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We Are Pussy Riot!
2015
Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Shepherdstown, WV
Directed by Tea Alagic
Written by Barbara Hammond
Scenic Design: Peter Ksander
Costume Design: Trevor Bowen
Lighting Design: D. M. Wood
Sound Design: Elishebea Ittoop
Production Stage Manager: Debra Acquavella
Featuring: Cary Donaldson, Libby Matthews, Sarah Nealis, T Ryder Smith, Katya Stepanov, Liba Vaynberg, Allyson Jean Malandra, Keyla McClure, Adam H. Phillips, & Brianne Taylor
About the Work:
We Are Pussy Riot or Everything Is P.R., by Barbara Hammond, blends documentary theater, music, and political performance to tell the story of Pussy Riot’s 2012 “punk prayer” inside Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. The protest led to arrests and a highly publicized trial that brought questions of artistic and political expression into international focus.
The play explores feminism, state power, religious authority, media representation, and the personal cost of political resistance.
Tea Alagić directed the commissioned production at the Contemporary American Theater Festival in 2015.
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REVIEWS / PRESS
An outstanding evening of agitprop . . . Director Tea Alagić has assembled a fine cast and worked them into an ensemble that interacts as freely with the audience as they do with each other.
– MD Theatre Guide, Andrew White
The story blisters to life . . . An in-your-face mix of ripped-from-the-transcripts dialogue, performance art, improv and fourth-wall shattering by Barbara Hammond and directed with rebel verve by Tea Alagic. No sitting at a polite distance in this production
– DC Theatre Scene, Jayne Blanchard
Tea Alagić directs with verve and skill
– DCMetro Theatre Arts, Robert Michael Oliver
