Horse Head Theatre Co. Announces 2018 Season

Horse Head Theatre Co. (HH) is proud to announce our 9th season of Houston premieres, featuring new works that focus on character relationships, female protagonists and musically-charged stories.

Kicking off the 2018 Season, HH will offer a free staged reading of EVOCATION TO VISIBLE APPEARANCE by Mark Schultz at Chelsea Market Theater (home of Classical Theatre Company) on Saturday, July 21, 2018 at 8pm. Schultz's dark wit and rich characters have established him as a Houston favorit e (author of The Blackest Shore and Everything Will Be Different: A Brief History of Helen of Troy ). This year, Horse Head is proud to bring you his newest play. Schultz sets this show on a bold, strange premise: "...what would it be to write a play that wasn't about the Devil, but somehow was the Devil?" Curious what that means? Let Horse Head show you this July.

From August 17 - September 1, 2018, Horse Head will present WE'RE GONNA DIE by Young Jean Lee at nine unique, Houston concert venues. Catch the show at your favorite music spot, including Fitzgerald's Houston, Grand Prize Bar and many more. S omewhere in between a play and a concert, WE'RE GONNA DIE is a collection of real-life stories about tragedy, isolation and mortality, expertly paired with unique life-affirming songs about the one thing we all have in common: WE'RE GONNA DIE .

HH Artist Director Jacey Little will direct in league with Musical Director Alli Villines ( Houston Grand Opera, Alley Theatre, 2018 Tamarie Cooper Show). "I first worked with Alli on Young Jean Lee's Church last season," reflects Little. "I was mesmerized by her angelic voice and fell madly in love with her prized ukulele, Hildegard." Villines is WE'RE GONNA DIE 's only "actor." Departing from Young Jean Lee's original production (2011-2015), Horse Head's presentation will feature new arrangements by Villines, including her trusty ukulele, stand-up bass, and percussion.

This October, Horse Head will present a free staged reading of ADVANCE MAN by Abe Koogler. Never before produced in Houston, Koogler is a daring up-and-coming author; his newest work, The Fulfillment Center, debuted at Manhattan Theatre Club in June 2017. ADVANCE MAN was developed at UT-Austin in 2014 but like with many bold new works, it's lain dormant. HH Artistic Director Jacey Little thinks she knows why: "This is due to our current political climate. Americans are sick of politics." However, Little thinks this play is different. "Koogler has managed to write a beautiful play 'about' politics that is not topical. I think audiences will find this production refreshing, relevant and deeply personal."

Closing out 2018, Horse Head will present the Houston premiere of Annie Baker's Pulitzer Prize winning play, THE FLICK . With HH flair, we'll return to the historic Houston Warehouse Studio (2017 SONIC LIFE venue), to tell this character-driven story: In a run-down movie theater on the brink of folding, three underpaid employees mop the floors and attend to one of the last 35 millimeter film projectors in the state. Their tiny battles and not-so-tiny heartbreaks play out in the empty aisles, becoming more gripping than the lackluster, second-run movies on screen. With keen insight and a finely-tuned comic eye, THE FLICK is a hilarious and heart-rending cry for authenticity in a fast-changing world.

Horse Head is a participant in the Houston Arts Alliance CBI Resident Incubator Program and is funded in part by the Houston Arts Alliance on behalf of City of Houston.

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