July 31st, 2011

CREATED AND PRODUCED BY WOODSHED COLLECTIVE
WRITTEN BY STEVEN LEVENSON, TOMMY SMITH, DYLAN DAWSON, SARAH BURGESS, PAUL COHEN, & BEKAH BRUNSTETTER
INSPIRED BY ROLAND TOPOR’S BOOK
DIRECTED BY TEDDY BERGMAN & STEPHEN BRACKETT
PERFORMED BY ROB ASKINS, JULIETTE COHEN, DAN COZZENS, MICHAEL PATRICK CRANE, AARON DIAS, EVAN ENDERLE, ERIN FELGAR, MARY JANE GIBSON, STEPHEN GRAYBILL, JUDITH GREENTREE, VANINA KONDOVA, JOCELYN KURITSKY, MAREN LANGDON, ROGER LIRTSMAN, MALCOM MADERA, MARIA MCCONVILLE, MELISSA MILLER, MICHAEL PIAZZA, LYNNE ROSENBERG, CAITLIN MCDONOUGH THAYER, IAN UNTERMAN, MOLLY WARD AND TRAVIS YORK

AD MISSION | FREE to the public

TICKETS | Book Now

WHERE | West Park Parish House, 86th & Amsterdam, New York

WHEN | Performances begin August 10

Set in Paris and inspired by Roland Topor’s book, which was famously adapted into a film by Roman Polanski, The Tenant is a thrilling, haunting, and grotesquely hilarious investigation into the relationship between who we are and where we live. When Monsieur Trelkovsky rents a room recently vacated by a woman who fell from her window, he soon finds his world changing in bizarre ways. Haunted by images of the previous tenant’s apparent suicide and terrorized by his new neighbors, Trelkovsky begins a slow decent into paranoia and delirium.

Installed by Woodshed over multiple building stories, The Tenant will be scripted by a team of New York’s brightest up and coming playwrights: Steven Levenson (Roundabout’s The Language of Trees), Tommy Smith (P73, Williamstown), Dylan Dawson (Naked Angels, Ars Nova, 52nd Street Project), Sarah Burgess (Naked Angels), Paul Cohen (Woodshed’s The Confidence Man), and Bekah Brunstetter (Atlantic Theater Company’s Oohrah!). The Tenant will explore the bubbling conflict between an uncanny mix of colorful characters to create a symphonic piece of theater. Utilizing a company of over 20 actors, Woodshed will create a shifting, mirrored landscape saturated with sound, dance, video and light designed to delight and unnerve while drawing our attention to those aspects of ourselves we hide just below the surface. We intend the piece to exist as a fun-house mirror to the often-harrowing experiences of urban living.