Continuing the successful experiment pioneered with their last three productions, no financial transaction is required to attend a Flux performance. Instead, attendees reserve a “Living Ticket” and are prompted to donate based on Flux’s open budget and commitment to reach living wages for all staff and artists. Living Tickets will be available in April at fluxtheatre.org/world-builders/.
“Johnna Adams’ latest play, World Builders, offers us one of the most touching portraits of mental illness I have ever seen. It helps that she writes with a generous sense of humor, too; the lessons here are delivered with ease, and it is a joy to get to know her characters.”
-Andrew White, MD Theatre Guide
Flux Theatre Ensemble will present the New York City premiere of World Builders by Johnna Adams (Gidion’s Knot, Sans Merci, The Angel Eaters Trilogy). The production will be directed by Kelly O’Donnell (Marian, Jane the Plain, Dog Act) and will feature August Schulenburg (Hearts Like Fists, Flux), and Alisha Spielmann* (Sans Merci, Flux). *Appears courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association.
In Johnna Adams’ World Builders, Whitney and Max live deep within their own imagined realities – one expansive and fanciful, the other dark and brutal. To break free of these visions and become functional members of society, they embark upon a clinical drug trial that might erase these worlds forever. But are they truly able to leave their fantasies behind? In a medicated age where our imaginations are colonized by mass media, how do we know when happiness and love are real? World Builders is Flux’s fifth production of a Johnna Adams play after Angel Eaters, Rattlers, 8 Little Antichrists, and Sans Merci.
The creative team includes Scenic Design by Will Lowry (Marian, Flux), Lighting Design by Kia Rogers (Jane the Plain, Flux, NYIT Award), Costume Design by Stephanie Levin (Hearts Like Fists, Flux), and Props Design by Lori E. Parquet. The Production Stage Manager is Ben Shipley.
