The more Maddy works to supplant her painful memories, the further away from her body—represented by a character called Dancer—she gets. Hanes’s comedy may thrive on his manic depression and crippling self-awareness, but his body—a Chaplin-esque sad clown—gets a kick out of punishing him for it. The Misanthrope is about the desire for and pain of cultivating intimacy with another person when you can’t live with the body that you’re in. This riff on Molière’s concept of a misanthrope is an anti-classic, anti-romantic love story that finds kinship with the music of The Velvet Underground and melancholic, East Village-born punk.
Co-Produced by Cheers to 40 and White Horse Theater Company, this production is a part of SubletSeries: Co-Op, HERE’s curated rental program, which provides artists with subsidized space and equipment, as well as a technical liaison.
Performance Schedule:
WEDNESDAY-FRIDAY @ 8:30 PM
SATURDAY @ 4 PM & 8:30 PM
Director
Nadiya Atkinson
Written by
Olivia Hunt