The
Drilling Company's
2016 - our 22nd Season Second season in the new Parking Lot at Clemente Soto Velez
JULY
7 TO 23
Curtiss
sees Shakespeare’s “Dream” as a journey into the mysteries
of the subsconscious mind, richly symbolic of the process of how we
recognize who we are and whom we love. To reveal this in modern terms,
she employs the "heightened" class system of the Lower East
Side/East Village--stereotypes of some of the populations abounding
there--to represent in modern terms the groups of characters in the
play. MORE INFO
JULY
28 TO AUGUST 13
To emphasize the plays' modern relevance, a contemporary setting has been chosen. Venice is re-imagined as the modern Lower East Side, where Yuppie speculators and fast-track financial magnates live and work along side a wide variety of Jewish businessmen. Belmont, where Portia lives, is like the Upper East Side. MORE INFO
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