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LUNAR ENERGY PRODUCTIONS
PRESENTS
BY RIGHTS WE SHOULD BE GIANTS
WORLD PREMIERE
CREATED & WRITTEN BY NADIA SEPSENWOL & TIM
VAN DYCK
DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER DIERCKSEN
PRESS OPENING OCTOBER 18
OCTOBER 18-NOVEMBER 3 @ THE SECRET THEATRE
Lunar Energy Productions will present the World
Premiere of By Rights We Should Be Giants, created and written
by Lunar Energy ensemble members Nadia Sepsenwol and Tim Van Dyck,
October 18-November 3 at The Secret Theatre (4402 23rd
Street between 44th Avenue and 44th Road, Long Island
City). The production will be directed by Christopher Diercksen
(The Seagull at The Secret) and will feature Bob C. Armstrong (All’s
Well That Ends Well with New York Classical Theatre), Brenda Currin* (Obie
Award winner for Wendy Kesselman’s My Sister in This House with
Second Stage Theatre), Rebecca Hirota, Caitlin Johnston, Mariana Newhard,
Casey Robinson, Theo Salter, George Salazar* (Godspell on Broadway),
Nadia Sepsenwol, Brendan Spieth*, and Liesel Allen Yeager. The creative
team will include Set Design by Jonathan Cottle, Lighting Design by Alana
Jacoby (Death Valley with AntiMatter Collective), Costume Design
by Kristen M. Singer (The Seagull for Wandering Bark Theatre Company),
and Original Music by Franklin James Fisher. The production will be Stage
Managed by Aislinn Curry.
*Appearing courtesy of the Actors’ Equity Association
In 2008, a Midwestern family of would-be intellectuals
and frustrated artists are facing the possibility of economic ruin, when
they are unexpectedly visited by a company of soldiers returning from Afghanistan.
Inspired by Anton Chekhov’s classic drama Three Sisters,
By Rights We Should Be Giants sheds light
on the dwindling American middle class and the challenges of starting anew
in a rapidly changing world.
The production, presented by the Lunar Energy Productions
at The Secret Theatre (4402 23rd Street between 44th
Avenue and 44th Road, Long Island City) will play a three-week
engagement October 18-November 3; Wednesday through Saturday at
8pm and Sundays at 2pm (no performance Wednesday, October 31). Tickets
($18) may be purchased online at http://www.smarttix.com
or by calling 212-868-4444.
NADIA SEPSENWOL (Co-Writer) has a recent MFA in
acting from Columbia University. Acting credits include: Before Placing
Me On Your Shelf (with Lunar Energy Productions); Spoon River Anthology
(Invisible Dog); Three Graces (3LD/Ice Factory Festival); Romeo
and Juliet (Classic Stage Company); The Tempest (Folkswang Festival,
Essen, Germany); Big Love (Setkani/Encounters Festival, Brno, Czech
Republic); and Waiting for Godot. Her adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's
Kreutzer Sonata was produced as part of her honors thesis in comparative
literature at The University of Virginia.
TIM VAN DYCK (Co-Writer) attended the University
of Virginia where he majored in English. A founding member of Third Man
Productions he has written and performed in numerous plays around the city.
CHRISTOPHER DIERCKSEN (Director) specializes in
developing and directing new plays. Previous directing credits include:
Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, translated by Graham Schmidt; The
Henchmen by Bryce Norbitz; MASTODON JUAN by Katharine
Sherman; Crawl For It by Joshua Conkel; Parabolas by
Kelley Girod. As Literary Manager for Lunar Energy Productions, he
runs MOONSHINE: a quarterly play development reading series: In
Antarctica, Where It Is Very Warm by Jona Tarlin; Dreams
Of The Penny Gods by Callie Kimball. Christopher trained at the
Eugene O'Neill Theater Center and is a graduate of Albright College.
LUNAR ENERGY is a New-York based theater company
dedicated to transformation and re-imagination. In a culture of habit,
routine, and been-there-done-that fatigue, we believe it is vital to seek
out the surprising in the familiar. To that end, our productions play with
perspective and context in order to reveal unexpected aspects of stories
and situations we thought we knew.
Previous productions include Katharine Sherman’s christopher
marlowe’s chloroform dreams at The Red Room (April 2012), Before
Placing Me On Your Shelf, adapted and directed by Philip Gates from
poems by James Tate, (FringeNYC 2011, Manhattan Theatre Source) and like
the night by Katharine Sherman at The Tank (April 2009). Lunar Energy
also produces MOONSHINE, a reading series geared towards new play
development.
“Sherman’s vibrant language shifts and
morphs from hard-boiled, snappy Bogart/Bacall banter, through rhythmic
Beat poetics, pulpit fire and brimstone, to gin-soaked Tom Waites-ian monologues…Chloroform
Dreams is a knockout.” The Happiest Medium
(christopher marlowe’s chloroform dreams)
“A strange and poetic drama that explores all sorts of
storytelling…a hypnotic, but odd, dreamscape… it’s intriguing and provocative.”
Broadway World
(christopher marlowe’s chloroform dreams)
“The first scene grabbed me and held me until the last
scene… an evening of brilliantly fresh theater… this production is fringe
theater at its best.” nytheatre.com
(Before Placing Me On Your Shelf)
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