BROKEN THEATER
An AMOC* Production
Created and Directed by BOBBI JENE SMITH
Choreographed and Performed by:
JULIA EICHTEN
VINSON FRALEY*
JONATHAN FREDRICKSON*
KEIR GOGWILT
COLEMAN ITZKOFF
JESSE KOVARSKY*
OR SCHRAIBER
BOBBI JENE SMITH
MOUNA SOUALEM*
STEPHANIE TROYAK*
JOHN TORRES, Lighting Designer
CHRISTOPHER GILMORE, Associate Lighting Designer
CATH BRITTAN AND REBECCA SIGEL, AMOC* Producers
VICTORIA BEK, Costume Designer
Bobbi Jene Smith’s Broken Theater melds live dance-theater, music, and cinematic beauty. Twelve artists meet in a ghost theater where they grapple with love, humiliation, and loss at the cost of each other. When the script has disappeared, when the audience is gone, where are the lines between the part you play and the person you are?
Co-commissioned by La MaMa, Mass MoCA, AMOC*, and New Dialect.
*denotes special guest artist
Premiered at Carolina Performing Arts, UNC Chapel Hill, NC, November 2022
Performed at Oz Arts, Nashville, TN, November 2022
Production images by Derrick Belcham, Anna Maynard, and Tiffany Bessire
“...impressive...fearless”
The New York Times on Smith's Lost Mountain