HORSE HEAD 2017 SEASON
CHURCH by Young Jean Lee
Houston Premiere Sponsored by The Heritage Society
Featuring an original immersive pre-show experience
Directed by Jacey Little
August 4 - 20, 2017
Pre-show begins at 7:30pm, CHURCH begins at 8pm
1891 St. John Church, The Heritage Society at Sam Houston Park, 1100 Bagby St., Houston, TX 77002
Houston Premiere Sponsored by The Heritage Society
Featuring an original immersive pre-show experience
Directed by Jacey Little
August 4 - 20, 2017
Pre-show begins at 7:30pm, CHURCH begins at 8pm
1891 St. John Church, The Heritage Society at Sam Houston Park, 1100 Bagby St., Houston, TX 77002
An exuberant sermon delivered by an eccentric, traveling congregation of reverends, CHURCH provokes and delights audiences with song, dance and testimony. Testing the expectations of the religious and non-religious alike, CHURCH aims to recharge one’s concept of self.
The theatrical performance CHURCH will be presented inside of The Heritage Society’s historic and beautifully preserved 1891 St. John Church. The Heritage Society is located in Sam Houston Park, nestled in the downtown skyline at Allen Parkway and Bagby. Before and after the performance, the surrounding park grounds will be populated by actors and hands-on activities, offering audiences an optional, immersive experience.
The theatrical performance CHURCH will be presented inside of The Heritage Society’s historic and beautifully preserved 1891 St. John Church. The Heritage Society is located in Sam Houston Park, nestled in the downtown skyline at Allen Parkway and Bagby. Before and after the performance, the surrounding park grounds will be populated by actors and hands-on activities, offering audiences an optional, immersive experience.
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“[Lee’s] slyly subversive drama ambushes its audience with an earnest and surprisingly moving Christian church service that might be the most unlikely provocation produced in years…the point here is not to convert so much as to confront. Ms. Lee has a talent for evocative and sometimes grotesque imagery, and on the attack she is at the height of her powers.” —The New York Times
“…Lee’s writing displays her customary surgical precision and menace, a rhetorically supple mix of invective and goofiness. And while she uses parable and drops the odd Biblical phrase…she seems more intent on roasting her audience’s secular complacency than blaspheming or exposing the machinery of belief…”— Time Out (New York) |
“Church” is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, LLC.
This project is generously sponsored by The Heritage Society, Buffalo Bayou Brewery and Frost Bank.
This project is funded in part by the Houston Arts Alliance on behalf of City of Houston and has been recommended for funding by the National Endowment of the Arts, Arts Work grant program.
NEIGHBORS: A FAIR TRADE AGREEMENT by Bernardo Cubría
Staged Reading Co-presented by MECA (Multicultural Education and Counseling Through the Arts)
Monday September 18, 2017 @ 7:30pm
MECA, 1900 Kane St., Houston, TX 77007
Staged Reading Co-presented by MECA (Multicultural Education and Counseling Through the Arts)
Monday September 18, 2017 @ 7:30pm
MECA, 1900 Kane St., Houston, TX 77007
THE SONIC LIFE OF A GIANT TORTOISE: YOUTH IS NOT THE ONLY THING THAT’S SONIC by Toshiki Okada, translated by Aya Ogawa
Houston Premiere Presented by Horse Head Theatre Co.
Directed by Philip Hays
November 3 - 18, 2017
"NeNo" or Near Northside Studios, 1506 Lorraine St., Houston, TX 77009
Houston Premiere Presented by Horse Head Theatre Co.
Directed by Philip Hays
November 3 - 18, 2017
"NeNo" or Near Northside Studios, 1506 Lorraine St., Houston, TX 77009
A dream-like folktale of modern life, THE SONIC LIFE OF A GIANT TORTOISE explores urbanites’ collective longing for the extraordinary. Like a Murakami story come to life, SONIC LIFE... feelingly navigates the complex threads of the mundane and surreal. Can our secret wishes lead us out of the boring day-to-day into a more meaningful existence?
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"These are the serious questions, and I, like the characters may be sleeping through them. In those moments, the play feels like a knife in the gut." - Time Out New York
"Maybe it's our fate to always wish for more, but Okada hits that something more is all around us, if only we could step outside ourselves and see." - The Village Voice "Toshiki Okada is the Thornton Wilder for the Google generation." - NY Theatre Now |
“The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise” is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.
PAST 2017 EVENTS
SENSITIVE GUYS by MJ Kaufman
Staged Reading Co-presented with AFTER (American Foundation for Transgender Excellence and Recognition)
Directed by Jacey Little
Monday June 5, 2017 @ 7:30pm
Rec Room, 100 Jackson St., Houston, TX 77002
Staged Reading Co-presented with AFTER (American Foundation for Transgender Excellence and Recognition)
Directed by Jacey Little
Monday June 5, 2017 @ 7:30pm
Rec Room, 100 Jackson St., Houston, TX 77002
The Men’s Peer Education group at Watson College is dedicated to unpacking and exposing male privilege. These “sensitive guys” believe that through increased self-awareness they can end sexual violence on campus; but when a shocking rumor surfaces, the group is shaken to the core.
SENSITIVE GUYS features a cast of women and gender nonconforming actors, double cast as male and female characters, who try to understand men who are trying to understand masculinity.
“Sensitive Guys” was Developed at InterAct Theatre and PlayPenn in 2016.
SENSITIVE GUYS features a cast of women and gender nonconforming actors, double cast as male and female characters, who try to understand men who are trying to understand masculinity.
“Sensitive Guys” was Developed at InterAct Theatre and PlayPenn in 2016.
