“When you find that headlong, process-oriented passion in a theatrical collective, it’s gold at the end of the rainbow. The magic of company formation is too rare these days because it requires the kind of energetic input and long-horizon rehearsal that many art-makers cannot afford. Yet here we find more than a dozen of the city’s finest actors, each ceding space to the other, each investing every part of themselves.” - Helen Shaw, Vulture
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ENTANGLED: 12 SCENES INSIDE A CIRCLE K OFF THE I-40 IN NEW MEXICO
CONCEIVED BY SOCIETY/WRITTEN BY MONA MANSOUR & EMILY ZEMBA
PRODUCTION HISTORY
HERE ARTS CENTER (2026)
World premiere: ENTANGLED was presented in in April 2026. Director: Scott Illingworth. Set Design: Jacob Bers. Light & Projections Design: Lauren Nychelle. Costume Design: Sandrina Sparagna. Sound Design: Avi Amon. Dramaturg: Mehr Dudeja.
Cast: Brian Bock, Hiram Delgado, Christy Escobar, Annie Fox, Leslie Fray, Meredith Garretson, Rosa Gilmore, Caroline Grogan, Keren Lugo, Joshua David Robinson, Alex Templer, Shpend Xani.
On our way towards answers | SOCIETY Theater Company’s “Entangled: 12 Scenes in a Circle K off the I-40 in New Mexico”
by Joey Sims, Culture Bot.
Out in the vast New Mexico desert, strange things are happening at a Circle K gas station.
People are disappearing. Events are repeating themselves. Time itself seems to be shifting out of linear order.
Perhaps it’s something to do with the nearby Los Alamos laboratory, birthplace of the atomic bomb? Is this gas station a portal to the space time continuum? Or maybe the attendant, in struggling to make sense of his little world, has simply lost grip on reality?
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Beginning Days of true Jubilation
PRODUCTION HISTORY
New Ohio Theater (2022)
World premiere: BDOTJ was presented in repertory with Emily Zemba’s “The Strangers Came Today” in June 2022. Director: Scott Illingworth. Set Design: Brittany Vasta. Light Design: Abby Hoke-Brady. Costume Design: Karen Boyer. Sound Design: Carson Joenk. Video Design: Kario Marcel. Dramaturg: Christy Escobar. Cast: Brian Bock, Hana Chamoun, Jonathan Louis Dent, Christy Escobar, Annie Fox, Leslie Fray, Rosa Gilmore, Caroline Grogan, Dela Meskienyar, Jennifer Mogbock, Tim Nicolai, Alex Templer, Shayvawn Webster, Shpend Xani.
EXCERPT
THE CEO
You're so upset, you don't have faith. PEOPLE NEED TO HAVE FAITH. GALILEO HAD FAITH even though he didn’t believe in God. DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT.
A DOUBTER
I didn't say anything about faith.
THE CFO
Well, you're doubting. K? So let's see it. K?
THE DOUBTER
I’ve heard from people in the room. There are whispers. They say, they say, it works three times out of 20. That's not - that's not a good average. I'm just saying there's dreaming and there's a product, right? That's all.
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