Buran Theatre's NIGHTMARES Launches National Tour Today

Buran Theatre will tour their original theatre work NIGHTMARES: a demonstration of the Sublime throughout the U.S. in May-July, 2013. The production recently played to sold-out houses and critical acclaim at The Brick in Brooklyn, NY.

The piece situates itself between terror and comedy (the sublime), beneath the gaze of Henry Fuseli's iconic painting, and in the midst of an enveloping soundscape to plumb the extremities of our contemporary condition and posit the question: are we still capable of being overwhelmed? Initiating at the birth of the modern sublime-the summer of 1816, when literary heavyweights Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Jon Polidori convened on Lake Geneva to create their literary shapeshifters, namely Frankenstein's Monster and the Vampyr-the performance takes on the overwhelming anxiety of confronting nature and ourselves in the 21st century, an era that seemingly reaches for zeros.

The play will perform in the following cities and venues:
William Inge Theater; Lawrence, KS (May 24-25)
Tricklock Performance Laboratory; Albuquerque, NM (June 7-8)
Venue TBA; Las Vegas, NV (June 21-22)
Studio/Stage Theater; Los Angeles (July 5-6)

Local performers will be cast in each city, working under artistic directors Adam R. Burnett and Jud Knudsen's immersive performance style. Burnett and Knudsen will also offer workshops to high school and college age students on experimental and devised theatre practices.

Buran Theatre is a collection of disparate artists creating new works, led by writer/director Adam R. Burnett and performer Jud Knudsen. Buran is committed to making new performances works, collaborating with various mediums to create inclusive and highly theatrical productions that investigate narrative structures that involve the audience before and after the performance. Past works include The House of Fitzcarraldo (U.S. tour 2012), Money Buckets (Metropolitan Ensemble Theater, Kansas City), Meile be Akcento (Vilnius Chamber Theater; Vilnius, Lithuania), American Mythology, Vol. 1 (Studio/Stage Theater; Los Angeles), and The Cotton Plantation (The X Theater; Albuquerque).

For more information on Buran Theatre, visit burantheatre.com.

Photo Credit: Nick Kostner

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