The Assembly's THAT POOR DREAM Opens at The Tank Tonight

The Tank, a non-profit arts presenter located in the heart of midtown, is proud to present The Assembly's That Poor Dream, a new play set on a train traveling from New York City to Fairfield, CT. Following a successful run at The New Ohio Theatre in the fall of 2014, the company has continued development work on the piece and will be performing an updated version. Inspired by Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, the work unites worlds divided by geography, privilege, and time. Drawing on the company's own complex relationship to class identity and economic disparity in American society, The Assembly's newest creation explores how class defines and separates us, and how our shared humanity might bring us closer together.

Presented on January 9 at 4pm and 7pm; January 10 at 7pm and 10pm; January 11 at 3pm and 9pm. At The Tank, 151 West 46th Street, 8th Floor, Manhattan.

Tickets are available at: http://thetanknyc.org/theater/245-that-poor-dream/

Written and devised collectively by The Assembly and the cast
Directed by Jess Chayes

Authors: Stephen Aubrey, Edward Bauer, Ben Beckley, Nick Benacerraf, Ray Campbell, Jess Chayes, Drew Hildebrand, Jocelyn Kuritsky, Moti Margolin, Eric John Meyer, Emily Louise Perkins, Terrell Wheeler

Performers: Edward Bauer, Ray Campbell, Drew Hildebrand, Jocelyn Kuritsky, Moti Margolin, Emily Louise Perkins, Terrell Wheeler

Designers: Nick Benacerraf (concept & scenery), Kate Fry (costumes), Ray Sun (video), Ben Truppin-Brown & Asa Wember (sound), Derek Wright (lights)

That Poor Dream was developed, in part, at Ice Factory 2013, a program of New Ohio Theatre.

The Assembly is a collective of multi-disciplinary performance artists committed to realizing a visceral and intelligent theater for a new generation. Assembly members unite our varied interests in service of wide-reaching, unabashedly theatrical and rigorously researched ensemble performances that address the complexities of our ever-changing world. The company embraces collaboration as the core of the creative process, allowing all the elements of text, action and design to develop side-by-side within the rehearsal environment. The Assembly is dedicated to rooting its artists, audiences, and peers in a profound sense of community.

That Poor Dream is presented as part of Flint & Tinder, The Tank's flagship theater series of exciting new independent theater presented in the heart of Manhattan's theater district. The series showcases ferociously imaginative emerging artists making work that spans (and often flagrantly combines) physical theater, puppetry, dance, clowning, and more. They are storytellers, relentless risk-takers, and theatrical alchemists shaping the future of the medium. Flint & Tinder is curated by Josh Luxenberg and Jon Levin of Sinking Ship Productions, and produced and co-curated by Rosalind Grush of The Tank.

The Tank is a Manhattan-based non-profit arts presenter. We serve emerging and established artists engaged in the pursuit of new ideas and forms of expression. Our goal is to foster an environment of inclusiveness and remove the burden of cost from the creation of new work for artists launching their careers and experimenting within their art form. The heart of our services is providing free performance space in the 62-seat blackbox that we operate in Manhattan, and we also offer a suite of other resources such as free rehearsal space and promotional support. We present performances across a range of disciplines: theater, music, dance, comedy, film, and storytelling. Founded in 2003 by nine emerging artists, The Tank has since provided an artistic home for tens of thousands of New York City-based performers. Artists who have presented work at The Tank early on in their careers include Alex Timbers (Tony-nominated theater director), Amy Herzog (Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright), Lucy Alibar (whose one-act play Juicy and Delicious premiered at The Tank and was adapted to be the Oscar-nominated Beasts of the Southern Wild), Andrew Bujalski (film director, Computer Chess), and We Are Scientists (rock band). The Tank has been honored with an official City Council proclamation, chosen for the WNYC *STAR* initiative, and featured on CNN, BBC, ABC World News Now, the New York Times, and more.

For more information about Flint & Tinder, please visit http://thetanknyc.org/series/flint_and_tinder/. For more information about The Tank, please visit www.thetanknyc.org.