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< 1984
Directed by Tim Robbins and based on Orwell’s epic novel, this adaptation by Michael Gene Sullivan is touring the world with engagements at major festivals in Athens, Hong Kong and Melbourne.
“Watching the manacled and electric-shocked victim slide from confession to grovelling submission is harrowing, a visceral kick. The climax, where the re-educated Smith is literally confronted with his worst nightmare, drew gasps from the audience.”
–The Australian News 2006 |
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< Titus, The Clownicus
and
Pericles on the High Seas
With these freely adapted versions of Shakespeare’s plays, The Gang presents your choice of two-hour length family-friendly entertainment. |
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< Gulliver’s Travels
Jonathan Swift’s biting political/ social satire makes for a bawdy, comedic, and irreverent romp. It’s an adult tale that has long been hijacked for kids. This is the grown-up version – an acidic attack on pride, hypocrisy, ingratitude, cruelty, war, lawyers, money, imperialism, and politics. |
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< The Women of Lockerbie
In this intensely powerful drama, the mother of a Pan Am 103 victim confronts the women of the village as they fight for permission to wash the clothes recovered from the wreckage and return them to the surviving loved ones.
“a stunning display of raw emotion, a powerhouse drama whose evocation of unthinkable loss and a path to redemption is a masterful and cathartic experience.”
–Variety |
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< The Exonerated
“To speak of life-or-death stakes in The
Exonerated is,
for once, no exaggeration. Created and directed by New York-based
Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen from interviews they conducted
with former death
row inmates whose wrongful convictions were eventually overturned,
a riveting Actors’ Gang staging examines capital punishment and
the justice
system in chilling terms.”
–Los
Angeles Times 2003 |
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< The Mysteries
“Few things are more exciting in the
theater than pure creativity, and so it proves in The Mysteries at
the Actors’ Gang. Director-adapter Brian Kulick’s exploration of
medieval mystery plays (and their antecedents) is wildly inventive,
with one bemusing
drawback.”
–Los Angeles Times 2003 |
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< The Guys
“At
Actors’ Gang, where The Guys began
an open-ended, rotating celebrity run Thursday, it falls to Helen
Hunt and Tim Robbins to hold an audience captive for 90 wrenching
– yet strangely soothing – minutes.”
–Los
Angeles Daily News 2001 |
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< Embedded
“As a piece of theater, Embedded is
as snarlingly eloquent as a garage-rock guitar solo. as a rowdy
and engaging polemic… Uncompromising… fueled by the author’s
outraged intelligence and a boisterous cast of 13, it stays in
motion for a briskly
amusing, intermittently disturbing 1 1⁄2 hours… Savagely
witty and incisive… it cannily blends in actual reportage by the
likes of BBC reporter John Simpson and Alan Feuer of the New York
Times to convey the agonized business of trying to ascertain truth
in the most
trying circumstances. War is hell, we tell ourselves, yet time
and again humanity finds new ways to strut down that fiery path.
With Embedded, Robbins
gives practically everyone hell for joining in the parade.”
–Los
Angeles Times 2004 |
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< Mephisto
“Commedia del arte, masks and Asian theatre
fit superbly into the revolutionary cabaret theatre depicted here.
The sincere and passionate performances from the ensemble are complemented
by astute stagecraft. Mephisto is an unforgettable piece of work,
both
in content and presentation, and a dazzling anniversary present
to us of the relevance of great classical art.”
–Curtain-Up 2001 |
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< Self Defense
“‘Honey, I killed a man today.’ That
blank statement hardly indicates the sardonic force of ‘Self
Defense or, death of some salesmen’ at the Actors' Gang. The
West Coast premiere of Carson Kreitzer's 2001 fantasia about executed
murderer Aileen Wuornos is stunning, true political theater with
a visceral punch.”
–Los Angeles Times 2004
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