A SONG OF SONGS
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March 10 - April 3, 2022
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A SONG OF SONGS » March 10 - April 3, 2022 »
Presented by The Bushwick Starr and Jeremy O. Harris in partnership with El Puente and in association with Clubbed Thumb
Written by Agnes Borinsky, Directed by Machel Ross
A Song of Songs unpacks and remixes the Biblical poem, treating it as a jumping off place for thinking about love, erotics, collectivity, and justice. Two femmes find themselves in a charged romantic relationship: I love you. I don’t believe you. Ah well. When one takes an unexpected journey to the underworld, the other is left wondering what they might have missed. Meanwhile, a third challenges them both to crack open their love and let it spill out into the world. A Song of Songs is being created at and in community with El Puente. For a play about love, power, care, and justice, process and product are inextricably linked. Performances will be part performance, part ritual, featuring song, refreshments, and visual art.
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Sekai Abeni
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Agnes Borinsky
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Ching Valdes-Aran
CHING VALDES-ARAN is an award-winning theater artist who resides in NYC.
Selected Roles: Aying (OBIE Award, Flipzoids, Ma-Yi Theatre), Imelda Marcos (Lucille Lortel nomination, Dogeaters, Public Theatre), Lady Macbeth, Lady Capulet, Duke Senior (NYSF “Shakespeare on Broadway”, Belasco Theatre), Medea (Medea, Pan Asian Repertory), Bernarda Alba (The House of Bernarda Alba, Naatco), Clytemnestra (Iphigenia in Aulis, Yale Rep), Athena (Iphigenia in Taurus (La Mama E.T.C. & Greek Int’l Festival), Empress Tzushi (Empress of China, Cincinnati Playhouse), Philoktetes (John Jesurun’s, Berliner Fiespiele)
Other Awards: 2021 Ruthie Award, Fox Foundation Fellow, Asian Cultural Council Fellowship, New Dramatist’s Charles Bowden Award, Ma-Yi Award for Artistic Excellence, MAP grantee (Foundry), U.S. Congressional Award for Arts & Culture, others.
Selected Films & TV: Missing Link (Golden Globe, 6 Oscar nomination), Mula Kung Ano And Noon, What it was Before ( Palm de Oro, Locarno Film Festival ), Across the Universe., Sex & The City 1, Blacklist, Others.
Most recently, she was in an all Asian cast of Sam Shepard’s True West directed by MeAnnTeo w/ Actor Center members, Sanjit de Silva & Ron Domingo and west coast actor Greg Watanabe at People’s Light Theater.
She continues her intermittent national and international tour of Geoff Sobelle’s HOME that premiered at BAM in 2017-2024.
Scenic & Lighting Designer Frank Oliva, Costume Designer Machel Ross, Prop Designer Patricia Marjorie, Sound Designer Nazareth Hassan, Sound Co-Design/A1 Sheldon Bennett, Muralista Co-Conspirators Joe Matunis & Vera Weinfield, Composer Joseph White, Stage Manager Gineiris Garcia, Company Manager Jana Lynne Umipig, Associate Director Federica Borlenghi, Production Manager Itzel Ayala, Technical Director Jay Maury and Creative Producer John Del Gaudio
This project received development at Hubbard Hall in Cambridge, NY through a new partnership with The Bushwick Starr.