The Actors' Gang Theater, home to over 38 years of provocative stories, opens its 2019-20 season with a new production of 1984, written by George Orwell, adapted by Michael Gene Sullivan, and directed by The Actors' Gang Artistic Director Tim Robbins. The play will begin previews Thursday, October 10th and run through Saturday, December 7th, with an official press opening on Saturday, October 19th.
The season concludes on June 13th, 2020 with Cabaret, directed by Will Thomas McFadden, with book by Joe Masteroff, stories by Christopher Isherwood, music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb. The 2019-20 season also includes Dario Fo's Can't Pay? Won't Pay!, directed by Bob Turton and translated by Cam Deaver, and a workshop production of Fritz Lang's drama-thriller M, co-written by Thea von Harbou and Fritz Lang, and adapted and directed by Tess Vidal. Last season, The Actors' Gang Theater presented an acclaimed production of Fo's, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, earning 4 2019 Stage Raw Awards nominations. Bob Turton earned Best Male Comedy Award for playing the Maniac. The season also includes Free Shakespeare in the Park. In Orwell's classic 1984, Winston Smith hates his job. He works in the Ministry of Information rewriting history to serve the interests of the powerful. Winston's soul is stirring with rebellion and his heart alive with love. Welcome to a world of no privacy, where electronic screens create paranoia, divisiveness and hatred for the 'other', where the state manufactures consent for perpetual war, and where truth is manipulated and love itself is an act of rebellion. Seventy one years ago, in writing his visionary novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell eerily predicted the world we are currently living in.Videos