Buran Theatre Announces Casting for Two-City Tour of MAMMOTH

After a critically acclaimed 3-week run at The Brick in Brooklyn, Buran Theatre will bring their evocative and surreal meditation on love and destruction to Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica (November 20-21) and Tricklock Performance Space in Albuquerque, NM (December 11-12).

Composed in gulfs of glacial silence, two mammoth tusk hunters navigate modern romance in a landscape irrevocably altered by their presence. Re-cast and re-made in each locale, this poetic and comedic "paleo-fable" meditates upon why we destroy what we love and, once vanished, what compels us to revive what we've lost.

The production in both cities will be helmed by playwright/co-director Adam R. Burnett & codirector Anne Cecelia Haney.

Santa Monica cast will include Sasha Ali, Laurel Butler, Megan Branch, Lara Thomas Ducey, Lise Hart, Smaranda Luna, Lise Maley, and Elisa Noemi. MAMMOTH will run Friday, November 20th & Saturday, November 21st at 8:30 pm at Highways Performance Space (1651 18th St, Santa Monica, CA 90404). Tickets are $20 and can be purchased by visiting highwaysperformance.org or call 310-315-1459. Parking lot & street parking available.

Albuquerque cast will include Barbara Geary, Juli Hendren, Donna Jewell, Marya Jones, Elsa Menendez, lisa nevada, Lauren Poole, and Rachael Shapiro MAMMOTH will run Friday, December 11 and Saturday December 12 at 7:30 pm at Tricklock Performance Lab (110 Gold SW, 87102). Tickets are $15 and will be on sale December 1 via burantheatre.com

Buran Theatre is an award-winning ensemble of disparate multidisciplinary and intergenerational artists who joyfully and anarchically reconfigure narrative, form, production, gender, and genre to develop ambitious theatre productions. Our work embraces the absurd, the chaotic, the unknown, the impossible and the surreal with prism-like narrative complexity. We have revived a Marx Brothers show that never existed (Money Buckets!), carried a steamship up and over a mountain (The House of Fitzcarraldo), investigated the sublime and the "singularity" with our iPhones (Nightmares: A Demonstration of the Sublime), tackled America's health care system to the floor in a madcap music/dance/theater/fruit smoothie explosion, (Magic Bullets), and revived lovelorn wooly mammoths (Mammoth: A De-Extinction Love Story).