Chickens in the Yard is the inaugural production of The Gerri Kay New Voices Program, through which Quantum supports and mentors developing artists. We have welcomed the Hatch Arts Collective (director Adil Mansoor, writer Paul Kruse, and producer Nicole Shero) into the Quantum laboratory to create this innovative play, and are pleased to introduce these artists to our supportive audience. Chickens in the Yard offers a Rubiks Cube of lonely individuals and fragile couples, whose subtle dynamics gel into surprising strength as an unconventional family.
There’s wisdom and warmth in the coop they’ve built in beautiful Javo Studios in Lawrenceville, with designers Britton Mauk, Patrick Hayes, Jenn Gooch, and David Bielewicz.
SHOWTIMES
November 20 – December 6, 2015
Javo Studios
This performance has passed.
Cast Members
Laurie Klatscher
Lucille Two; Joyce
Siovhan Christensen
Anne Hutchinson; Abby
Joseph McGranaghan
Bruce Lee; John
Alec Silberblatt
Eleanor Roosevelt; Tom
Hatch Arts Collective, founded in 2012, Hatch Arts Collective is a multidisciplinary theater organization based in Pittsburgh, PA. Hatch gathers artist communities to create performance and media-based work.
Hatch’s first production, Chickens in the Yard, premiered in June 2013. Hatch also produced two collaborative theater-making intensives and Walldogs, an evening-length play which premiered in August 2014.
Up next: Driftless, set to premiere in August 2016 at the New Hazlett Theater. Driftless will deal with the very complex issue of fracking in Western Pennsylvania.
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Pittsburgh City Paper - Actors play a family — and its chickens — in a challenging new play. It’s fair to say of the past 25 years that there is…
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - “Chickens in the Yard” unfolds as a quietly observed turning point in the lives of four interconnected people. And there are chickens present. The play, by the…
Tribune-Review - According to playwright Paul Kruse, individual chickens are not nearly as successful on their own as they are when they are part of a flock. After seeing Quantum…
The Pittsburgh Tatler - The Pittsburgh abode that is the setting of Paul Kruse’s new play Chickens in the Yard is home to a new sort of extended, nontraditional family: sixty-something year-old Joyce (Laurie…
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - A trio of young theater artists known as the Hatch Arts Collective created the play “Chickens in the Yard” in 2012 that had a brief standing room-only…
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