SEASON 29 | AUGUST 2017

TWENTYEIGHT

By Tyler English-Beckwith
Directed by Tyler English-Beckwith & Matrex Kilgore,
Presented by Gale Theatre Company and The VORTEX
View photos from the production here.

Set to the hymns of Kanye West, TWENTYEIGHT is the story of six Black people separated from their homes in search of outer space. As they work to build their space craft, they live in constant fear of the sirens and what comes after the sirens are gone.

TWENTYEIGHT is inspired by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement research that concluded in 2012 a Black person was murdered in the United States of America every 28 hours by a police officer or vigilante. TWENTYEIGHT is an afro-futuristic look at police brutality and racial violence in the United States. TWENTYEIGHT asks us, who will survive in the America we are building? And how do we hang on to hope when fear is on the only constant?

Performance Ensemble

Delanté Keys, Taji Senior-Gipson, Mae Rose Hill, Oktavea Williams, Kenah Benefield, Jeremy Rashad Brown

production team

Playwright, Tyler English-Beckwith, Directed by Tyler English-Beckwith & Matrex Kilgore, Executive Producer, Katherine Wilkinson, Production Manager/Movement Coordinator/Asst. Director: Brianna Smith, Dramaturgy by Gethsemane Herron-Coward, Lighting Design by Rachel Atkinson, Scenic Design by Ann Marie Gordon, Technical Directtion by Zac Crofford, Stage Management by Valerie Johnson, Asst. Stage Management by Latoya Patterson, Graphic Design by Hakeem Adewumi, Produced by Gale Theatre & The VORTEX.

ABOUT GALE THEATRE

Gale Theatre Company is dedicated to presenting new ensemble driven work, training actors, and community collaboration. We strive to make performance that is physically daring, aesthetically arresting, emotionally compelling, and ensemble driven. For more information visit galetheatre.org or katherinewilkinson.com

Praise for Gale Theatre the “most astonishing and innovative pieces of theater to come along in Austin in quite a while.” W.K.; Broadway World, Jeff Davis

“Gale Theatre Company’s play is everything modern theater should be” Salomé; CTX Live Theatre, Brian Scipione

Funded in part by VORTEX Repertory Company, The John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies at the University of Texas, a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts, The Austin Awesome Foundation and by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.