The Most Unkindest Cut is an IETC initiative that workshops bold cuts of classical texts, recontextualizing them for a modern audience. Through this project, we hope to explore great plays from fresh angles, and bring our audience new ways of engaging with these beloved stories.

Up Next:

A Midsummer Night’s Dream
by William Shakespeare
directed by Liz Thaler

“Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born?”

Tuesday, November 5th and Wednesday, November 6th
7:30p.m.
New Georges’ The Room
520 8th Avenue, 3rd Floor
between W 36th and W 37th Streets
free of charge

All is not well in Athens. Hermia loves Lysander—but her father would much prefer she marry someone white. Demetrius wants Hermia—but rumors abound about his tryst with a young man named Helena. And as the lovers chase each other through the unfamiliar wood, fairy ‘king’ Oberon is having her own relationship troubles. Puck, of course, can sort this all out, but not the way anyone was hoping…

Featuring Franny Civitano, Maxon Davis*, Rob Hille*, Matthew Murumba*, Brittany Parker, Andrew Simon, Marshall Spann*, and Kathleen Wallace*.

*Appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association

 

 

Last Season:

{being an Accurate & Objective Depiction of The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark as set forth by William Shakespeare}

One freezing night, a troubled prince disappears onto a rampart. He returns, ten minutes later, completely changed. What happens to Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy when we’re not privy to its hero’s thoughts? Is he still the hero? In Extremis Theater Company’s HMLT is an experiment in storytelling: no soliloquies, no asides, and no ghosts–just a close, hard look at one of the best-and-worst-known characters in the English canon.