The Hairy Ape

Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape combines abstract movement, choreographed stage violence, shadow work, and performance art to tell the story of a brutish, unthinking, middle-aged laborer known as Yank, who tries to find a sense of belonging in a world more and more controlled by the rich. Yank is a man who is not only trapped by his social class, but also his acculturated understanding of masculinity. Because of this, he is unable to escape outside of the aggressive, emotionally armored, masculine… Show more male paradigm.
Wilder Nutting-Heath (director) is a trained marriage and family therapist and drama therapist who directed for the 2012 Seattle Fringe Festival and the successful adaptation of The Metamorphosis: Adapted from the Short Story by Franz Kafka for Ghost Light Theatricals' 2010-2011 season. He will utilize a mixture traditional directing techniques along with adapted therapeutic techniques to help the actors more deeply connect with themselves and their characters.

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