Men on Boats Play New Work Writers: Jacklyn Backhaus Overview Show Information Book Jacklyn Backhaus Category Play Number of Acts First Produced 2015 Genres Comedy, Historical/Biographical Settings Period, Multiple Settings, Simple/No Set Time & Place 1869, Summer, On Boats, Green River, Colorado River, Grand Canyon Cast Size medium Ideal for "Men on Boats" starts from the realization that we can never recreate exactly how it was. This play's perspective is that of a contemporary reader filtering accounts of another age through her.
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Men on Boats NYT Critic's Pick By Ben Brantley Aug. 4, 2016 The Clubbed Thumb Summerworks' production of "Men on Boats" played through the summer of 2015. Following are excerpts from Ben. MEN ON BOATS was produced in New York City in 2016 by Playwrights Horizons, Inc. (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) and Clubbed Thumb (Maria Striar, Producing Artistic Director; Sarah McLellan, Managing Director). 'Men on Boats' comedically collides adventure with gender roles April 11, 2022 Megan Greene (left) plays John Wesley Powell and Cristina Beltran plays Sumner in Jaclyn Backhaus' "Men on Boats." Photo by Gregory Justice for Virginia Tech. In Men On Boats, Jacklyn Backhaus' original, hilarious, and delightful adventure dramedy, the conquering men out to chronicle the land in service of America, God, and Manifest destiny, are given voice and movement by actors who are anything and everything but white and male, and the bravery, determination, foolishness, humanity, and true grit of.
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Men on Boats By Jacklyn Backhaus Directed by Beth Kattelman Setting On boats in 1869. Traversing the Green and Colorado Rivers from Wyoming to a Big Canyon on the government's first Sanctioned Expedition. The performance runs 95 minutes with a 15-minute intermission. Cast John Wesley Powell Eva Scherrer William Dunn Carlie Shearer 7:30PM - 9:30PM By Jacklyn Backhaus Directed by Beth Kattelman John Powell, geologist, Army soldier, and explorer of the American West, sets off with a crew of nine men in 1869 to explore and map the Colorado River and its canyons. 'Men on Boats' Where: Son of Semele Theater, 3301 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles When: 8 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays, 5 p.m. Sundays, 7 p.m. Tuesdays, through July 28 Tickets: $25 Info:. Men on Boats by Jaclyn Backhaus is a playful, contemporary retelling of the first government sanctioned expedition to the Grand Canyon in 1869. By casting actors who identify differently from the majority of people on the actual expedition (bluntly: straight white men), the play resurfaces the voices of those silenced throughout history.
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Men On Boats is the true (ish) history of an 1869 expedition, when a one-armed captain and crew of insane yet loyal volunteers set out to chart the course of the Colorado River. In this very modern take on a very old American adventure story, audiences and performers alike get a chance to question American history and who gets to tell the story. Men On Boats is the true (ish) history of an 1869 expedition, when a one-armed captain and a crew of insane yet loyal volunteers set out to chart the course of the Colorado River. This thrilling and widely acclaimed new play by Jaclyn Backhaus returns this summer for a limited engagement at Playwrights Horizons.
Four boats. One Grand Canyon. MEN ON BOATS is the true (ish) history of an 1869 expedition, when a one-armed captain and a crew of insane yet loyal volunteers set out to chart the course of the Colorado River. "…off-the-canyon-walls funny…" —Variety. " [MEN ON BOATS] is marvelously destabilizing both as history and theater. Men on Boats. October 3-6, 2019. McClintock Theatre. Summary. Spinning historical, theatrical and gender conventions on their heads, this subversive tale of 10 men, four boats and two rivers contains none of the above. Backhaus' deliciously original play is the true(ish) history of an 1869 expedition, when a one-armed captain and a crew of.
Questioning How We Tell Mainstream History with Men On Boats
Emma Wozniak Carlie Shearer as William Dunn, Eva Scherrer as John Wesley Powell, Hailee Franklin as Seneca Howland, Susan Kim as O.G. Howland in The Ohio State University Department of Theatre,. "Men on Boats," puts a number of twists on the traditional narrative surrounding Western explorers. The expedition was an all-male affair in 1869, but the productions of the play since its.
