Mr. Snow runs the drama therapy group at a (fictional) reformatory known as The Phlogiston Foundation, a unique facility for women who’ve been convicted of violent crimes, but who have remarkable aptitudes in science, technology and art. The Phlogiston Foundation routinely parades their ‘successes’ before the public, often in high profile civic venues (such as The Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage.) Tonight, the audience arrives expecting to see the inmates perform The Tempest, but their performance is delayed when the wrong costumes and props arrive. What arises from this mishap will forever alter the course of The Tempest, the prisoners’ lives and our own notions of creativity.
1995 : Presented by Creative Time in The Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage
Company
Written by W. David Hancock
Directed by Melanie Joseph
Performed by:
Doris Difarnecio
Venida Evans
Dor Green
Pamela Gray
Jim Himelsbach
Annette Hunt
Lee Nagrin
Molly Powell
Ching Valdes-Aran
Set & Lighting: Teddy Jefferson
Costumes: Doey Luethi
Sound Design: David Van Tieghem
Composers: David Van Tieghem & Grisha Coleman
Production Stage Manager: N. Bonnie Reese
Stage Manager: Theresa Gonzalez
Press Representative: Carol Fineman
Press
Ross Wetzsteon The Village Voice
” a chilling inversion of the Tempest’s celebration of art as liberty.”
Alisa Solomon, The Village Voice
Drama Desk nominee for “Most Original Theatrical Experience”
– Act 2 of Deviant Craft