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Knives in Hens

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Overview

Produced by:
The Shop
Dates:
October 19 - November 12, 2017
Run Time:
0 Hour, 0 Minute
Intermission:
No
Theater:
Showing in Theater

Show Info

By David Harrower
Directed by Paul Takacs

With Devin E. Haqq, Robyn Kerr, and Shane Taylor

In a rural world, poised on the cusp of transformation, the fates of a young woman, her plowman husband, and the local miller collide in a quest for knowledge, agency, and freedom. The Shop (I am the WindTender Napalm) return to 59E59 Theaters bringing David Harrower's "astonishing" (The Telegraph), seminal work to New York for the first time. Exploring one woman's journey to find herself, it unpacks the subtle power of words and ideas to liberate, empower, and lift the mind and soul. 

Devin E.
Haqq
Robyn
Kerr
Shane
Taylor
Photo Caption: Robyn Kerr and Devin E. Haqq in KNIVES IN HENS
Photo: Carol Rosegg
Photo Caption: Robyn Kerr and Devin E. Haqq in KNIVES IN HENS
Photo: Carol Roseg
Photo Caption: Shane Taylor and Robyn Kerr in KNIVES IN HENS
Photo: Carol Rosegg
Photo Caption: Devin E. Haqq, Robyn Kerr, and Shane Taylor in KNIVES IN HENS
Photo: Carol Rosegg
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Producing Company

The Shop

The Shop is committed to presenting challenging work that is new or new to this country. The inherent values of The Shop’s productions are that they are compelling on a visceral level, exploring the complexity of what it is to be human through richly-drawn characters in extraordinary circumstances, voiced through powerfully-engaging language. Additionally, The Shop’s plays are intentionally situated within intimate-sized theaters so that audiences’ feel for and with the characters, thereby creating mutually powerful, active experiences in every production.

Read more at: http://www.theshoptheatre.org


Reviews

"A simple story that vibrates with ever-widening resonance and implications... profoundly moving.... played with a mesmerizing mix of rawness and delicacy by Robyn Kerr.” - The New York Times Critic's Pick

"The play truly belongs to Robyn Kerr, who beautifully captures the transformation of Young Woman from a state of child-like innocence to one of self-determination.” - Talkin Broadway

“Powerful and insistently poetic” - FrontMezzJunkies