Past

Productions

2017 \ 2018

The Mineola Twins by Paula Vogel

Cutting Ball Variety Pack

  • Directors Series: an evening of 4 short plays:
  • Ode by Daria Kaufman
  • Proben im Haus by Paige Rogers and Leighton Fong
  • Iago: Images Unseen by Jonathan Vandenberg
  • Pezzetti 2 by Beatrice Basso and Valentina Emeri
  • Playwrights Series:
  • THUNDERBODIES: a reading of a new play by Kate Tarker
  • Complex (KOM-pleks): a reading of a new play by Alexa Derman
  • Reading Series:
  • A reading of The Marriage of Figaro, discussion led by Rob Melrose
  • A reading of Ritter, Dene, Voss, discussion led by Paige Rogers
  • A reading of Natasha's Dream, discussion led by Paige Rogers
  • A reading of The Book of Grace, discussion led by Rob Melrose

Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare

2016 \ 2017

Avant GardARAMA!

  • The Wasps by Guy Zimmerman
  • An Evening with Activists by Yussef El Guindi
  • Lorca al vacío by Maria Velasco
  • Pezzetti by Beatrice by Basso and Valentina Emeri
  • Crooked and Dangerous by Katerina Wong
  • Whatever Self: Virginia Woolf & Virginia Woolf by Susan Terris
  • Inkwell by Isaac Schott-Rosenfield

Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

Phèdre by Jean Racine

Readings

  • Phèdre by Jean Racine
  • Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekov
  • Timon of Athens by Shakespeare

2015 \ 2016

A Dreamplay by August Strindberg

Ondine by Katharine Sherman

Life is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Risk Is This…

  • all of what you love and none of what you hate by Phillip Howze
  • My Home is Where by Alex Johnson
  • Borealis by Bennett Fisher

The Hidden Classics Reading Series

  • Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
  • Phèdre by Jean Racine

2014 \ 2015

Mount Misery by Andrew Saito

Antigone by Sophocles

Superheroes by Sean San José

Risk Is This…

  • Who Is Heiner Muller or The End of History by Mark Jackson
  • Caught by Christopher Chen
  • nightcap by Katharine Sherman
  • whisper fish by Andrew Saito
  • Beauty Secrets by Andrew Saito

The Hidden Classics Reading Series

  • Oresteia by Aeschylus
  • Life is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
  • A Murder of Crows by Mac Wellman
  • A Dream Play by Austin Strindberg
  • Hamletmachine by Heiner Mueller

2013 \ 2014

Sidewinders by Basil Kreimendahl

Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry

Communiqué n° 10 by Samuel Gallet

Risk Is This…

  • Stegosaurus by Andrew Saito
  • Ondine by Katherine Sherman
  • Mt. Misery by Andrew Saito
  • WINK by Jen Silverman
  • Ex Machina by David Jacobi

The Hidden Classics Reading Series

  • The Natural Relations and other plays by Qorpo Santo
  • Antigone by Sophocles
  • The Police by Slawomir Mrozek
  • The Balcony by Jean Genet
  • Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare
  • Rabinal Achi, an ancient Mayan play, translated by Dennis Tedlock

2012 \ 2013

Strindberg Cycle: The Chamber Plays in Rep by August Strindberg

The Chairs by Eugène Ionesco

Krispy Kritters In The Scarlett Night by Andrew Saito

Risk Is This…

  • Superheroes by Sean San José
  • Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry
  • Insect Play by Josef and Karl Capek
  • Passing by Dipika Guha
  • Sidewinders by Basil Kreimendahl

The Hidden Classics Reading Series

  • The Father by August Strindberg
  • The Increased Difficulty of Concentration by Václav Havel
  • Electra by Sophocles
  • The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
  • The Black Masks by Leonid Andreev

2011 \ 2012

Pelleas & Melisande by Maurice Maeterlinck

Tontlawald text by Eugenie Chan

Tenderloin by Annie Elias

  • with Tristan Cunningham, Siobhan Doherty, Rebecca Frank,
    Michael Kelly, Leigh Shaw, David Sinaiko and David Westley Skillman

Risk Is This…

  • Aulis: An Act of Nihilism in One Long Act by Christopher Chen
  • GIZMO by Anthony Clarvoe
  • The Ghost Sonata by August Strindberg
  • The Pelican and The Black Glove by August Strindberg
  • Storm and Burned House by August Strindberg

The Hidden Classics Reading Series

  • Play Strindberg by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
  • Camino Real by Tennessee Williams
  • Miss Julie and A Dream Play by August Strindberg
  • Easter by August Strindberg
  • The Stronger, Pariah, and Simoon by August Strindberg
  • The Keys to Heaven by August Strindberg

2010 \ 2011

The Tempest by William Shakespeare

Bone To Pick & Diadem by Eugenie Chan

Lady Grey (in ever lower light) and other plays by Will Eno

Risk Is This…

  • Tontlawald by Eugenie Chan
  • Krispy Kritters In The Scarlett Night by Andrew Saito
  • Madame Ho by Eugenie Chan
  • Ozma of Oz Adapted from the novel by L. Frank Baum, Rob Melrose (book and lyrics), Z.O.N.K. (music)
  • Tenderloin by Anne Elias

