Thu, Jan 9, 2020
Stage Left kicks off with a visit to the Jersey Shore to meet the creative team of Cabaret for Life's Housewives of Monmouth County. Cabaret for Life is celebrating its 25th year of raising money for local HIV/AIDS charities. In this episode, we look at how the Housewives of Monmouth County, an episodic theatre project spanning the course of 10 years, poking fun at the Jersey Shore has become a local legend and helped to revitalize a beach town.
Sat, Feb 1, 2020
This episode takes us to the Philadelphia Circus School to meet the Tribe of Fools, a group of physical theatre practitioners who are using circus, parkour, and acrobatics to address critical issues in their local community. We explore how movement helps to transcend language and express the complex emotions when words fall short.
Mon, Mar 2, 2020
In the third episode of Stage Left, the team visits the Mount Pisgah Baptist Church in East New York, Brooklyn as they prepare for the annual production of MAAFA, a large scale production that explores the trauma endured by African people in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. This episode looks at how the creative team and members of the church transform the sanctuary into a living museum to create a healing journey for audiences.