BY ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA
Directed by Jenny McConnell Frederick
January 27 – February 25
Previews begin January 24
Complete schedule at bottom of this page
ALL PERFORMANCES FOR THE FINAL WEEKEND
OF ROUGH MAGIC ARE SOLD OUT
For all sold-out shows, A STANDBY LIST will be started at 7pm each night. ALL UNCLAIMED TICKETS will be released to the standby list at 8pm
"IF YOU SEE ONLY ONE PLAY during the six-month-long Shakespeare In Washington Festival SEE ROUGH MAGIC... the play itself prooves an inspired choice for an impoverished but balls- to-the-wall theater company."
- The City Paper
(for the complete review, click HERE)
"A fiendishly tempting fairyland"
- Washington Post
(for the complete review, click HERE)
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Part of the Kennedy Center’s
SHAKESPEARE IN WASHINGTON FESTIVAL
Caliban has escaped from Prospero's island after being imprisoned for 500 years. On the run from his sadistic and powerful master, he finds himself in modern-day New York where he joins forces with a dramaturg with magical powers and a love-struck lifeguard who might be the child warrior fated to save the world. Taking his cues from many of today’s most popular comic and graphic novel writers like Neil Gaiman (SANDMAN), Bill Willingham (FABLES) and Warren Ellis (PLANETARY), Aguirre-Sacasa, a writer for Marvel Comics and one of America's hottest young playwrights, melds a very real New York with Shakespeare’s THE TEMPEST, creating a modern tale of thrills, chills and drag queen furies.
FEATURING: Company Members Tracy Lynn Olivera, Grady Weatherford and Jason Basinger Linkins and also featuring Diana Cherkas, Danny Gavigan, Cesar A. Guadamuz, Gwen Grastorf, Lee Liebeskind, Dustin Loomis, Ghillian Porter and Vasanth Santosham
DESIGNED BY: Eric Grims (Set), Andrew Cissna (Lights), Frank Labovitz (Costumes), Matthew Frederick (Sound), Debra Kim Sivigny (Props), Andrew F. Griffin (Asst. Lighting Design)
DRAMATURGY: Rachel Miller ASST DIRECTOR: Ryan Taylor
FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHY: Casey Kaleba
STAGE MANAGED BY: Megan Reichelt ASST SM: Cecilia Cackley
SHOW SCHEDULE: January 27 – February 24
with shows on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm
with additional shows
on Saturday February 17 at 2pm
and Saturday February 24 at 2pm
SPECIAL VALENTINES SHOW on Wednesday February 14!
PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN PREVIEWS RUN: Jan 24-26
with shows at 8pm Wednesday, Thursday and Friday nights. THERE ARE NO RESERVATIONS FOR PREVIEWS. Tickets are purchased at the door beginning one hour before the show
ROUGH MAGIC is sponsored in part by generous contributions from Samantha & John Foti, Lt. Col. & Mrs. William F. McConnell and an Anonymous Donor.