Poetic Theater Productions presents
"Back"
by Mickey Bolmer
Directed by Andrew Willis-Woodward
Production Design and Movement Direction by Rachel Klein
featuring Xandra Clark, Mateo d’Amato, Tamara Geisler, Matthew Dalton Lynch, Felix J. Mayes, Olivia Nice, Bello Pizzimenti and Adam Wennick
Set amidst the backdrop of a Greenwich Village gay club on Halloween 1989, the village partygoers take on the personas of past friends and lovers, many of whom lost their lives to AIDS. In her last days of life, Cookie Mueller makes a final journey to Varick Street to find her friends, or possibly to stop time, or perhaps to explore her history, or maybe just to dream. Everyone is invited to the tragedy party as Mickey Bolmer's rich poetic language takes us Back into the worlds of Aaron Burr, Frank O'Hara and Cookie Mueller: a world of love, loss, creation, and possibility.
Scenic and Properties Design by Elizabeth Engstrom
Costume Design by Arielle Avenia
Lighting Design by Derek Miller
Sound Design by Isaiah Singer
Video Design by Brad Peterson
Dramaturgy by Fiona Kyle
Audio Engineering by Sean Hagerty
Stage Management by Miriam Salzman
Assistant Stage Management by Sarah Livant
Production Management by Siena Zoë Allen
Audience members are invited to attend in period appropriate attire to celebrate an evening of vogue, sexuality, history, and experimentation.
A free drink will be provided with every ticket.