Transgression
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Written by Terry Curtis Fox and directed by Avra Fox Lerner
What do you do with your heart when an artist you love does something terrible?
After her husband dies in 2011, a great photographer’s widow goes through his studio in preparation for a major bequest/retrospective of his work. While doing so, she comes across a portfolio she has never seen – containing what she and the museum know reveals an emotional intensity absent from all his other work. These photos, taken in 1970, also happen to be nudes of an underaged woman that are very sexual. When the subject, now grown, becomes aware of them, she demands that they be destroyed. Forced to wrestle with the question of what you do with art that is both important and itself a violation, the widow must reconsider her life and marriage.
Content Advisory: This production contains flashing lights, nudity, depicts/discusses sexual activity with a minor, includes simulated drug use, and suggests video voyeurism.
CREATIVE TEAM
Ander Agudo – Sound Design
Susan Bennett – Actor *
Yuval Boim – Actor *
Jane Ives – Actor *
James Jelkin – Actor *
Judy Lewis Ockler – Intimacy Director
Lauren Parrish – Light Designer
Kate Rance – Scenic Design
Ivy Rose – Actor *
SJ Reynolds – Prop Design
Annie Simon – Costume Designer
* Member Actor’s Equity
Important Note: Our website will be down on July 9 as we transition to a new ticketing system to serve you better. During this time, please contact our box office directly at tickets@here.org for any ticket needs. Thank you for your patience — we can’t wait to welcome you to the theater!
Performances:
Thursday, July 10th: Performance #1 at 8:30 pm
Friday, July 11th: Performance #2 at 8:30 pm
Saturday, July 12th: Performance #3 at 8:30 pm
Sunday, July 13th: Performance #4 at 4 pm
Thursday, July 17th: Performance #5 at 8:30 pm
Friday, July 18th: Performance #6 at 8:30 pm
Saturday, July 19th: Performance #7 at 8:30 pm
Sunday, July 20th: Performance #8 at 4 pm
Thursday, July 24th: Performance #9 at 8:30 pm
Friday, July 25th: Performance #10 at 8:30 pm
Saturday, July 26th: Performance #11 at 8:30 pm
Sunday, July 27th: Performance #12 at 4 pm
Thursday, July 31st: Performance #13 at 8:30 pm
Friday, August 1st: Performance #14 at 8:30 pm
Saturday, August 2nd: Performance #15 at 8:30 pm
Venue: HERE Mainstage Theater, 145 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY
Runtime: 120 minutes
Intermission: Yes
Ticket Price:
10 for $10
$25 standard
$50 pay it forward
$100 true cost
Important Note: Our website will be down on July 9 as we transition to a new ticketing system to serve you better. During this time, please contact our box office directly at tickets@here.org for any ticket needs. Thank you for your patience — we can’t wait to welcome you to the theater!
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Terry Curtis Fox is a Brooklyn based playwright, screenwriter, and educator. Justice was produced at Playwrights Horizons directed by Thomas Babe. His extensive television writing included stints at Hill Street Blues, The Marshall, and Stargate SG-1 as well as serving as showrunner of the Showtime series The Hunger. He is co-author of the HBO feature Perfect Witness and the film Fortress (also directed by Stuart Gordon). For six years he was Chair of NYU/Tisch’s Department of Dramatic Writing, where he still teaches. His journalism has appeared in the Village Voice, Film Comment, New York Magazine, and the Chicago Reader, among many other publications.
Avra Fox-Lerner is a writer/director living in Brooklyn NY. Avra became a cinefile at an early age but decided not to pursue film studies. Instead she learned filmmaking as a lighting technician where she learned to problem solve on her feet, how to communicate with crew both above and below the line and honed her craft as a genre creator with a female focus. She is an alum of the New York Stage and Film Screenwriting Lab and the IRIS Writers Lab. She co-wrote BLOODLINE with Henry Jacobson for Blumhouse Pictures. She has written and directed four short films – The Lovers, Such A Shitty Time, Research and most recently Eat Your Heart Out, a silent 16mm horror tone poem. Transgression is Avra’s theatrical directorial debut, though her love of and involvement in theater began when she was 3 years old.