Anna Karenina Lives! By Germaine Shames
Estola Productions at The Under St. Marks Theatre
New York, New York
May 9-12, 2019
Defying patriarchy's grip on nineteenth-century literature, Sophia Tolstoy abandons her deathbed to join forces with a young Mae West on a mission impossible: to save the life of Anna Karenina. Featuring songs like "I'm No Angel" and "Everybody Shimmies Now," this short play with music romps through time and space, following an unlikely duo with an unlikely task.
Up Above & All Around by Brigette Estola
NY Summerfest at The Hudson Guild Theatre
New York, New York
July 18, 22, 23 2017
Isolated in a poetic maze of grief, Andromeda practically lives on the roof of her Brooklyn apartment. She attempts to escape by connecting with two men in her building, but as the words get louder Andromeda must fight to end the poem before she’s lost in it forever. Up Above & All Around celebrates recovery and finding the words yourself.
Danny & the Deep Blue Sea by John Patrick Shanley with His Hers Mine Yours by Brigette Estola
Coastline Theatre at The Alchemist
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
May 13-15, 20-22 2016
A two part event: John Patrick Shanley's Danny & the Deep Blue Sea serves as Act One, a tragic story of two aggressive and suffering souls meeting in a bar. After spending an evening together, opening up and imagining a different life, they eventually wake up to face reality. Act Two is a world-premiere piece by Brigette Estola, watching an observant and irritated woman stuck on the subway. As various fantastical worlds take over her subway car, she is forced her to investigate her womanhood and reckon with her relationship to the world as a female.
Fighting Words by Sunil Kuruvilla
Bohemian Productions at AM Galleries
Ludington, Michigan
July 18-20 2014
In 1980, real life Welsh boxer Johnny Owen traveled to Las Vegas to compete for the World Bantamweight championship title. The play follows three fictional women, all very close to and with strong feelings about Johnny, in the days leading up to and the days after Johnny’s dramatic fight. The women confess their true feelings and dreams as the tempers, tension and stakes continue to rise. "A transporting tale...the play makes a complete round trip in record time- from life to art, then back to life."
