Theatre for a New Audience launched its 2021鈥�2022 season with the return of Will Eno's Gnit. The modern retelling of Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt opened November 7 at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn. The tragicomedy had played only four preview performances in March 2020 prior to the pandemic shutdown. It runs through November 21.
Joe Curnutte leads the cast as Peter Gnit, a young man on a search for Experience and the True Self. The small cast, playing over 30 roles, includes Jasmine Batchelor, Jordan Bellow, Christy Escobar, Deborah Hedwall, and David Shih. Eno鈥檚 frequent collaborator Oliver Butler directs the production.
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The creative team includes set designer Kimie Nishikawa, costume designers 脕sta Bennie Hostetter and Avery Reed, lighting designer Amith Chandrashaker, sound designer Lee Kinney, and composer Daniel Kluger.
TFANA's season will also feature Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (February 5鈥揗arch 4, 2022), directed by Arin Arbus, and Alice Childress鈥� 1918-set interracial love story Wedding Band (April 23鈥揗ay 15) will be directed by Awoye Timpo.