Mind The Gap - Atlanta
This February, Braver Angels will be working with the award-winning New York Theatre Workshop (Rent, Hadestown, What the Constitution Means to Me, Slave Play) to produce a weekend workshop of Mind The Gap in Atlanta.
Mind the Gap is a free multigenerational theatre program in which people across political divides interview each other on their political differences and turn them into theatrical and musical performances.
No theatre experience is necessary.
Cost: Free
Where: Oak Grove United Methodist Church (Decatur, GA)
Workshop Dates:Â
Friday, February 21st: 6pm-9pm
Saturday, February 22nd: 10am-6pm
Sunday, February 23rd: 10am-6pm
The program will end with a cabaret performance on Sunday afternoon open to the public.
Please note that Mind the Gap is not an acting or performance class; performance is merely the tool through which we mind the gap between generations.
If you have questions about the program, you can write to mark@braverangels.org.
New York Theatre Workshop empowers visionary theatre-makers and brings their work to adventurous audiences through productions, artist workshops and education and community engagement programs. We nurture pioneering new writers alongside powerhouse playwrights, engage inimitable genre-shaping directors, and support emerging artists in the earliest days of their careers. We’ve mounted over 150 productions from artists whose work has shaped our very idea of what theatre can be, including Jonathan Larson’s Rent; Tony Kushner’s Slavs! and Homebody/Kabul; Doug Wright’s Quills; Claudia Shear’s Blown Sideways Through Life and Dirty Blonde; Paul Rudnick’s The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told and Valhalla; Martha Clarke’s Vienna: Lusthaus; Will Power’s The Seven and Fetch Clay, Make Man; Caryl Churchill’s Mad Forest, Far Away, A Number and Love and Information; Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen’s Aftermath; Rick Elice’s Peter and the Starcatcher; Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová and Enda Walsh’s Once; David Bowie and Enda Walsh’s Lazarus; Dael Orlandersmith’s The Gimmick and Forever; Heidi Schreck’s What the Constitution Means to Me; Jeremy O. Harris’s Slave Play; Kristina Wong’s Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord; Aleshea Harris’s On Sugarland; and eight acclaimed productions directed by Ivo van Hove. NYTW’s productions have received a Pulitzer Prize, 25 Tony Awards, 2 Grammy Awards and numerous Obie, Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Awards. NYTW is represented on Broadway with Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown, developed with and directed by Rachel Chavkin; and the Broadway engagement of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Merrily We Roll Along, directed by Maria Friedman and choreographed by Tim Jackson.
Alongside its artistic and community engagement activities, NYTW is engaged in the essential, sustained commitment of becoming an anti-racist organization in support and affirmation of Black people, Indigenous people and People of Color in its community. In June of 2020, NYTW published its Core Values statement and initial action and accountability steps. In an effort to provide greater transparency, NYTW shares progress updates, further commitments and next steps at nytw.org/accountability.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT NYTW:Â www.nytw.org
