The Brooklyn Rail

Alternating Currents: Visiting Electchester with Adam Kraar

By Ed Cardona Jr

Electchester. Yup, until recently I had never heard of it either, but that is about to change. Five Boroughs/One City, a theatrical and community engagement initiative launched in the fall of 2014 by The Working Theater, continues its journey this season through the five boroughs of New York City with “Alternating Currents

In Dialogue

THE DEFIANT POLITICS OF COLLECTIVITY: The Assembly’s SEAGULLMACHINE

By Adam R. Burnett

In July of 2011 I attended a production called HOME/SICK at the old Collapsable Hole in Williamsburg. It was sweltering hot, the humidity was unbearable, and in the hallucinogenic haze of heat, I was enraptured by the lucid storytelling and clean, but dangerous, theatricality of The Assembly. I was hooked and have continued to follow their work over the years.