Our Next Book Club Pick and TIA Friends on Stage!

Announcing Our Next Book Club Pick:
Doppelganger by Naomi Klein
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
7pm ET on Zoom

The 2024 edition of the Theater in Asylum Book Club is off to a strong start! On January 31st, we hosted an excellent discussion of Rebecca Solnit's Hope in the Dark with friends of TIA from all across the country. Huge thanks to everyone who joined us!

The next book club pick will be Doppelganger by Naomi Klein, an exploration of the misinformation and conspiracies that thrive online in our increasingly polarized world. RSVP here to join our discussion on May 15th. If you'd like to purchase a copy of the book, we encourage you to do so through our Bookshop.org shop, which will help support the company (as well as independent bookstores!). Happy reading!

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See Friends of TIA on Stage in NYC!

Several friends of TIA are premiering new works in NYC and we cannot wait to see these talented folks hit the stage! Check out the following shows over the next few weeks:

axes, herbs and satchels
Created by The Anthropologists
February 25th - 27th
Episcopal Actors’ Guild Hall
1 East 29th Street
New York, NY 10016
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Rooted in the history and embodied wisdom of doulas and midwives, axes, herbs and satchels is a celebration of traditional knowledge held in the Black birth worker community and a potent examination of maternal mortality.

The United States has a maternal mortality rate that is three times higher than any other high-income country. Black and Indigenous birthing people are particularly at risk, with death rates up to three times more likely than their white counterparts. Modern medicine may be at our fingertips, but did it come at the cost of losing the ancient practices of doulas and midwives?

The play is being devised from an array of research materials; first hand accounts, medical textbooks, ethnological research, and primary sources documenting granny midwives and the history of midwifery.

Need a show buddy? The TIA team will be attending the show on Sunday, February 25th!

Three Scenes in The Life of a Trotskyist
by Andy Boyd
Directed by Jake Beckhard
February 22nd - March 17th
The Tank
312 W. 36th Street
New York, NY 10018
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Told in three scenes over the course of forty years, Three Scenes in the Life of a Trotskyist traces the story of Lev Trachtenberg from idealist youth to contrarian middle age to hard-core reactionary old age. Lev is a prototypical New York intellectual: educated at City College and in left-wing movements, he makes his reputation writing for small magazines and teaching modernist literature. He falls out of step with the Left during the culture wars of the 1960s, and by the election of Reagan he has embraced the Right with a convert's zeal. Three Scenes is a play about politics, literature, and the corrosive power of success in America.

We'll be attending the 7pm performance on March 9th. Join us to cheer on friends of TIA Andy Boyd, Jake Beckhard and Charlotte Dow!

Rager
Written by and Directed by Willie Johnson
Presented as part of the Chain Theatre's Winter One Act Festival
February 15th @ 8:30PM (also livestreamed) & February 20th @ 6:30PM
Chain Theatre
4th Floor
312 W 36 St 4th Floor
New York, NY 10018
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Friend of TIA Willie Johnson's latest one act play Rager runs at the Chain Theatre this February as part of their Winter One Act Festival! Rager is a short play examining sibling relationships and the miseries of adolescence and runs alongside I Am Here by Lindsay Ross in Program #20. The performance will also be livestreamed on February 15th for folks who can't make it to NYC.

We'll be cheering Willie on at the February 20th performance — feel free to join!