Caliban
Photos by Michael Everett Crawford
On the Island of Caliban
Written by Nicelle Davis
Directed by A. M. Anthony M Sannazzaro
Featuring the Talents of:
Stage Directions/Sycorax: Allaire Koslo
Ariel: Jeffrey Gardner
Miranda: Lisa Blacker
Prospero: Andrew Blacker
Operating System: Melanie Jeffrey
Caliban 1: Fransico Cedeno
Caliban 2: Jonathan Janssen
Caliban 3: Beach
Caliban 4: Cynthia Johnson/
Camille Willette
Caliban 5: Nyssa Newman
On the Island of Caliban is a brand new play-in-verse continuing William Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Focusing on the character of Caliban, this modern language deconstruction of the bards classic text, presents an “everyman” Caliban for today’s society; Caliban tackles universal experience by exploring the realities of what left him/her alone on the island.
Split into five separate personae, and played by many genders, ages, or races, Caliban, is kept company by malevolent stage directions, Ariel’s chastising severed-tongue, and his personal revelations. In the disillusioned states of dreaming, memory, and illness, Caliban discovers the truth and himself/herself.
Rounding out the cast of players is a withered forgetful Prospero, a silenced domesticated suburban Ariel, and a tortured Miranda—all longing for something other than what they bargained for.
Through emails, mixed media, imaginative design, and poetics, On the Island of Caliban violently thrashes after The Tempest to look unflinchingly at the damage left after Shakespeare’s storm.
Date: Oct 21st, 2015
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Boston Court Performing Arts Center
70 N. Mentor Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91106
Description: Featuring readings with Sean Bernard and Jessica Piazza. Nicelle Davis will be performing her two-act play, On the Island of Caliban.
Admission: $10 - General, $5 - Students & Seniors
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Wednesday, November 4, 2015, 7:30 p.m.
The Edison
108 W 2nd St #101
Los Angeles, California 90012
Admission is free with a two drink minimum. The first 20 guests to arrive will receive a free drink voucher. Dress Code is sophisticated, no athletic wear or uncollared shirts allowed. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. This is a 21+ event.
