FIREBIRD YOUTH THEATER PRESENTS
THE TEMPEST

Tickets are now on sale for the second show of Firebird Youth Theater's Summer of Humanity season, following Karel Čapek's R.U.R.: The Tempest by William Shakespeare, directed by Leo Lion.

On a wooded island populated by sprites and spirits, an old exiled alchemist hides away, plotting his revenge. A terrible storm wrecks a nearby ship, tossing the surviving passengers onto the isle. Wandering through the lush forests and open fields, the inhabitants of the island and the newly-arrived travelers begin to find each other and to lose themselves, weaving a tangled web of ties that only wisdom and love can untwine.

Firebird revisits Shakespeare’s final comedy, The Tempest, bringing to the forefront the ties that keep us tethered and pull us asunder. From servitude to love, from debt to friendship to family, the ways in which we are fastened to each other are sometimes the only way we can find ourselves. Meanwhile, the ways in which we are bound, and the baggage we tie to ourselves, make us ever heavier and pull us down toward the depths. On this visit to Prospero’s Isle, we ask you: What do you hold onto when the storm hits? And will it hold you?

Firebird Youth Theater is a national-award-winning theatre company that has previously brought our community R.U.R., Our Town, the intergenerational modern-day Romeo + Juliet, Treasure Island, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, eXpresso, and Down the Chocolate River and Beyond.

Directed by Leo Lion
Assistant Directed by Zoe Senese-Grossberg
Production Design by Lee Socha

STARRING
Sofia Brunetti, Peter Ermishkin, David Grager, Shiloh Janowick, Max Kropf, Olga Morozova, Aaron Nichols, Oscar Saltalamacchia, and Elijah Warrington

SHOWTIMES:
Friday August 17th - 7:00PM
Sunday August 19th - 1:00PM
Sunday August 19th - 7:00PM
PLEASE NOTE: there is no show on Saturday

LOCATION: 

The Alchemical Theatre Laboratory, Studio A

104 West 14th St. in Manhattan (between 6th and 7th Aves.)

TICKETS: $20

https://tempest-fyt.brownpaper tickets.com/

MORE INFO:

www.thefirebirdproject.org/