This nationally-acclaimed residency uses Romeo and Juliet, its characters, and its many pivotal decision moments as tools for Freshman students to imagine and rehearse life-saving choices in the face of armed violence, peer pressure, prejudice, and inadequate guidance. Working in concert with educators, TSC Teaching-Artists (TA’s) interweave these strategically-placed sessions, creating a positive and enthusiastic […]
by René-Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt translated by Daniel Gerould directed by Jessica Silsby Brater “If cheesy haunted houses and Halloween horror aren’t your thing, this production of a newly translated 1829 French melodrama is artistically ambitious and intellectually and emotionally engaging, as well as providing seasonally appropriate, good gruesome fun (there is comedy to be […]
About the Show In the winter of 1779, a woman named Elizabeth Burgin defied New York City’s British occupiers by helping hundreds of patriots escape from prison ships anchored offshore of what is now the Brooklyn Navy Yard. With a bounty on her head, she fled the city. A History of Launching Shipsjoins Burgin during her […]
The Art of Hijab, Kohl Black and the Right Way to Pray is inspired by YouTube beauty and hijab styling tutorials for the Muslim woman; shared stories of the Koran, Torah, and Christian Bible; and playwright Sarah Badiyah Sakaan’s culturally diverse upbringing in Memphis. Using multimedia, testimony, nonlinear narrative and cross-gender casting, Polybe + Seats examines […]
Syrian-American writer-actor Sarah Badiyah Sakaan offers a theatrical response to the ongoing crisis in Syria. Polybe + Seats artistic director Jessica Silsby Brater stages it site-specifically at a Bay Ridge hookah joint. In August, Polybe + Seats will produce a new play conceived by company member Sarah Badiyah Sakaan with artistic director Jessica Silsby Brater […]
The theater company Polybe + Seats is proud to announce its spring 2010 production of A THOUSAND THOUSAND SLIMY THINGS. Conceived and directed by Artistic Director Jessica Brater and written by Company Member Katya Schapiro with the company, the production will have a limited engagement of 9 performances only at the Waterfront Museum and Showboat […]