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EVERYMAN REVISITED:
SOCIAL ISSUES IN TODAY’S WORLD (BOSTON)

A staged reading

Directed by Rosalind Thomas-Clark
Music composed by Allyssa Jones
Choreography by Fernadina Chan
with Jade Guerra, Elyas Harris, Victoria Marsh, and Josh Santora

TC Squared worked with middle and high school, community and senior actors on this professional production. The text, adapted by TC Squared, was based on the National Theatre London adaptation by Carol Ann Duffy. We performed at the Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Josiah Quincy Upper School, and Lena Park CDC, Dorchester.

 

The story

The text was adapted for 2016 in Boston, USA. It is funny and funky and features cool contemporary music as well as rap.

GOD looks at this messed up world of 2016 and She decides it’s time for a reckoning with MAN – and that means EVERYMAN, which means US! She calls her Messenger DEATH and tells him to bring EVERYMAN to meet Her and announce his good deeds.

EVERYMAN is trashed at his 40th birthday party when he meets DEATH and falls off the balcony of his Boston penthouse apartment. As he falls to his death, he tries desperately to find someone in his egocentric and selfish life who will be able to tell GOD about his good deeds. But he doesn’t seem to have done anything good so far! Nobody will help him, and they all refuse to come with him to die. Bad luck! However, since they are all a part of EVERYMAN they actually have no choice but to die with him.

KNOWLEDGE finally shows EVERYMAN the way to finding his soul, and God accepts him in death as a good guy who has repented. DEATH, snubbed by EVERYMAN, is furious, and there is a twist for the audience at the end of the play.

Youth groups involved in the production came from Josiah Quincy Upper School, Lena Park Community Arts Workshop, Another Course to College, and Boston Arts Academy. 

EVERYMAN REVISITED:
SOCIAL ISSUES IN TODAY’S WORLD (MIAMI)

A staged reading

Directed by Rosalind Thomas-Clark
Music composed by Allyssa Jones
Choreography by Shaneeka Harrel
with Elyas Harris, Milia Nicoli, Josh Santora, and Karen Stephens

The Miami Theater Center invited TC2 to conduct a residency in July 2016. 2 of our Boston actors and 3 Miami actors came together to perform the piece with 12 high school teenagers from local schools. Through improvised exercises and some rewriting of the text, we developed the original piece. We even included aerial skills, working with a circus trainer.