Season 8

“Literature in Dystopia”

What Once We Felt
What Once We Felt Ann Marie Healy
March 14th - 22nd, 2014
What Once We Felt

Flat Earth presents the New England premiere of Ann Marie Healy's What Once We Felt, a science-fiction exploration of the schisms in society and technology. One woman’s utopia is another’s dystopia in which a fully digitized caste society of genetically engineered “Keepers” threaten to drive the intrinsically disadvantaged “Tradepacks” to extinction. Echoing this strife, writer Macy O. Blonsky fights to see her novel—the last novel—published while the editing process strips her work of its intended meaning. Healy's futuristic vision of eugenics and the hunger for creative integrity brings to life the age-old struggle over whose stories deserve to be told.

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Reader
Reader Ariel Dorfman
June 13th - 21st, 2014
Reader

Daniel Lucas, the government’s top censor, is confronted with a manuscript that threatens to expose his darkest secrets. In his quest to uncover the story’s author, he finds that not only do its words reveal the secrets of his past, but that they may also predict the details of his future. As the worlds of fiction and reality clash and combine, a nightmarish reality emerges where any one of us can be cut, recut, and redacted into oblivion, spotlighting the harsh consequences of bureaucratic control over the flow of information.

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Pygmalion
Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw
August 22nd - 30th, 2014
Pygmalion

Overseen by a totalitarian police state, the people of London navigate the stations of the century-old Underground. Here, flower seller Eliza Doolittle meets the privileged Henry Higgins, a linguistic mastermind who makes a bet that, through lessons in speech and phonetics, he can pass her off as a duchess in six months. Contrasting cold Edwardian elitism with the vibrant and multicultural London of today, Flat Earth’s new adaptation throws Pygmalion’s themes of inequality into stark relief — and Liza and Higgins’ struggle between two far apart worlds will bring new meaning to “mind the gap.”

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Experience #DoubleDorfman!

Flat Earth and OTP are teaming up to offer a unique way to experience Ariel Dorfman's Resistance Trilogy.

This year, Flat Earth Theatre & Open Theatre Project have joined forces to present #DoubleDorfman, a collaborative adventure celebrating playwright Ariel Dorfman during the month of June. Together we will be co-producing a free staged reading of Dorfman's Widows (June 7th), alongside Flat Earth’s Reader (June 13-21) & OTP’s Death & The Maiden (June 20-28).

Widows

In a community where the men have been disappeared by a fascist government not unlike the playwright's native Chile, an unidentifiable corpse turns up in the river. The tormented women who remain — grandmothers, mothers, wives — rise up against their oppressors to demand their loved ones returned, dead or alive, at the risk of their own safety.

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