ANTIGONE
(7 actors)
SITI Company’s most recent addition to its repertoire is ANTIGONE, Irish writer Jocelyn Clarke’s starkly contemporary retelling of Sophocles’ classic tale of family loyalty, patriotism, war, and the powers of the state. SITI Company's embodiment of one of humankind's most enduring and influential stories is a powerful theatrical and emotionally charged experience that is shockingly relevant to our present cultural and historic moment.
RADIO MACBETH
(7 actors)
Radio Macbeth takes place late at night in the guts of an abandoned theater. Actors circle restlessly around the common shared warmth of a rehearsal table, moving through the bullet of Shakespeare’s briefest and perhaps most magnetic play. Around them, in the perimeter of the space, the ghosts of all previous productions hover and encroach. The spirits of ambition, violence, fortune, fate, free will, hubris, vengeance, pride, indecision, paradox, the eternal male-female conflict and madness flicker and glow. The actors cling to the sanity of words while the chaos of history grows to be undeniably present with them in the room.
WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE
(6 actors)
Inspired by recent breakthroughs in neuroscience WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE is based on discoveries around neuroplasticity, mirror neurons and the body/brain/memory/emotions connection. The play looks at how the human experience and human biology influence each other.
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
(9 actors)
The third installment in the American Museum Cycle, written by Chuck Mee, is a collage of America today--scenes and songs and dances inspired by Norman Rockwell of the fifties, and scenes and songs and dances inspired by the installation artist of the present day, Jason Rhoades: Rockwell and Rhoades juxtaposed side by side--the fifties and the present, the red states and the blue states, where we grew up and where we live today. Each night a different collage of scenes might be performed in a different order. And so, in this way, the piece will remain, like America, permanently under construction.