The Uncomfortable Conversation
A Collaborative Video Project
Beginning September 2019
ATB will begin our season embarking on a year-long volunteer project, combining the shared missions of several incredible organizations as we work together to normalize conversations about sexual assault and healthy and unhealthy relationships through education and action-oriented projects for people of all ages.
Policarpa: A Staged Reading
By Diana Burbano
Fall 2019
In the near future, an inexplicable plague infests La Gran Colombia. Ingrid Bolivar–the brilliant, mad ex-wife of Colombia’s leader–is the only one who knows that the plague is carried by young women of the streets, whom she adopts and uses as weapons against the government. But when Policarpa, Ingrid’s secret weapon, falls in love with a top government official, she resists becoming an instrument of destruction and instead seeks to become a savior through sacrifice.
Tempest Reconfigured
in Partnership with Fort Point Theater Channel
Fall 2019
ATB is excited to partner with Fort PointTheater Channel as well as several incredible arts organizations to create a collage-piece of short works drawing on themes from The Tempest, such as the consequences of colonialism, racism, gender stereotypes, immigration, and climate change.
The Masculinity Project
A Devised New Work
Winter 2020
This devised ensemble piece will explore the nuanced social, cultural, and political roles of masculinity, and its complex relationships to the personal narratives of people with differing gender and sexual identities.The piece seeks to speak what is too often unspoken around masculine identities and hopes to illicit new and healing conversation as a result.
She Eats Apples
By Stephanie K. Brownell
Directed by Jasmine Brooks
Summer 2020
She Eats Apples is a nonlinear exploration of rape culture as seen through the eyes of four teenagers embroiled in the complexities of growing up. The play asks: How can we imagine a culture of consent and healthy relationships when we are embroiled in the complex web of rape culture, when we are taught through media, casual conversation, and uncritiqued views of history that what doesn’t feel right inside our own bodies, is just normal?
Project TBA
Spring 2020
We can’t tell you about this one just yet, but let’s just say…. it is everything.