The Hidden Classics Reading Series

  • The Braggart Soldier by Plautus
  • Epicoene, or The Silent Woman by Ben Johnson
  • Andromache by Euripedes
  • The Insect Play by Josef and Karel Capek
  • The False Suitor by Marivaux

2009 \ 2010

The Bald Soprano by Eugène Ionesco

…and Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi by Marcus Gardley

Krapp’s Last Tape by Samuel Beckett

The Hidden Classics Reading Series

  • The Knights by by Aristophanes
  • Troilus And Cressida by William Shakespeare
  • Medea Vs. Medea Euripides vs. Seneca
  • Women Beware Women by Thomas Middleton
  • Storm by August Strindberg
  • The Antiquarian's Family by Carlo Goldoni

2008 \ 2009

Victims of Duty by Eugène Ionesco

Mud by Maria Irene Fornes

Thom Pain (based on nothing) by Will Eno

Krapp’s Last Tape by Samuel Beckett

Open Process

  • Pelléas and Mélisande by Maurice Maeterlinck in a new translation by Rob Melrose

The Hidden Classics Reading Series

  • The Pelican by August Strindberg in a new translation by Paul Walsh
  • Magnetism of the Heart by Aleksander Fredro
  • Helen by Euripides

2007 \ 2008

Endgame by Samuel Beckett

Avant GardARAMA! 2008: An Evening of Short Experimental Plays

  • Accents in Alsace by Gertrude Stein
  • Betting on the Dust Commander by Suzan-Lori Parks
  • Bone to Pick by Eugenie Chan (world premiere)

Risk is This…The Cutting Ball New Experimental Plays Festival

  • …and Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi by Marcus Gardley
  • Trojan Barbie by Christine Evans
  • Lighthouse by Brad Chequer

The Hidden Classics Reading Series

  • The Emperor of the Moon by Aphra Behn
  • Burned House by August Strindberg in a new translation by Paul Walsh
  • Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
  • Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights by Gertrude Stein
  • Pelléas and Mélisande by Maurice Maeterlinck in a new translation by Rob Melrose

2006 \ 2007

Risk Commissions

  • Mr. Fujiyama’s Electric Beach by Kevin Oakes
  • Bone to Pick by Eugenie Chan

365 Days / 365 Plays by Suzan-Lori Parks

Woyzeck by Georg Büchner in a new translation by Rob Melrose

The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

The Hidden Classics Reading Series

  • Danton’s Death by Georg Büchner
  • The Public by Federico García Lorca in a new adaptation by Caridad Svich
  • Quartet & The Task by Heiner Müller
  • Life is a Dream by Pedro Calderòn
  • It Is So (If You Think So) by Luigi Pirandello
  • The Black Glove by August Strindberg
  • Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry in a new translation by Rob Melrose

2005 \ 2006

The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World by Suzan-Lori Parks

The Maids by Jean Genet

Risk Is This… The Cutting Ball New Experimental Plays Festival

  • The Girl Triptych by Janet Allard
  • Alien Motel 29: The Secret Outtakes of The Ebony Lady Macbeth by Robert Alexander
  • the evolutionist’s club by Kevin Oakes

The Hidden Classics Reading Series

  • The Rover by Aphra Behn
  • The Ghost Sonata by August Strindberg in a new translation by Paul Walsh
  • Medea by Seneca
  • The Changeling by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley
  • Sphinx and Strawman & Murder Hope of Womankind by Oskar Kokoschka

2004 \ 2005

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre, in a new translation by Rob Melrose

Avant GardARAMA! 2004: An Evening of Short Experimental Plays

  • Fighter Airplanes from the notebooks of Richard Foreman
  • Ajax, for Instance by Heiner Müller translated by Carl Weber
  • Helen of Troy by Rob Melrose
  • Pickling by Suzan-Lori Parks
  • The Sandalwood Box by Mac Wellman

2003 \ 2004

The Vomit Talk of Ghosts by Kevin Oakes (world premiere)

Risk is This… The Cutting Ball New Experimental Plays Festival

  • Snakewoman an opera libretto by Eugenie Chan
  • Wet, or Isabella the Pirate Queen Enters the Horse Latitudes by Liz Duffy Adams
  • Infestation by Payne Ratner

2002 \ 2003

Roberto Zucco by Bernard-Marie Koltès

Risk is This… The Cutting Ball New Experimental Plays Festival

  • Chain Reactions by Trevor Allen
  • The Bad Math Plays by Kevin Oakes
  • Begging the Eclipse by Caridad Svich

2001 \ 2002

Drowning Room installation by Jeff Becker, directed by Rob Melrose, text by Kevin Oakes

As You Like It by William Shakespeare

2000 \ 2001

The End of the World as We Know It:
A Double Bill of Apocalyptic Plays

  • Vladimir Mayakovsky: A Tragedy by Vladimir Mayakovsky
  • Hamletmachine by Heiner Müller

Staged Readings

  • The High Priest of Bad Math by Kevin Oakes
  • Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare

1999 \ 2000

My Head Was a Sledgehammer by Richard Foreman