dante green, annie hoeg & jacob perkins // photo by stephen mease

SCIENCE PARK (2021)

third person // TARGET MARGIN THEATER
directed by JAY STULL​ | performed by DANTE GREEN, ANNIE HOEG, MELISSA HURST & JACOB PERKINS | designed by RYAN COURTNEY (set), EVAN SPIGELMAN (light), DANTE GREEN (sound), ANNIE HOEG (clothes), NOAH MEASE (objects & illustrations) | carpentry by ASA MEASE, production support by T. ADAMSON | produced by MADELEINE BERSIN | supported in part by a grant from the CITY ARTIST CORPS

before anyone arrived, we rehearsed for weeks in airy sunlit rooms, in our apartments, in rented studios. we rented a theater that was once a warehouse. we painted the floor and built a stage and pretended it was a spherical house. people came from anywhere. we sat in a circle of chairs, all looking inward & through the center & at each other across the stage. lights changed, sounds and music played, time moved in queer ways. for about an hour, it seemed as if a week was passing, characters seemed to come and go and change. actors gave voice to memorized text: descriptions of other places, other times, scientific understanding, history, other works of art. their hearts seemed to race and break and heal. at the end of the play, the big warehouse door clattered open and sun- or steetlight revealed our artifice. the actors bowed. we stood and spoke and looked around. many left, but some of us stayed, and others came and we did it all again.

DEVELOPMENT HISTORY
ARS NOVA OUT LOUD READING with JAY STULL, NADINE MALOUF, CHRIS PERFETTI, KATE BORNSTEIN, NEAL GUPTA, RYAN COURTNEY, VERONICA LEE, CAMERON MOIR
NEW LIGHT THEATRE PROJECT / ACCESS THEATER with JAY STULL, LENA HUDSON, JACOB PERKINS, MELISSA HURST, DANIEL CROIX HENDERSON, RYAN COURTNEY
FRESH GROUND PEPPER BRB RETREAT with JAY STULL, LENA HUDSON, the FGP LEADERSHIP and the 2017 BRB APPRENTICES