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Premiering Wednesday January 9, 2008 at the Public Theater at 8pm
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This Place is a Desert
conceived and directed by Jay Scheib, in collaboration with Media Designer Leah Gelpe, Produced by Shoshana Polanco

With Performances by: Caleb Hammond, Sarita Choudhury, Thomas Keating, Aimee Phelan-Deconinck, Jorge Rubio, April Sweeney, Eric Dean Scott, and Tanya Selvaratnam

Stage and Lighting Design by Peter Ksander , Sound and Video by Leah Gelpe, StageManager Belina Mizrahi, Camera operation Karl Allen, Dramaturgy by Zishan Ugurlu, Peter Campbell, Emilie Slaby, Assistant Director, Emilie Slaby and Kenneth Roraback,

Playing January 9-20; Wed 9th at 8pm; Fri 11th at 9.30pm; Sat 12 at 2pm; Sun 13th at 7pm; Wed 16th at 7pm; Sat 19th at 4pm; Sun 20th at 7pm Tickets Available Here

 
She wants to disappear into the landscape but settles for an affair. It doesn't help. She feels worse. This is a play is about wanting to feel worse; a motion portrait parody of human loves and human emotion increasingly diminished. This Place is a Desert...

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Central to the development of this work include collaborations with technologist Daniel Benitez; dramaturges Anna Lengyel, Peter Campbell, Zishan Ugurlu; designer Jessica Hinel; musician Margareth Kammerer; and performers Jeff Clarke, Larissa Estrada, Olga Victorovna Fedorishcheva, Emily Knapp, James LeSage, and Andrea Moro Winslow.

Creative Producer Shoshana Polanco : shoshanapolanco@jayscheib.com