Revival
Past Productions
NO EXIT
by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Two women and one man are locked up together for eternity in one hideous room in Hell. The windows are bricked up, there are no mirrors, the electric lights can never be turned off, and there is no exit. The irony of this Hell is that its torture is not of the rack and fire, but the burning humiliation of each soul as it is stripped of its pretenses by the cruel curiosity of the damned. Here the soul is shorn of secrecy, and even the blackest deeds are mercilessly exposed to the fierce light of Hell. It is eternal torment.
TopDog/UnderDog
By Suzan-Lori Parks
OCT. 19 - OCT. 29, 2017
Topdog/Underdog is a dark comedy revolving around two African American brothers: Lincoln and Booth. Their father chose their names as a twisted joke shortly before deserting them. The choice of naming the children after an assassin and his target foreshadows how tumultuous the relationship between Lincoln and Booth would become. Both orphans have relied on each other for survival and company. Now, decades later, both men struggle to make a new life, one that will leave them away from poverty. Lincoln spends his days getting “shot” playing President Lincoln in an odd tourist attraction while Booth tries to master the con game three-card monte. Throughout their many trials and tribulations, the brothers turn to conning people on the streets, and even each other, in their attempts to survive. Full of passion and poetry.
Waiting For Godot
by Samuel Beckett
May 17 - June 2, 2019
“Waiting for Godot” by Samuel Beckett is a theatrical tour-de-force that requires an audience to question their own understanding of the meaning of existence. It's the story of two tramps that are waiting for a mysterious Mr. Godot that will deliver unto them the answers to their questionable existence.
Narçisse Theatre Company's production of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot, A Tragicomedy in Two Acts" takes a further look. Artistic Director FL Henley Jr describes this production as “a neo-Marxist, absurdist study of the African-American socio-economic class structure and its relationship to the white supremacy, capitalism, and patriarchy embedded within the founding DNA of American society”.
“RASHOMON” is a timeless psychological thriller that requires an audience to question their understanding of the meaning of the truth and their perception of it. A priest, a woodcutter, and a wigmaker take refuge from a rainstorm in the shell of a former gatehouse called Rashômon, and a tale is told. It's the story of the rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband as recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost, and a woodcutter. Narçisse Theatre Company's production of Kanin & Akutagawa’s "RASHOMON” takes a further look. Artistic Director FL Henley Jr describes this production as “A cultural exchange. It’s a blending of the juxtaposition of contemporary Western and traditional Japanese theatrical styles with an infusion of Yoruba tribal art elements, creating a surrealistic, mutable, and suggestable psychological landscape.”
“RASHOMON” by Fay and Michael Kanin, based on the stories of Ryonusuke Akutagawa .
Sept 3-11, 2021. Italian Lake Park, Harrisburg,PA
Narçisse Theatre Company is proud to present our inaugural production of our ITALIAN LAKE FREE THEATRE SERIES with the critically acclaimed Broadway play "RASHOMON" by Fay & Michael Kanin, based on the stories of Ryonusuke Akutagawa.
"RASHOMON" is a hard-boiled, psychological thriller set during the Tokugawa Period of feudal Japan
that requires an audience to question their understanding of the meaning of the truth and their perception of it.
A priest, a woodcutter, and a wig-maker take refuge from a rainstorm in the shell of a former gatehouse called Rashômon, and a tale is told. It's the story of the rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband as recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost, and a woodcutter.
(CONTENT WARNING)
Narçisse Theatre Company's production of Kanin & Akutagawa’s "RASHOMON” takes a further look. Artistic Director FL Henley Jr describes this production as “A cultural exchange. It’s a blending of the juxtaposition of contemporary Western and traditional Japanese theatrical styles with an infusion of Yoruba tribal art elements, creating a surrealistic, mutable, and suggestible psychological landscape
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Narçisse Theatre Company is proud to premiere our 2022 season with our second annual “ITALIAN LAKE FREE THEATRE SERIES” production of Sophocles’ “ANTIGONE”, at beautiful and historic ITALIAN LAKE PARK. Performances will be held on September 2,3,4,7,8,9, and 10th at 730pm. FREE!
"ANTIGONE" by Sophocles, premiered at the The Festival of Dionysus in Athens, Greece in the year 441 BCE, marking the introduction of the first feminist protagonist in Western literature.
NTÇ's original adaptation of "ANTIGONE" takes place in the “Commonwealth" of Thebes. It is the story of a disenfranchised woman's struggle against the proliferating tyranny of a patriarchal demagogue cloaked in toxic patriotism and religious extremism.
This production will combine traditional Ancient Greek and Brechtian Epic theatre with Art Deco and Neo-Classical visual design elements.
(Disclaimer: All characters portrayed in this production are fictitious. Any similarities with any actual persons is unintended and coincidental.)
“THISTLE & SALT: The Ireland of J.M. Synge” is a performative retrospective of the life and works of John Millington Synge (1871-1909).
Born in Rathfarnham, County Dublin, Ireland, Synge has been long recognized as one of the leading voices of the Irish Literary Revival of the late 19th/early 20th century and vital to the creation of the famous Abbey Theatre with William Butler Yeats and Lady Gregory.
Performed in “THISTLE & SALT: The Ireland of J.M. Synge” are not only two of Synge’s most groundbreaking plays: “Riders To The Sea”, judged by many to be one of the finest one-act tragedies ever written, and “ In The Shadow Of The Glen”, a dark comedy that nearly started a riot when first performed in Dublin in 1903, but also dramatic recitations of Synge’s poetry as well.