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In Performance: The Irresistible (NYC)

The Irresistible
Fridays and Saturdays at 7pm and 9pm
From April 10th -26th at Immersive Gallery – 132 Bedford Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
House and bar open from 6pm to 12am.

Tickets (General admission): $15
For tickets, book on Universe: https://www.uniiverse.com/events/the-irresistible-tickets-brooklyn-J679X

The Irresistible is a completely immersive theatrical experience, adapted and directed by Caleb Hammond. Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabler” and Euripides’ “The Bacchae” come together in an interwoven, layered, and expansive drama of the human condition. The show’s malleable perspectives are brought to life through translucent live camera feeds, keeping the scene to scene focus fluid and dynamic.

Audience members are free to explore the entire playing space and have a drink at the bar while taking in the performance and live atmospheric music by the all-female punk band HUFF THIS! For those who REALLY can’t resist, the show may be viewed in a loop from 7pm until closing.

The Irresistible cast and crew:

HEDDA GABLER – April Sweeney
TESMAN – Joshua William Gelb
MRS. ELVSTED – Claire Buckingham
LOVBORG – Luka Glinsky
JUDGE BRACK – Rick Hutzler
MS. TESMAN – Deborah Zahn
CADMUS – Oscar de la Fe
CHORUS LEADER – RN Healey
CHORUS – Mollie Downes, Naomi Lake
AGAVE – Lily Akerman
TIRESIUS – John Hagan
PENTHEUS – Kyle Griffiths
DIONYSUS – Greg Zuccolo/Mollie Downes
SOLDIER – Gabriel Sanchez
MESSENGER – Justin Calvert
and featuring Amy Thurmond, Emily Pacilio, Charlotte Colmant, Julie Miller, Cassandra Cotta as THE MAENADS

THE BAND – Alison Clancy, Hira Lupe, Hitomi Nakamura, Jennifer Eden, Sonny Ratcliff, and Mollie Downes

DIRECTOR – Caleb Hammond
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR – Kat Yen
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER – Ben Mandell
SCENIC DESIGN – Brandon McNeel
SOUND DESIGN – AJ Surasky
MEDIA DESIGN – Kevan Loney and Paul Piekarz

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Caden Manson is a director, media artist, and teacher. He is co-founder of the media ensemble bigartgroup.com and network, blog, and publisher, contemporaryperformance.com. He has co-created, directed, video- and set designed 18 Big Art Group productions. Manson has shown video installations in Austria, Germany, NYC, and Portland; performed PAIN KILLER in Berlin, Singapore and Vietnam; Taught in Berlin, Rome, Paris, Montreal, NYC, and Bern; the ensemble has been co-produced by the Vienna Festival, Festival d’Automne a Paris, Hebbel Am Ufer, Rome’s La Vie de Festival, PS122, and Wexner Center for The Arts. Caden is a 2001 Foundation For Contemporary Art Fellow, is a 2002 Pew Fellow and a 2011 MacDowell Fellow. Writing has been published in PAJ, Theater Magazine, and Theater der Zeit. Caden is currently an associate professor and graduate directing option coordinator of The John Wells Directing Program at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama.

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