters Trilogy | November 3rd - November 22nd
by Johnna Adams
Angel Eaters directed by Jessi D. Hill
Rattlers directed by Jerry Ruiz
8 Little Antichrists directed by Kelly O’Donnell
We begin in the spring with Shakespeare’s classic comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, followed in the summer by August Schulenburg’s haunting tragedy, Other Bodies and finish in the fall with Johanna Adams’ divinely wild Angel Eaters trilogy.
Why these plays? Because they all wrestle in their own unique way with the mystery of how life transforms the body.
Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is rightfully considered one of his most warm and humours plays, but it is also a subtly troubling exploration of the instability of our bodies. The characters find their hearts and bodies trasnformed against their will, and though in the end Jack will have Jill, no one walks away from this bottomless dream unchanged.
This warm-hearted vision of Midsummer becomes a fever dream in August Schulenburg’s Other Bodies. The playwright of last year’s FringeNYC Village Voice Audience Favorite, Riding the Bull, returns with the story of Terry, a notorious player whose pursuit of a mysterious woman leads to obsession and violence. What begins as a seductive battle of the sexes deepens into a haunting parable of the way our bodies betray us.
While Midsummer blurs the line between man and animal, and Other Bodies charts the distance between woman and man, Johanna Adams’ Angel Eaters expands into more celestial transformations. Flux will develop this trilogy as it follows a family cursed through generations with the gift of raising the dead. The borders of Heaven and Hell are transgressed as demons masquerade as angels, angels pursue their own uncertain agendas and even the sweetest mortals grow horns!
Join us in 2008 as Flux journeys through these deeply human and uniquely theatrical plays of transformation.