Class Dismissed – Apr 18-May 4

April 18 – May 4, 2025

Ellen Stewart Theatre
66 East 4th Street
New York, NY 10003

Tickets:

Adults: $35
Students/Seniors: $25
Ticket prices are inclusive of all fees.

Director & Performer: Daniel Irizarry

Writer: Robert Lyons

Composer: Rhys Tivey

 

 

ABOUT

CLASS DISMISSED celebrates the exuberance of young minds imagining a future of possibility – in an intellectually exhausted and emotionally self-absorbed pataphysical academia. Two grad-students hallucinate a post-capitalist manifesto; while your favorite professor slides into dementia; and his nemesis – the Other-Lit-Professor – performs love poems inspired by her affair in a prestigious artist colony.
 
Anticipate your (consensual) participation as we invite the audience onstage to eat bread, drink rum, write on the set with chalk, and swap books that you bring to the show. With live music, and a different guest artist at each performance, this is the grad school you wish you went to!

Your favorite professor slides into dementia; while his two grad-students hallucinate a post-capitalist manifesto; and his nemesis – the Other-Lit-Professor – performs love poems inspired by her affair in a prestigious artist colony.

 Anticipate your (consensual) participation as we peel yuca, improvise dances, make butter, and invite the audience onstage to eat (bread), drink (Puerto Rican rum), write on the set (with chalk), and swap books (that they bring to the show). With live music, sing-alongs, and a different guest artist at each performance. This is the grad school you wish you went to.

CREDITS

Soho Think Tank & One-Eighth Theater
Director & Performer: Daniel Irizarry
Writer: Robert Lyons
Composer: Rhys Tivey
Set & Costume Designer: Deb O
Lighting Designer: Robin Ediger Seto
Sound Designer: M Florian Staab

Cast

Professor Watson: Daniel Irizarry
The Other-Lit-Professor: Pepper Binkley
Student A: Yaraní del Valle Piñero
Student B: Rhys Tivey

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