Gorilla Rep to Train This Summer for Potential A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM Production in Space

By: Mar. 26, 2013
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Always on the cutting edge of theatrical production, Gorilla Rep is literally taking flight this year. The company, according to Founder and Artistic Director, Christopher Carter Sanderson, will be headed into the great beyond of outer space in its future, and training for that mission this summer with a zero-g flight at a training facility in Oldsmar, Florida.

Long known for its famous, long-running production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in Washington Square and Central Parks, Gorilla Rep is hoping to break the barriers of space by performing the Bard's play for the International Space Station within a "space theater" specially designed by Sanderson.

"Gorilla Rep will be the first theatrical company to meld 21st Century space technology with the Arts by placing an actor in a zero-gravity flight simulation for this new production" commentEd Sanderson.

In preparation, Gorilla Rep is fundraising for a return of its famous production of A Midsummer Night's Dream to Washington Square Park.

A workshop production of Hamlet, Gorilla Rep's third production and Sanderson's fourth, with an all-new Burlesque concept is also on the works for Summer 2013.

In addition, Robert Steven Ackerman will join Gorilla Rep as its new Leah Ryan Memorial Playwright In Residence. Ackerman, who penned the company's Joan of Arc in Ft. Tryon Park, is writing a new outdoor adaptation of a classic play for immediate workshop. The troupe will present his new play Problem Parents during the 2014-15 season and has plans to support new works of his through 2016.

Incorporated in 1992, Gorilla Repertory Theatre Company, Inc., provides the highest quality productions of classical dramatic material, free of charge, to New York City audiences. Founded by Christopher Carter Sanderson, a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, Gorilla Repertory has produced over 70 plays since its inception. The book about Gorilla Rep, Gorilla Theatre (Routledge, 2003), is recommended by the teachers and practitioners of the International Baccalaureate Organization.



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