Yale Rep Announces 2018-19 NO BOUNDARIES Series

Yale Repertory Theatre (James Bundy, Artistic Director; Victoria Nolan, Managing Director) will present WET: A DACAmented Journey written and performed by Alex Alpharaoh; and What Remains with direction and choreography by Will Rawls, text by Claudia Rankine as part of its annual NO BOUNDARIES performance series.

WET: A DACAmented Journey
Written and Performed by Alex Alpharaoh

December 13-15, 2018, 8PM
Iseman Theater (1156 Chapel Street)

WET: A DACAmented Journey uncovers the story of what it means to be an American in every sense of the word-except on paper. Chronicling Anner Cividanis's life as an undocumented American in Los Angeles, WET examines the emotional and psychological hardship one man endures while navigating a broken U.S. Immigration System to secure his livelihood in the only home knows.

WET: A DACAmented Journey runs approximately 90 minutes and is performed without intermission.

TALK BACKS will be held immediately following each performance.

What Remains
Direction and choreography by Will Rawls
Text by Claudia Rankine

February 14-16, 2019, 8PM
Iseman Theater (1156 Chapel Street)

Bessie Award-winning choreographer Will Rawls and best-selling poet and MacArthur "Genius" Fellow Claudia Rankine team up for a unique live performance. Layered with poetry, dance, and music, What Remains exposes society's role in the disturbance and murder of its black citizens and responds with a resonant, ghostly chorus.

The production, produced by Live Arts Bard, features production design by David Szlasa, costume design by Eleanor O'Connell, and sound design by Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste. John Lucas serves as creative consultant. It was created in collaboration with and is performed by Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, Leslie Cuyjet, Jessica Pretty, and Tara Aisha Willis.

What Remains was commissioned and developed by Live Arts Bard at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, where it received its world premiere in April, 2017, with additional commissioning support from the American Repertory Theater, Yale Repertory Theatre, and the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF)'s Crossing the Line Festival.


What Remains runs approximately 60 minutes and is performed without intermission.

TALK BACKS will be held immediately following each performance.

Tickets for the NO BOUNDARIES Series are $50-70 and are available online at yalerep.org, by phone (203) 432-1234, and in person at the Yale Rep Box Office (1120 Chapel Street). Student tickets are $25.

Please note: The Yale Rep Box Office will be closed during Yale's Winter Recess, December 20-January 1. Online orders only will be available during this time.

Yale Repertory Theatre, the internationally celebrated professional theatre in residence at Yale School of Drama, has championed new work since 1966, producing well over 100 premieres-including two Pulitzer Prize winners and four other nominated finalists-by emerging and established playwrights. Seventeen Yale Rep productions have advanced to Broadway, garnering more than 40 Tony Award nominations and ten Tony Awards. Yale Rep is also the recipient of the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre.

Established in 2008, Yale's Binger Center for New Theatre has distinguished itself as one of the nation's most robust and innovative new play programs. To date, the Binger Center has supported the work of more than 50 commissioned artists and underwritten the world premieres and subsequent productions of 31 new American plays and musicals at Yale Rep and theatres across the country-including this season's El Huracán by Charise Castro Smith, The Prisoner by Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne, Good Faith by Karen Hartman, and Cadillac Crew by Tori Sampson.

Yale Rep's NO BOUNDARIES series explores the frontiers of theatrical invention through cutting-edge and thought-provoking performance from around the world. NO BOUNDARIES has introduced Yale Rep audiences to an astonishing array of performances-including theatre, dance, music, and multimedia-from the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Poland, Peru, Colombia, Spain, Germany, Japan, Israel, Georgia, East Africa, West Africa, and right here in the U.S