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.

Gearing Up for 2008/09

Thanks to our patrons for supporting Oedipus at Colonus, touted by NYTheatre.com as “another feather in Handcart’s cap as the city’s most reliable and interesting presenter of contemporary renditions of classic theatre texts.” Our one-night benefit performance of W.B. Yeats’s Purgatory was another success, its sell-out box office returns laying the groundwork for an ambitious 2008/09 season that will include Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood as you’ve never seen it before. Watch for more details on this thrillingly crafted production, arriving in New York after years of development and acclaim at international theater festivals…

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