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New Plays Festival: People on Earth


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by Sam Grabiner
Directed by Keenan Tyler Oliphant

Showtimes
Friday, June 3 @ 2:30 pm
Friday, June 3 @ 8 pm
Sunday, June 5 @ 2:30 pm

An audience gathers. They sit in a circle. And the actors begin to tell them a story… 

We are in a prehistoric forest and the trees are dying. Two strangers meet on the outskirts of an ancient city. An iPhone buzzes in a small boat on a stormy sea at night. 

As epic as it is intimate, People on Earth takes us on a three-hundred-million-year journey from primordial extinction, through to the not-so-distant future. A play about human progress. And what is lost along the way.Content Warning

Play includes a brief moment of violence.

Run Time

70 minutes, no Intermission

Cast

Che’Li – ENSEMBLE
Anthony Naranjo – ENSEMBLE
Rachel Rivera – ENSEMBLE
Lolo Rosado-Vallejo – ENSEMBLE

Creative Team

Production Stage Manager Lucas Gomes
Scenic Coordinator Tavish Miller
Lighting Coordinator Ashley Kok
Sound Coordinator Matt Coggins
Props Coordinator Britta Kuhn

About the Artist

Sam Grabiner is a playwright from London. His play Next Year In Jerusalem! was a finalist for The O’Neill’s National Playwrights Conference (2021) and won the Roundabout Theatre New Play Reading Series (2020). Neptune was shortlisted for the 2019 Bruntwood Prize, and he is a resident playwright at Papatango Theatre Company. He has completed residencies at the Bush Theatre in London and is a graduate of The Royal Court Theatre’s Young Writers Programme. 

He co-runs the theatre company Pelican, whose high energy physical comedy shows have toured internationally. He is a graduate of the clown school L’ecole Philippe Gaulier.

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