Variations on the Main

By William Burke
March 14 - 30, 2019

Playwright/director William Burke and composer Catherine Brookman return to JACK with a "theatrical séance for listening," co-directed by Burke and Bryn Herdrich.

From the artists: "We will try and fail and try again and ask for a commitment to our fellow humans sharing our air. Not a self help cult...not a thing...just some floorboards and some real time."

Written by William Burke
Co-directed by William Burke and Bryn Herdrich
Composed by Catherine Brookman
Designed by Megan Lang

DATES/TIMES:
Thursday, March 14 at 8 pm
Friday, March 15 at 8 pm
Saturday, March 16 at 8 pm
Wednesday, March 20 at 8 pm
Thursday, March 21 at 8 pm
Friday, March 22 at 8 pm
Saturday, March 23 at 8 pm
Monday, March 25 at 8 pm
Wednesday, March 27 at 8 pm
Thursday, March 28 at 8 pm
Friday, March 29 at 8 pm
Saturday,, March 30 at 8 pm


WILLIAM BURKE is a playwright, director and curator living in Brooklyn. His productions include the food was terrible (The Bushwick Starr), PIONEERS!#goforth (JACK), COMFORT DOGS: Live from the Pink House (JACK), FURRY! (JACK), FURRY!/LA FURIA! (The Bushwick Starr), Untitled American Flag Craft Project (The Brick). With Target Margin Theater: I Made a Mistake, EXPLODITY! and DAY!Night?fuck (JACK and The Stahl Center at Stoney Brook University) He has developed his plays/presented readings at The Black Swan Lab (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), The Bushwick Starr, Little theatre (Dixon Place), The Prelude Festival (CUNY Grad center) and CATCH. William studied playwriting at Brooklyn College with Mac Wellman, Anne Washburn and Erin Courtney. He is the head curator for The Starr Reading Series at the Bushwick Starr, Co-Chair of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and co-curator for Little Theatre at Dixon Place.

Photos: William Burke (credit, Sue Kessler), Catherine Brookman in Pioneers (credit, Kevin Frest)