The Barbarians (2020)

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At LaMama, February 14 - March 2

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DESCRIPTION
Countries are made of laws, and laws are made of words. So are plays. How strange.

“The Barbarians” is an imaginative, word-drunk romp through that strangeness, a play about a description of a play about a group of scientists gumming up the linkage between language and political power (much to Madam President Fake President’s chagrin). The Barbarians nestles in the valley between the word and the world, the declaration of war and the war itself — what if the President declared a war, but the words wouldn’t work?

“Only increasing in nauseating resonance by the day”
- Vulture (one of “18 Plays and Musicals [they] Can’t Wait to See”)

Written by Jerry Lieblich
Directed by Paul Lazar
Cast: Chloe Claudel; Jess Barbagallo*; Anne Gridley; Jennifer Ikeda*; Steve Mellor*; Naren Weiss*
*Equity Approved Showcase
PSM: Carter White
PM/TD: Eric Nightengale
Scenic Designer: Amy Rubin
Costume Designer: Suzanne Bocanegra
Lighting Designer: Joe Levasseur
Sound Designer: Johnny Gasper
Video Designer: CultureHub
Props/Asst. Scenic Designer: Forest Entsminger
Asst. Costume/ASM: Eva Rubin
Graphic Designer: June Buck
PR: Girlie Action
Producer: Leigh Honigman
Associate Producers: Matthew Antoci, McKenna Harrington

DEVELOPMENT HISTORY
Dixon Place, NYC - Workshop Production, June 2018
Directed by: Paul Lazar
Featuring: Craig Wesley Divino, Anne Gridley, Sharina Martin, Steve Mellor, Bhavesh Patel, Jenny Seastone, Geoff Sobelle, Stacey Yen

PRELUDE Festival, NYC - Excerpt Presentation, October 2017
Directed by: Paul Lazar
Featuring: Lizzie Fox, Zoe Geltman, Anne Gridley Matt Korahais, Ying Li

New York Theater Workshop, NYC - Reading, October 2017
Directed by: Paul Lazar
Featuring: Eliza Bent, Lizzie Fox, Anne Gridley, Toussaint Jeanlouis, Matt Korahais, Annie McNamara, Ying Li, and Scott Shepherd

Uncanny Valley, NYC - Reading, June 2017
Directed by: Jerry Lieblich
Featuring: Janice Amaya, Kate Benson, Brooke Bloom, Lizzie Fox, Zoe Geltman, Toussaint Jeanlouis, Ying Li, and Derek Smith