The Hang
Meredith Lynsey Schade, Lead Producer & Producing Director, HERE Arts Center
The Hang is a ritual celebration of queerness, questions, and the eternity of a moment. Rooted in the jazz tradition and operatic form, it imagines the final hours of the life of Socrates, as he asks his friends to use every moment left to think on virtue. What transpires is a centuries-long communal consideration, full of jazz, dance, debates, and queer romps.
FEATURING PERFORMERS
Taylor Mac
Kenneth Ard
El Beh
Ryan Chittaphong
Kat Edmonson
Queen Esther
Wesley Garlington
Synead Cidney Nichols
Trebien Pollard
FEATURING MUSICIANS
Matt Ray
Jonathan Beshay
Greg Glassman
J. Walter Hawkes
Jessica Lurie
Joel Mateo
Lisa Parrott
Gary Wang
Originally commissioned, developed and produced by HERE Arts Center with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's National Playwright Residency Program.
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Taylor Mac’s ‘Fever Dream’: Exploring the Philosophy of the Hang
— Jennifer Schuessler
“The Hang feels like a celebration of theater itself — a paean to collaboration and company, to rampant beauty and to the necessary balm of gathering together….It’s a ritual of splendor and an exaltation of queerness. The Hang is a show that speaks to the restlessness and longing of this moment, and offers comfort in sensuous pleasure. At a time of loneliness and anxiety, it extols and exemplifies one of theater’s greatest virtues — communion."
— Laura Collins-Hughes, The New York Times
