In the fourth and final episode of the Civilians’ marriage series — recorded live at Joe’s Pub in NYC — Greg McFadden and Brad Heberlee play a couple who celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary by traveling cross-country and exchanging vows in every state that recognizes legal marriage. Also, Susannah Flood and Daoud Heidami present complementary monologues. Finally, Brian Charles Rooney, Annalisa Ledson, Christine Perotta and Erato Kremmyda perform “In Vegas,” a song about a Nevada wedding chapel, written by Erato A. Kremmyda and Maggie-Kate Coleman. Joel Glassman and Talya Klein conducted the interviews for the material in this podcast.
Special thanks to all who helped with this project, including Darien Battle, Nora Sørena Casey, Molly Coogan, Ian Daniel, Meredith Domalakes, Gibson Frazier, Joel Glassman, Donnetta Grays, Laura Hedli, Amina Henry, Michelle Jalowski, Alexandra Keegan, Talya Klein, Leicester Landon, Calane Schafer, Jessica Watkins and Colleen Werthmann.
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The Civilians is a company that creates new theater from creative investigations into the most vital questions of the present. Through a number of artistic programs, the Civilians advances theater as an engine of artistic innovation and strengthens the connections between theater and society. An artist-led company, the Civilians creates and produces new theater and pursues its artistic mission through programs serving artists and the public. The company’s work is grounded in investigative theater, an artistic practice rooted in the process of creative inquiry that brings artists into dynamic engagement with the subject of their work. Artists look outward in pursuit of a question, often engaging with individuals and communities in order to listen, make discoveries, and challenge habitual ways of knowing. The ethos of investigative theater extends into production, inviting audiences to be active participants in the inquiry before, during, and after the performance. Since its founding in 2001, the Obie Award-winning company has supported the creation of 14 original shows, and its work has been produced at many theaters in New York, nationally, and internationally. Last season saw two highly successful shows: "Mr. Burns: a Post-Electric Play" at Playwrights Horizons, which was included in eight Top 10 of 2013 Lists, and "The Great Immensity" at The Public Theater. The Civilians’ work has been published by Dramatists Play Service, Oberon Books, Ghostlight Records and Playscripts, Inc.