The Assembly Presents the World Premiere of HOME/SICK, 7/6-30

Following the critical acclaim of their most recent productions: Three Sisters (The Cherry Pit), The Dark Heart of Meteorology, (Horse Trade Theatre) and Clementine and the Cyber Ducks (Incubator Arts), The Assembly will present the world premiere of home/sick, an ensemble-devised piece of political theater that explores the history of the 1960s radical group, The Weather Underground.

Disgusted by the Vietnam War and the government's repression of those seeking equality domestically, a handful of leaders from the 1960s student movement seized control of Students for a Democratic Society and reshaped it in the name of overthrowing the United States government. Believing violence to be the only means to a true and lasting peace, these passionate idealists accelerated a movement to its fervor, but left a country behind.

The Assembly is presenting home/sick as part of their Make Your Own City Arts Festival, which will feature late night concerts, visual art installations, readings and works by other young artists and companies including: Waterwell (Goodbar-- directed by Arian Moayed, #9, The King Operetta), Shelby Company (The Land Whale Murders), and Matt Roi Berger (Spidermusical, Fat Camp). The Festival will also include lectures and talk-backs with theatrical and political academics. home/sick and the Make Your Own City Festival will run at the Collapsable Hole in Williamsburg from July 6th-July 30th.

Tickets are $18, available at brownpapertickets.com

THE ASSEMBLY THEATER PROJECT (theassemblytheater.com) is a collective of multi-disciplinary performance artists committed to realizing a visceral and intelligent theater for a new generation. Assembly members unite our varied interests in service of wide-reaching, unabashedly theatrical and rigorously researched ensemble performances that address the complexities of our ever-changing world. The company embraces collaboration as the core of the creative process, allowing all the elements of text, action and design to develop side-by-side within the rehearsal environment. The Assembly is dedicated to rooting its artists, audiences, and peers in a profound sense of community. Their productions include their immersive Three Sisters, which transferred to The Cherry Pit following a sold-out run at The Red Room, Stephen Aubrey's The Dark Heart of Meteorology (Under St. Marks), Krista Knight's Clementine and the Cyber Ducks (The Incubator Arts Center), What I Took In My Hand (The Brick), Daguerreotype (The Abingdon), and We Can't Reach You, Hartford (Edinburgh Fringe Festival).

 

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