“…if my mother married someone like you, someone who was in the Royal Society someone who thought like I thought, then I think I would have been happier.”
Performances 9/1 – 9/17. More details here.
To understand light and optics better, young Isaac Newton inserted a long needle “between my eye and the bone, as near to the backside of my eye as I could.” Why take such a risk? Lucas Hnath reimagines the contentious, plague-ravaged world Newton inhabited in “Isaac’s Eye,” exploring the dreams and longings that drove the rural farm boy to become one of the greatest thinkers in modern science.
“Mr. Hnath wins a whole mess of points for originality… [an] odd little jeu d’esprit… [A] quirky sendup of fusty historical dramas… Philosophically potent…”
— The New York Times
“Few plays are anywhere near as clever… The talented Hnath creates a disorienting, ironic atmosphere, a kind of Rushmore plus calculus.”
— Time Out New York
“No one can know for sure what motivated Newton to become the person he did… But [Hnath] does a credible job in providing a context for a brilliant but troubled young man who made incredible contributions to scientific knowledge — at significant cost to himself.”
— CurtainUp.Com
Reagan Tankersley (Isaac Newton)
Reagan Tankersley is a performer, voice actor, teaching artist, and a five-year resident of Astoria, Queens. He has just completed a tour with Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (Romeo + Juliet, Capulet/Friar Lawrence), and is excited to wrap up Book 10 of the Harley Cole Mystery Series with Lukeman Literary, available anywhere you get your audiobooks.
Kasey O’Brien (Catherine)
Kasey O’Brien’s Selected Chicago credits include: Much Ado About Nothing(Beatrice), Macbeth(2nd Witch), Summer and Smoke(Alma), That Pretty Pretty; or, The Rape Play(Valerie), The Hyacinth Macaw(Susannah), and an all-female stage adaptation of Reservoir Dogs(White).
Selected New York credits include Balm in Gilead(Ann), Cowboy Mouth(Cavale), Titus Andronicus(Marcus/Demetrius) and The Maids(Solange) here at The Garret. Film credits include Jim Shoe, Paranoia, Clean, and The Mockingbird. Kasey is also an award-winning filmmaker herself whose short films Secret Service and The Pageant have played in festivals around the world. She currently serves as the Program and Outreach Coordinator for PANO. MFA from The New School. Keep art live and local!
https://www.kaseyobriennyc.com
IG: @kaseyobs
Isto Barton (Robert Hooke)
Moving from Austin – just before the pandemic – he was a company member of the Shakespeare at Winedale (Hamlet, MacBeth, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Henry VI 1-3) and Sh*tfaced Shakespeare (Midsummer, Much Ado) repertories… and held various other non-modern productions where he also played women (Charley’s Aunt, Mucedorus). Over the pandemic he started a YouTube Live art project (@storytimewithisto) exploring tarot, mixology, and folk tales, which is ongoing – Join him!
IG: @istofacto
Jack Dryden (Actor/Dying Man Named Sam, Director))
Jack is a director and actor from Saint Louis, Missouri. Previous directing work: The Turn of the Screw (Brown/Trinity Rep, AS220), Red (Encore Theatre Group), and I Wrote You a Play Called I Love You (Public House Theater). Favorite acting roles include Algernon (Importance of Being Earnest), George (Our Town), Mozart (Amadeus), Slim (Cowboy Mouth), Prior Walter (Angels in America), and Duke Orsino (Twelfth Night).
MFA: Brown/Trinity Rep.
Hannah Adrian (Assistant Director)
Credits: Oliver; Balm in Gilead; 10,000 Moore (The New School) Young Gods (Performing Garage) Hamlet (Present Company Theater) Macbeth (The Offshoot) Henry IV Pt. 1; Two Gentlemen of Verona (Something for Nothing) Mr. Marmalade (The Broccoli Project) Dead Man’s Cell Phone; Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet (Foot in the Door) TV: American Dynasty (Fox) www.hannahadrian.com
IG: @hannahadrian
Annie Sheehy (Stage Manager)
Annie is a Manhattan-based stage manager originally from Lexington, KY
Previous credits include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Christmas Story, and Machinal. This is her first production with The Garret and if she does her job well, much like ether, you won’t see her 🙂
IG: @a_sheehy98
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