May 11 – 13, 2023
The Alliance Theatre is pleased to present the three projects in development for the Round 8 cohort of the Reiser Atlanta Artists lab in free, final presentations as part of the 2023 Reiser Atlanta Artists Lab Festival. RSVPs are requested.
Daughter House 5
Thursday, May 11th at 6:00 PM
Black Box Theatre, Third Floor of the Memorial Arts Building
This multi-media performance follows one man’s journey, and that of his family members, through time as he examines the trauma and joy that has formed his personal and collective history. Using layers of quilts — both actual textiles and video mapping projections — and percussion-based storytelling, this performance will take audiences on a sensory journey through time and space. With a nod to its namesake, Slaughterhouse-Five, Daughter House 5 explores the way that trauma can influence our grasp on time, allowing us to speed it up, slow it down, or even travel through it.
Reiser Lab Artists: Jeff Mather, Marquetta Johnson, John Edward Doyle Jr.
Grace to Accra
Saturday, May 13th at 2:00pm
Al Hamacher Movement Studio, Third Floor of the Memorial Arts Building
Grace to Accra is a musical theater work inspired by the life and work of Dr. William Edward Du Bois. It focuses on the intellectual titan’s final years in Ghana as he reflects on his long life and strives to finish one of his most ambitious projects: the Encyclopedia Africana.
Reiser Lab Artists: Dwight Andrews, Louis Massiah, Ria DiLullo, Ben Polite
Malicious Compliance
Saturday, May 13th at 6:00pm
Black Box Theatre, Third Floor of the Memorial Arts Building
Malicious Compliance is a primal scream, an elegy, a challenge, a dismantled classic, a call to action that asks if and how in this world of economic uncertainty, institutional collapse, and increasing violence, the most vulnerable can write their own story.
Reiser Lab Artists: Frankie Mulinix, Humlao Evans, Jordyn King
