Sara Farrington's LEISURE, LABOR, LUST To Play The Tank

The Tank (Meghan Finn and Rosalind Grush, Artistic Directors) will present the New York Premiere of LEISURE, LABOR, LUST, written and directed by Sara Farrington at The Tank (312 West 36th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues), March 28-April 22. Performances will be Thursdays through Sundays at 7:30pm Tickets ($25) are available for advance purchase at www.thetanknyc.org. Please note this play contains nudity. Not appropriate for children under 14.

Leisure, Labor, Lust is a three-part triptych presented in one evening. Inspired by the work of Edith Wharton and Jacob Riis, this queer love story spans turn-of-the-century New York from the horrors of mental illness to the paralysis of the immigrant to the impossibility of being closeted to a gothic romance. Leisure, Labor, Lust is a contemporary theater piece about everything America was and still is, cleverly disguised in a corset and gown.

The cast will feature Gabriella Rhodeen*, Stephanie Regina*, Christopher Tocco*, and Kyle Stockburger* with lighting design by Brian Aldous and sound design by Sam Schloegel. The production will be Stage Managed by Alex B. West*. *member AEA
This piece has been developed and presented at: Arthouse Productions, Jersey City, NJ (AD: Meredith Burns), The Mount, Edith Wharton's Estate, Lenox, MA (AD: Susan Wissler), HERE Arts SubletSeries (AD: Kim Whitner & Kristin Marting) and JACK, Brooklyn, NY (AD: Alec Duffy) with financial support from The Arch & Bruce Brown Foundation.

Sara Farrington (Playwright/Director) is an NY/NJ based playwright & director. MFA from Brooklyn College w/ Mac Wellman. She was a recent HARP Artist at HERE Arts Center from 2014-2017 to create CasablancaBox, a multi-media piece about the making of Casablanca. CasablancaBox was nominated for two Drama Desk Awards (Unique Theatrical Experience & Outstanding Projection Design). Sara is currently in residence at CityTech's TheatreWorks Program to build Brando, a facial motion-capture piece about the man and the Method, in collaboration with director Reid Farrington. Recent & upcoming plays include: Brando (TheatreWorks @ CityTech), Cosmicomics (The Flea), Leisure, Labor, Lust (The Mount in Lenox, MA & Arthouse, Jersey City), The Return (commissioned by/performed at The Metropolitan Museum of Art), Near Vicksburg (Incubator Arts Project, Walkerspace, Foxy Films, The Wild Project), Requiem For Black Marie (Incubator Arts, Foxy Films, Stella Adler Studios), Mickey & Sage (Incubator Arts, Foxy Films, Great Plains Theater Conference, NTI @ O'Neill Center, ShelterBelt Theater, Omaha, NE.) Sara's work has been supported by The Venturous Fund, MediaTHE, The New York State Council on the Arts, The Axe-Houghton Foundation and The Arch & Bruce Brown Foundation. She is a MacDowell Colony fellow, grad of Connecticut College and NTI @ The Eugene O'Neill Center, a Wooster Group intern and was an acting company member at the late great Jean Cocteau Rep. Her play Mickey & Sage is published by Broadway Play Publishing, Inc. Sara is an avid reader, runner and history lover. She and husband Reid Farrington live in Maplewood, NJ and have two little boys, Jack & Levi. For more, www.ladyfarrington.com

The Tank is a non-profit arts presenter serving emerging artists engaged in the pursuit of new ideas and forms of expression. We serve over 1,000 artists every year in over 400 performances, and work across all disciplines, including theater, comedy, dance, film, music, public affairs, and storytelling. Our goal is to foster an environment of inclusiveness and remove the burden of cost from the creation of new work for artists launching their careers and experimenting within their art form. The heart of our services is providing free performance space in our 98 seat proscenium and 56 seat blackbox that we operate in Manhattan, and we also offer a suite of other services such as free rehearsal space, promotional support, artist fees, and much more. We keep ticket prices affordable and view our work as democratic, opening up both the creation and attendance of the arts to all.

Leisure, Labor, Lust is a fully produced coproduction with The Tank. Past Tank produced-work includes Drama Desk-nominated productions Ada/Ava (2016), youarenowhere (2016), The Paper Hat Game (2017), and the ephemera trilogy (2017), as well as New York Times Critics' Pick The Offending Gesture by Mac Wellman, directed by Meghan Finn (2016). Since its founding in 2003, artists who have come through The Tank include Alex Timbers, Amy Herzog, Lucy Alibar, Mike Daisey, Reggie Watts, Kyle Abraham, Andrew Bujalski, We Are Scientists, and tens of thousands of others. www.thetanknyc.org

Photo: Gabriella Rhodeen at Edith Warton's Estate, The Mount

Photo credit: Rob Strong

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