DESCRIBE THE NIGHT
By Rajiv Joseph
Directed by Celeste Cosentino
CLEVELAND Premiere.
October 28 - November 13, 2022
In 1920, the Russian writer Isaac Babel wanders the countryside with the Red Cavalry. Seventy years later, a mysterious KGB agent spies on a woman in Dresden and falls in love. In 2010, an aircraft carrying most of the Polish government crashes in the Russian city of Smolensk. Set in Russia over the course of ninety years, this thrilling and epic play traces the stories of eight men and women connected by history, myth, and conspiracy theories.
…DESCRIBE THE NIGHT is much more than an engrossing tall tale, however: It heroically wrestles with the slippery nature of truth itself, and unnervingly demonstrates why its alternatives are so seductive.” —TheaterMania.com.
THE RIVER
By Jez Butterworth
Directed by Ian Wolfgang Hinz
CLEVELAND Premiere.
February 17-March 5, 2023
On a moonless night in August when the sea trout are ready to run, a man brings his new girlfriend to the remote family cabin where he has come for the fly-fishing since he was a boy. But she's not the only woman he has brought here – or indeed the last. A bewitching story from the author of global smash hit Jerusalem, Jez Butterworth's play The River was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in October 2012.
'Bewitchingly strange - watery and wild but deftly crafted' -Evening Standard
THE LIGHT
By Loy A. Webb
Directed by Jeannine Gaskin
CLEVELAND Premiere.
May 26-June 11, 2023
A surprise proposal gift puts the future of Genesis and Rashad's relationship at risk when they are forced to confront a devastating secret from the past. The Light is a 70-minute, real-time rollercoaster ride of laughter, romance, and despair that uncovers how the power of radical love can be a healing beacon of light.
What is impressive about the writing is how Webb keeps intensifying both the stakes and seriousness of the relationship even as she builds the threat of that which is tearing it apart." - Chicago Tribune
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-THE RETURN OF ENSEMBLE'S COLOMBI NEW PLAY FESTIVAL.
-THE THIRD EPISODE OF ENSEMBLE'S CO-PRODUCTION IN OUR OUR WORDS: OUR STORIES :OUR VOICES SERIES.
-STAGED READINGS OF NEW WORKS THROUGHOUT THE SEASON FROM ENSEMBLE'S STAGEWRIGHTS UNIT AND LOCAL WRITERS!
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