Handcart Ensemble

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet Paul Muldoon on Handcart’s The Burial at Thebes

“I simply can’t imagine a better production of The Burial at Thebes. Handcart Ensemble is a spectacularly gifted group, absolutely equal to the subtleties of Heaney’s text. I’ll go anywhere to see anything they do.” —Paul Muldoon

© 1999 Justin Kunz

Andromaque

By Jean Racine

Translated and directed by J. Scott Reynolds

Unchecked passions descend into treachery and murder in this new Alexandrine verse translation of the French classic.

There were 13 performances August 4 - 14, 1999, at Red Room @ KGB — selling out the final weekend’s performances.

Julie Halpern of Off-Off Broadway Review raved about this “ambitious young company”:

“Handcart Ensemble exemplifies the spirit of Off-Off-Broadway, producing exciting theatre on a shoestring budget.”

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The Cast

Corey Bonvillain
Tatiana Bryan
Michael Burns
Mireille Enos
Steven Gridley
Meredith Higbee
Michael McCurdy
Barrett Ogden

The Crew
Director J. Scott Reynolds
Stage Manager Jen Kunz
Costumes Johnny Davies
Lighting Brad Nelson

About Us

Old Wine in New Bottles

Handcart Ensemble produces new adaptations, new translations, and new works for the theater, drawing primarily from classical sources. Read our mission statement for more information.

Handcart's Horizon

Watch here for details on productions planned for the coming year and seasons, which include a reading of Racine's Iphigenia in a glorious new translation by poet Rachel Hadas, a full production of Homer's Odyssey as adapted by poet Simon Armitage, and a startlingly orginal version of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood (for which a teaser will appear in our December benefit of A Child's Christmas in Wales: Stories and Poems by Dylan Thomas); all from a company described as "the city’s most reliable and interesting presenter of contemporary renditions of classic theatre texts (NYTheatre.com)."

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