SITI COMPANY

A seven-time Obie winner with a history of innovative work, SITI Company is an ensemble-based theater company led by Anne Bogart, dedicated to creating and touring bold new productions both nationally and internationally. A new, starkly contemporary ANTIGONE by Irish writer Jocelyn Clarke leads the extensive list of SITI Company’s touring productions for the 11-12 season. RADIO MACBETH – SITI’s unique approach to Shakespeare’s darkest tragedy – takes place late at night in an abandoned theater, as actors circle restlessly around the common warmth of a rehearsal table.

It is through the dialogue between Suzuki and Viewpoints, two distinct yet complementary approaches to the art of acting, that the philosophy and technique of SITI Company is continually explored, revitalized and articulated. The company’s master classes in these two methods make for very rich residencies.

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REPERTORY
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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.


RESIDENCIES
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One of the most important aspects of SITI's work is the teaching of the company’s two training techniques to actors and theater artists throughout the United States and the world. The Viewpoints and the Suzuki Method of Actor Training are two distinct methods of actor training used in building and staging SITI productions. SITI Company members, all of whom have been trained by Anne Bogart and Tadashi Suzuki, are specially qualified to introduce and train other theater artists in these challenging and innovative methods. Workshops can be arranged in conjunction
with performances.

TECHNICAL RIDER
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