Heather Christian's ANIMAL WISDOM Extends Again at The Bushwick Starr

The Bushwick Starr and West Yorkshire Playhouse are presenting ANIMAL WISDOM, created by Heather Christian, directed by Mark Rosenblatt featuring and made in collaboration with Sasha Brown, Heather Christian, Fred Epstein, Eric Farber and Maya Sharpe.

The production has just announced an extension through December 9, 2017. (Please Note: *There will be no performances during Thanksgiving week, Nov. 20-26.)

The Bushwick Starr is thrilled to collaborate with West Yorkshire Playhouse in presenting the world premiere of Animal Wisdom, a new music-theater piece by Obie Award-winning composer and performer Heather Christian (The TEAM's Mission Drift & The World is Round, BAM), in collaboration with acclaimed artist/performer Andrew Schneider (YOUARENOWHERE- 2015 OBIE award, 2016 Drama Desk nom.), director Mark Rosenblatt (Associate Artist, West Yorkshire Playhouse), and her genre-defying group, the Arbornauts.

Heather talks to dead people, gets freaked out and writes music. Animal Wisdom is a lo-fi, idiosyncratic, folk-blues Requiem written from theoretical or actual (you decide) conversations with the dead performed alongside poorly remembered Methodist hymns from the 1800s, hyperbolized family mythologies, and community rituals of the ridiculous in the form of a gothic catholic mass- because how else can you address your soul? Animal Wisdom is a musical offering created by sinners and science nerds for believers and non-believers alike.

The Company: Heather Christian (Mission Drift, The World Is Round), Eric Farber (FUTURITY, Good Person of Szechwan), Fred Epstein (The Skin of Our Teeth, FUTURITY), Sasha Brown (Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds), Maya Sharpe (the TEAM's Anything That Gives Off Light, HAIR), Mark Rosenblatt (The Fruit Trilogy, Assoc. Artist of West Yorkshire Playhouse), Andrew Schneider (YOUARENOWHERE, DANCE/FIELD), Stowe Nelson (Small Mouth Sounds, The Wolves), and Heather McDevitt Barton (Salty Brine's Spectacular Living Record Collection).

book & lyrics - Heather Christian
director - Mark Rosenblatt
additional staging - Emilyn Kowaleski
guitar & vocals - Sasha Brown
keys & vocals - Heather Christian
bass & vocals - Fred Epstein
percussion & vocals - Eric Farber
violin, banjo & vocals - Maya Sharpe
lighting design & art direction - Andrew Schneider
scenic design - Eric Farber & Andrew Schneider
sound design - Stowe Nelson
costume design - Heather McDevitt Barton
orchestration - Sasha Brown, Heather Christian, Fred Epstein, Eric Farber & Maya Sharpe

The development of Animal Wisdom was undertaken as part of the Transform Festival at West Yorkshire Playhouse in Summer 2015 and a Bushwick Starr artist residency in Summer 2017.

Tickets available at www.thebushwickstarr.org. The Bushwick Starr theater is located at 207 Starr Street, Brooklyn, NY [between Irving and Wyckoff].

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