52nd Street Productions to Stage Teen Ensemble Production of TWELFTH NIGHT, 6/21-22
By: Tyler Peterson Jun. 14, 2013
The 52nd Street Project is a not-for-profit, community-based theater company that for the past thirty years has been bringing the kids of New York City's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood together with adult theater professionals to create original theater and to establish long-term mentoring relationships.
Next week, eleven teenagers from the Project's Teen Ensemble will perform an ensemble production of William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" at The 52nd Street Project's Five Angels Theater, at 789 10th Avenue, on Friday, June 21st at 7:30p.m and Saturday, June 22nd at 3:00 p.m.The Teen Ensemble is the final step in the Project's theater programming. This production is the culmination of a two-year theater program for eleven high school students between the ages of sixteen and eighteen, all of whom have been members of the 52nd Street Project since they were ten years old. After two years of movement, improvisation, voice, scene study, clown and Shakespeare work, these eleven teens are now concluding the second year of the program with a full production of "Twelfth Night," which they helped to adapt. Incorporating original music, "Twelfth Night" explores the pain of unrequited love amongst a motley crew of characters: all of them disguising something, all of them longing for love.Videos