Hope’s Exit
HOPE’S EXIT was originally commissioned by Target Margin for its 2016 Lab and began with a contemporary exploration of Eugene O’Neill’s classic play THE ICEMAN COMETH. Designated Movement Company’s new production tells the story of fourteen sad-sack patrons of a New York City bar await the arrival of salesman and drinking buddy Hickey.
In this highly choreographed deconstruction of Act III of Eugene O’Neill’s THE ICEMAN COMETH, this “anesthetized hallucination” juxtaposes internalized psychodrama with externalized contemporary femininity. What does it mean to come together only to collectively fall apart?
HOPE’S EXIT
Lead Artist, Choreography & Co-Direction by Katie Rose McLaughlin
Co-direction by Dan O’Neil
Dramaturgy by Joshua William Gelb
Featuring performances by Emily Craver, Emily Pacilio, Victoria Roberts-Wierzbowski, Mary Kate Sickel, and Kaitlyn Gillilan
Commissioned and presented by the 2016 Target Margin Lab at HERE Arts Center and subsequently performed at the Exponential Festival in 2017
Check out the NYT Critic’s Pick Review: Cheering Up Eugene O’Neill With Song, Dance and Puppets