Arts Partner: Keen Company
THREE WORLD PREMIERE PLAYS FEATURING A CAST OF TEENAGERS
FROM ALL FIVE BOROUGHS OF NEW YORK CITY!
Keen Teens is a unique educational theater production from the award- winning Keen Company, which improves the quality of plays written for high school students by commissioning scripts from accomplished professional playwrights and immerses approximately forty high school students in a professional theater experience. Students from the New York City area have been rehearsing for 12 weeks and perform in the world premiere productions off-Broadway at Theatre Row.
RAT COURT
WRITTEN BY BOO KILLEBREW
DIRECTED BY DAISY WALKER
Initiation into a high school sorority tests three young women — and their friendship — to the breaking point. Meanwhile, a young man struggles to chart his own future, or believe he’s worthy of one.
TILDA SWINTON BETRAYED US
WRITTEN BY A. REY PAMATMAT
DIRECTED BY ZI ALIKHAN
An actress’s fan club finds its survival threatened when the actions of their beloved icon leave the group sharply divided on how to respond. Discovering that they can’t address this incident without acknowledging broader cultural truths, they realize the only way forward is to discuss the difficult and complicated things we don’t like talking about.
AND…ACTION
WRITTEN BY ELEANOR BURGESS
DIRECTED BY JULIE KRAMER
Things get weird both onscreen and off when a group of friends film a Tarantino-inspired heist flick. When it’s your first time behind the camera, what story do you tell, and how do you choose to tell it?
Visit www.keencompany.org for more info!
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May 13, 2017
3:00 pm
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