“There wasn’t a cough or creak in the house...” 



A few months ago, I began working with a particularly talented group of actors on a rarely-performed one-act play.  The casting was just right, and as they began to explore, we started hearing amazing things in that script that we had never heard before.  The people in that story roared to life, and we started seeing these characters in a new light.  Then came a stunning, goose-bump image at the very end – for a magic moment, everybody held their breath...



The actors relaxed, shook out their arms and legs a bit, and grinned at each other through teary eyes.  And we began to clap.  We wiped away our tears and laughed and cheered and applauded.  We knew that this was more than just studio work.  We had just been socked in the gut by one of the greatest, fiercest dramatists in the history of the English language, Tennessee Williams.



“Something disturbing, something irregular, something brave and honest…”



In his 1948 essay for The New York Star titled Something Wild…, Williams wrote that a performance of a play should “deliver a punch to the solar plexus,” in a kind of “benevolent anarchy.”  He remembered with great admiration a ragged company of actors who delivered an evening of theater after which “nobody left without a disturbing kink in their nerves or guts.”



Our Something Wild… is a performance of three of Williams’ lesser-known but most powerful one-act plays:



Twenty-Seven Wagons Full of Cotton:  A Mississippi Delta Comedy
Hello From Bertha
and
This Property is Condemned



Here are three remarkable stories of human beings fighting to survive and fighting to love, in the most astonishing ways.  Together, brought to life by a cast of intrepid actors willing to take artistic risks, they pack the kind of punch in the gut Williams craved, and offer a chance to rip open the protective garments of polite society and reveal something raw and desperate not just in these characters, but somewhere in each of us.



Please join us for “something exciting, something that you are not used to…” 

Please join us for SOMETHING WILD…

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- Ken Schatz (Director)

THE COMPANY    *Click for more info​

Ken Schatz

Jack Haley

Andrus Nichols

Heidi Hackney

Ashleigh Becker

Brian Gianci

David Armanino

Imani Jade Powers

Lucas Womack