The Ruins
By Mae Philippe-Auguste
Cast
Caleb - Liam Abate
Moss - Luigi Andrade
Hope - Keira Carvin
Grace - Helena Frances
Mike - Edunn Levy
Fern - Mikaela Phillips
Stage Directions - Charise Pisani
Creative Team
Playwright - Mae Philippe-Auguste
Director - Shira Holtz
Stage Manager - John Yankanich
On-site Producer - Eden Taylor
Performance Dates:
November 10th at 7:30pm - Pay-What-You-Will Preview Performance
November 15th at 1pm - Regular Performance
November 15th at 5pm - Regular Performance
Venue Information:
All performances will take place at The Studio in The Attic at The Tank
312 West 36th Street, 6th Floor, Manhattan, NY
This venue is accessible by elevator and all performances will be livestreamed!
About The Ruins:
After the climate disaster has led to the wealthy colonizing Mars, the working class are left to fend for themselves on a post-apocalyptic Earth. With most of the human population dead, a small number of survivors are left scattered in the remains of the Earth: The Ruins.
After struggling for too long, a small community of survivors is planning to trip on psilocybin mushrooms before ending their own lives, but their plan is interrupted when an outsider arrives. Can she convince them to stay, to rebuild and start again? Or will she join them?
The Ruins explores living in the results of the climate crisis and the cost to humanity that comes with that, as well as some things that will never change: the grief when you lose a loved one, struggles with mental illness, forming community with those you’ve found, and the yearning to do better, to make a better world than those who came before you.
Content Notice:
Effects of climate disaster, drug use, suicide by poison, implied depression and other mental illnesses, ableist language, violence, murder, intimate partner manipulation and violence, discussion of: suicide, infanticide, grief, loss, sexual violence, religious motifs and trauma.