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Whistler in the Dark Theatre produces highly theatrical and physically inventive plays that question and challenge our assumptions about the world in which we live and the rules we live by. Whistler strives to develop an ensemble of theatrical artists and audiences dedicated to exploring plays that celebrate the imagination through linguistic acrobatics and a stripping away of extraneous trappings. We hope to provoke the senses by focusing...
Whistler in the Dark Theatre produces highly theatrical and physically inventive plays that question and challenge our assumptions about the world in which we live and the rules we live by. Whistler strives to develop an ensemble of theatrical artists and audiences dedicated to exploring plays that celebrate the imagination through linguistic acrobatics and a stripping away of extraneous trappings. We hope to provoke the senses by focusing on the primacy of the actor in space.
created by the Ensemble
directed by Bridget Kathleen O'Leary
written by Tyler Monroe
“We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves.
But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.”
~Joseph Campbell
Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker “A play is a world in itself, a tiny colony we could almost say.
And you are in charge of it. That is a great responsibility.” Australia 1789. Eight months by ship from England, the British penal colony at Sydney is struggling to find its way. In a new world that...
A play with music. A play about witches, with no witches in it.
In the 17th century, as now, those living on the fringes of society survive through the mercy and forbearance of their neighbors. In a rural village, that fragile balance is disturbed, and the arrival of a renowned witch-finder provides the community with a focus for its...
After the fall of Troy, the women of the city endure together. Stuck in camps, they await their fates. In this world between atrocities, their only interruptions arrive as news briefings from a messenger who swiftly comes and goes. As they wait, bombarded with devastation and trapped by their husbands’ war, we see what it means to...