Season Two
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THE DEATH OF BESSIE SMITHOn January 9, 2014, New Brooklyn Theatre opened its site-specific production of Edward Albee’s The Death of Bessie Smith, performed inside Interfaith Medical Center in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. New Brooklyn Theatre produced the show in order to highlight the threat of imminent closure that the hospital faced and to provoke a citywide conversation about health, race, and class.
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AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLEIn June New Brooklyn Theatre staged a site-specific production of Henrik Ibsen’s classic play An Enemy of the People near the site of the chemical spill. An Enemy of the People is about a man who discovers evidence that a local business has been unknowingly polluting the town’s hot springs, the town’s main source of revenue and jobs.
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VIŞNE BAHÇESI (THE CHERRY ORCHARD)Immediately following the first round of voting in Turkey’s 2014 presidential election, New Brooklyn Theatre, in association with Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, staged a site-specific production of a
new adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard in Turkish in Istanbul. |
READ REVIVE RECLAIMIn June 2014 New Brooklyn Theatre launched a monthly series of readings of historic but seldom seen plays by African-American playwrights. The series began with the oldest surviving play written by an African-American playwright and moved forward chronologically from the Antebellum period through the Harlem Renaissance.
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