NAYATT SCHOOL REDUX
In NAYATT SCHOOL REDUX, our current company revisits NAYATT SCHOOL, a 1978 Wooster Group work that featured Spalding Gray's first monologue and a red tent. Back then, The New York Times’ Richard Eder wrote about NAYATT SCHOOL: “the tone varies from straightforward searching to brilliant absurdity.” And Mel Gussow, in a review titled “The Misadventures of an Actor,” called it “a savage assault on phonograph records.”
Production Credits
With Ari Fliakos, Gareth Hobbs, Erin Mullin, Michaela Murphy (2023), Suzzy Roche, Scott Shepherd, Kate Valk, and Omar Zubair
Composed by the Company
Director: Elizabeth LeCompte
Sound and Original Music: Eric Sluyter, Omar Zubair
Lighting: David Sexton
Set: Elizabeth LeCompte
Original Video and 16mm Nayatt School Film: Ken Kobland
Partial Video of Spalding Gray’s monologue taped at the Mickery Theater (1978)
Additional Video: Irfan Brkovic, Wladimiro Woyno, Yudam Hyung Seok Jeon (2023), Andrew Maillet (2023)
Multimedia Cueing System Engineering: Wladimiro Woyno, Andrew Maillet
Costumes: Enver Chakartash
Stage Manager: Erin Mullin
Assistant Directors: Matthew Dipple, Michaela Murphy
Technical Director: Jacob Bigelow (2018-2019)
Tour Technical Director: Joseph Silovsky (2023)
Technical Assistant: Danasia Miller (2018-2019)
Production Manager: Bona Lee
Archivist: Clay Hapaz
Excerpts from The Cocktail Party used by permission from the T.S. Eliot Estate.
Thanks to Niall Cunningham, Tony Oursler, and Jennifer Tipton, and to Sandra Berdick and Hanna Novak.
Production History
2018 September 6 - 20: Rehearsals at The Performing Garage
2019 October 22 - December 21: Rehearsals at The Performing Garage
2019 January 2 - 18: Rehearsals at The Performing Garage
2019 February 13 - 20: Rehearsals at The Performing Garage
2019 April 22 - May 25: Rehearsals at The Performing Garage (open rehearsals May 8-25)
2023 January 2 - 10: Rehearsals at The Performing Garage
2023 April 11 - 12: Rehearsals at The Performing Garage
2023 April 28 - 30: Performances at Festival Internationale Neue Dramatik (FIND), Schaubühne, Berlin
