St Ann's Warehouse announces 2014/2015 Season

8/6/2014 4:00pm


St. Ann’s Warehouse, will soon open its first permanent home, a 25,000-sf cultural center at the site of the Tobacco Warehouse, on the waterfront in Brooklyn Bridge Park. While construction continues and St. Ann’s works to raise the final $2 million of its $30 million capital campaign, the organization will present a final season in its temporary home at 29 Jay Street in Dumbo. It kicks off this October with the America Premiere of TR Warszawa's production of Sarah Kane’s 4:48 PSYCHOSIS (Oct 16 - Oct 26) adapted and directed by Grzegorz Jarzyna. A lacerating and lyrical depiction of a mind on the edge starring Magdalena Cielecka. Next up will be The Tiger Lillies' SONGS OF HORROR AND HAVOC (Oct 30 - Nov 1)  the wondrously wicked cabaret icons, for a Halloween performance of deranged hits and new favorites. In November St Anne's will presents the New York Premiere of Kneehigh'sTRISTAN & YSEULT (Nov 13 - Dec 7) by Carl Grose & Anna Maria Murphy adapted & directed by Emma Rice. Based on an epic ancient tale from Cornwall, Tristan & Yseult revels in forbidden desires, broken hearts, grand passions, and tender truths. Seen through the eyes of the Unloved, this thrill-ride of a production marries gorgeous live music and jaw-dropping theatricality in an irresistible night of amorous exuberance. Next up is Beth Morrison Projects, HERE Prototype's Carmina Slovenica present TOXIC PSALMS (Jan 8 - Jan 11, 2015), directed by Karmina Šilec performed by Vocal Theatre Carmina Slovenica. Carmina Slovenica is a Slovenian "vocal theatre" company, world renowned for their unconventional choral storytelling, adding opera, drama, and movement. In Toxic Psalms, the almost sinister music mirrors the unspeakable violences and victimizations across our world today. Last up will be The Wooster Group's CRY, TROJANS! (Mar 24 - Apr 19, 2015) by William Shakespeare. Cry, Trojans!originated as a coproduction with the Royal Shakespeare Company of Troilus and Cressida. In that collaboration, the two companies took opposite sides in the Trojan War. Seeking an American angle for this encounter with the RSC and the language of Shakespeare, the Wooster Group, along with Dutch artist Folkert deJong, reimagined the Trojans as a fictional tribe of early Americans struggling to assert its dignity as doom closes in. Directed by Elizabeth LeCompte, featuring Jim Fletcher, Ari Fliakos, Koosil-ja, Greg Mehrten, Suzzy Roche, Scott Shepherd, Casey Spooner & Kate Valk. Set elements, props, and costumes by Folkert de Jong; sound score by Bruce Odland; lighting by Jennifer Tipton. Press contact: Blake Zidell & Associates  (718/643-9052)