Theater in Asylum presents

A night of performance to survive, resist, and reverse the end of the world.

The How to Survive the End of the World Cabaret

November 1-2, 2024
The Jalopy Theater, Brooklyn

Featuring new work by

Theater in Asylum

The Anthropologists

Adin Lenahan

Melissa Mowry

with music by Ali Dineen

From climate destruction and endless war to rising threats of dictatorship and a looming takeover by A.I. — the list of things that threaten to end the world seem to grow daily. Join Theater in Asylum and guest artists for an evening of short works to help us survive, resist, and reverse the “end of the world” right before Election Day.
Photos by Shubhra Mishra

The Team

phoenix: a ritual for the end of time
  • Written & Directed by Melissa Mowry, in collaboration with Marcella Adams, Titania Galliher, and Jessica Panora
  • Performed by Marcella Adams and Titania Galliher

Andrew Lloyd Water
The Anthropologists’ A Village
  • Written & Directed by Jayda Jones
  • Performed by Asha John, Jalissa Fulton, and Brianna Johnson

FAUST: Brooklyn, 2024.
Music by Ali Dineen, Rashad Brown, and Chris Schroth

Lighting & production design by Dan Stearns
Marketing by Charlotte Dow
Box office support by Diana Zuluaga
Photography by Shubhra Mishra
Cooking by Rick Fudge

The Prompt

Each artist was given the following prompt:

Create a short theater piece that takes on a potential world-ender and how to survive it.

So we ask you:
  • What do you see? Hear? Experience?
  • How does it make you feel?
  • How do we survive?

Theater in Asylum was founded in 2010 to challenge and empower our community. We joyfully pursue rigorous research and ensemble-driven theater-making to investigate our past, interpret our present, and imagine our future. We prize space to process, space to question—asylum—for ourselves and our community. Thank you for being here and for being a part of the process. theaterinasylum.com

Thank you to Lynette, Talia, and everyone at the Jalopy Theater for having us here tonight!

Budget Transparency

This cabaret cost: $6,177
  • People: $3,500 (all collaborators except TIA staff paid $175; TIA staff are paid $1,200 annually for all TIA work and do not receive project stipends)
  • Space (the room you’re sitting in, plus rehearsal space): $500
  • Production (sets, costumes, transportation, hospitality for the team*): $1,883
  • Contingency (the “OMG I forgot ____!” and “Oops I broke ___!” fund): $294
*TIA offers snacks whenever folks are called for 3 hours or more, and a meal when it’s 6 hours or more.

Tickets to this event were offered on a sliding scale, $0-$35.

Tonight is funded by tickets, donations, and public funding. So THANK YOU for paying your taxes, encouraging your representatives to support the arts, and being here tonight.
The How to Survive The End of the World Cabaret is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).
“Hope is the embrace of the unknown and the unknowable, an alternative to the certainty of both the optimists and pessimists. It’s the belief that what we do matters even though how and when it may matter, who and why it may impact, are not things we can know beforehand.”
- Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark