The Civilians (Steven Cosson, Artistic Director), the award-winning Brooklyn-based theatre company known for projects investigating real life topics, presents Let Me Ascertain You: Atlantic Yards, part of an ongoing series of cabaret performance at Joe's Pub. The September 10th performance at 9:30 PM is dedicated to The Civilians' multi-year investigation into the controversial Atlantic Yards development project and will include highlights from the previously announced In the Footprint coming in November.
Civilians' artists will perform songs by Associate Artist Michael Friedman (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson) and monologues taken from interviews with Brooklyn residents, community activists, and politicians, including Marty Markowitz, Bertha Lewis, Daniel Goldstein, Jonathan Lethem and LetiTia James. Using material gathered for the company's critically-acclaimed presentation of in 2008, along with new interviews about the most current events, Let Me Ascertain You: Atlantic Yards explores the many voices of an urban community facing industrial-sized growing pains.
Performers: Emily Ackerman, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Aysan Celik, Rosalyn Coleman, Billy EuGene Jones, Jennifer R. Morris, Monica Risi, Joaquin Torres, Colleen Werthmann, and Sam Breslin Wright.
In the Footprint will premiere at the Irondale Center in Fort Greene from November 12th - December 11th. The full creative team and casting to be announced.
Let Me Ascertain You: Atlantic Yards, September 10th, 2010 at 9:30 PM
Joe's Pub at The Public Theater at 425 Lafayette St.
TICKETS
Online at joespub.com,
Phone 212-967-7555,
In Person At The Public Theater Box Office (1 PM to 6 PM), or at the Joe's Pub Box Office from (6 PM to 10 PM) both located at 425 Lafayette Street, NYC
For table reservations please call 212-539-8778. Purchase of tickets does NOT guarantee a table reservation; you must call to reserve seats. Seating, as well as standing-room, is available only on a first-come, first-served basis for all shows without a dinner reservation. Two drink or $12 food minimum per person is standard.
Founded in 2001 by Steven Cosson, The Civilians has created twelve original works that have been produced Off Broadway and in over 40 cities nationally and internationally, at theaters such as The Public Theater, Center Theatre Group, La Jolla Playhouse, A.R.T., HBO's US Comedy Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival, London's Soho Theatre, and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (Fringe First Award, 2006). The company's recent work, This Beautiful City enjoyed a critically-acclaimed Off-Broadway run at the Vineyard Theater in 2009 receiving Lucille Lortel, Drama League and Drama Desk nominations. Gone Missing ran for seven months at Off-Broadway's Barrow Street Theater and was cited by The New York Times as one of the "10 Best Plays of 2007." The Civilians received an Obie in 2004 in recognition of its accomplishments in its first two seasons of work.
