**Cancelled
Written by The Presnyakov Brothers
Translated by Sasha Dugdale
Produced by arrangement with Nick Hern Books
Directed by Velani Dibba
Showtimes
Thursday, March 5, 2020 @ 8 pm
Saturday, March 7, 2020 @ 8 pm
Tuesday, March 10, 2020 @ 8 pm
Friday, March 13, 2020 @ 8 pm
Saturday, March 14, 2020 @ 2 pm
Columbia University School of the Arts is proud to present Terrorism, by Velani Dibba '20.
Terrorism is a darkly comic rendering of the latent violence lurking beneath the mundanity of everyday life. Delayed flights, BDSM experimentation, neighborly gossip, and locker room talk are exposed as dangerous cat-and-mouse games where we can no longer tell the difference between perpetrator and victim. This English translation of the contemporary Russian play by the Presnyakov Brothers interrogates why we can’t seem to stop torturing one another. When each choice we make might spark an explosion, is there any way to keep the bomb from going off?
FEATURING
Nora Armani*, Richard Fisher, Andrew Hardigg, Brian D. McCormack, Victoria Nilsson, Stephon Pettway*, Mary Regan, Sally Roberts, and Robert Spiker.
*Appearing Courtesy of Actor’s Equity Association.
PRODUCTION TEAM
Producer Maryl McNally
Production Stage Manager Dennis Ngoc Ho
1st Assistant Stage Manager Vanessa Rebeil
Set Designer Megan Parker
Costume Designer Ashley Gardner
Lighting Designer Ashley Kok
Dramaturg Stephen Smith
Intimacy Director Katie Claire Bradley
Sound Designer Matthew Coggins
Graphic Designer Annie Jin Wang
About the Director
Velani Dibba is a Polynesian-Gambian director and designer, raised in the United States, the Gambia, and Italy. She received a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service before coming to New York to pursue her directing MFA at Columbia. This past summer, she served as Anne Bogart’s assistant director on Falling & Loving, a new SITI Company collaboration with Elizabeth Streb’s STREB Extreme Action. She currently works as the Producing & Dramaturgy Intern at SITI Company, and was a former fellow both at the Laboratory for Global Performance & Politics in Washington, D.C. and the Global Cultural Institute at the University of Edinburgh. Recent directing credits include Apologies to the Bengali Lady (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), Patience (Corkscrew Theater Festival), Space Odyssey (Columbia University).
Directing Thesis Interview: Terrorism
Underproduced Terrorism Finds New Life as Velani Dibba’s Third-Year Director’s Thesis.