After two years of COVID-related delays, Nu Sass Productions returns to the stage with its largest and most ambitious show yet: the world premiere of Twigs & Bone — a gothic fairy tale spanning three days and three lifetimes — by rising playwright Tiffany Antone. Directed by Lynn Sharp Spears, Twigs & Bone will perform April 1 through June 25, 2022, at Caos on F (in rep with Nu Sass’s other 2022 show, To Fall In Love by Jennifer Lane, which will run May 6 through June 18, 2022).
ABOUTÂ TWIGS & BONE
Moira had never intended to return to her childhood home, preferring instead to send nurses and maids to care for her aging parents. However, when the phone line is cut off and the maid stops responding, Moira has no choice but to face her own past and her parents’ present. Part American gothic, part Irish fairy tale, and part magical realism, Twigs & Bone leaves the audience on the edge of their seats to the last moment in the show.
“Our director, Lynn Sharp Spears, brought this show to the company in 2018, and we began plans to produce it in 2019,” said Nu Sass Artistic Director Aubri O’Connor. “We loved how authentic the family dynamics were, how the magic of the story was rooted in reality, and the challenge the script offered us knowing it would be staged in Caos. We’re keeping all our fingers and toes crossed that this project so long in the making finally has its day in the sun.”
With its roles double-cast, Twigs & Bone stars Aubri O’Connor or Katie Wicklund (as Moira), Lynn Sharp Spears or Melissa Robinson (as Bonnie), and Tom Howley or Kim Curtis (as William).
Twigs & Bone will perform April 1 through June 25, 2022, presented by Nu Sass Productions performing at Caos on F, 923 F Street NW, Washington, DC. Tickets ($30 general admission; $60 date night [2 tickets + 2 drinks + 2 snacks]; $10 industry, student, teacher, healthcare worker) can be purchased online. Pay What You Will is available for all performances, and a streaming option ($20) is available for selected performances (see schedule below).
COVID Safety: Seating is limited to 18 audience members per performance. Proof of vaccination is required. All guests will be asked to comply with Theater Washington COVID guidelines.
CREDITS
Written by Tiffany Antone
Directed by Lynn Sharp Spears
Assistant Directed by Mundy Spears
Stage Management by Charles Lasky
Assistant Stage Management by Sarah McCarthy
Light Design by Helen Garcia-Alton
Sound by Charles Lasky and M.B.
Set by Simone Schneeberg and Dan Remmers
Costumes by Stephenie Yee
Props by Lynn Sharp Spears
Choreography by Mundy Spears
Marketing by M.B. and Laolu Fayese
ABOUT TIFFANY ANTONE
Tiffany is a playwright, educator, and theatermaker whose plays have been read and/or performed in Los Angeles, New York, DC, and Minneapolis. Her play Cricket Woman Mother Earth (or) A Nasty Comeuppance (a past O’Neil finalist) recently enjoyed a workshop at The Boston Court as part of its 2017 New Play Festival. Her plays Ana and the Closet and Twigs and Bone were both Jerome Finalists. Twigs and Bone was also a Great Plains Theatre Conference selection in 2014 and received a developmental production with Acadiana Repertory Theatre in 2015.
Tiffany’s play The Good Book is available through Samuel French. Her play In the Company of Jane Doe has won numerous awards and received its first NY production in 2012 with CAKE Productions. Tiffany was a 2008 Hawthornden Fellow and a 2009 Sherwood Award Finalist with CTG, and was awarded the 2012 Bucky Award for Outstanding Literary Artist.
As a theatermaker and producer, Tiffany has produced new-play festivals and initiated several theater-as-social-action initiatives through her companies Little Black Dress INK (a female-playwright–producing organization) and Protest Plays Project, for which she’s currently facilitating an intercollegiate new-play exchange titled Heal the Divide on Campus.
As an educator, Tiffany has taught a variety of introductory and advanced theater classes for a number of colleges and universities. She has also had the pleasure of working as a guest director for institutes of higher ed, and cherishes every opportunity to work with emerging artists.
Tiffany holds her MFA in Playwriting from UCLA, and currently lives/teaches in Iowa, where she writes for stage and screen. She is a member of The Dramatists Guild, The Playwright’s Center, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, and The Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative (for whom she is also a contributing blogger).
TWIGS & BONE PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
Friday, April 1 @ 7:30pm OPENING NIGHT (sold out)
Saturday, April 2 @ 7:30pm
Sunday, April 3 @ 2:00pm
Thursday, April 7 @ 7:30pm
Friday, April 8 @ 7:30pm
Saturday, April 9 @ 7:30pm
Sunday, April 10 @ 2:00pm
Thursday, April 14 @ 7:30pm
Friday, April 15 @ 7:30pm
Saturday, April 16 @ 7:30pm
Wednesday, April 20 @ 7:30pm (streaming option available)
Friday, April 22 @ 7:30pm (streaming option available)
Saturday, April 23 @ 2:00pm (streaming option available)
Saturday, April 23 @ 7:00pm (streaming option available)
Sunday, April 24 @ 2:00pm (streaming option available)
Friday, April 29 @ 7:30pm (streaming option available)
Saturday, April 30 @ 2:00pm (streaming option available)
Saturday, April 30 @ 7:30pm (streaming option available)
Sunday, May 1 @ 2:00pm (streaming option available)
Monday, May 2 @ 7:30pm (streaming option available)
Thursday, May 5 @ 7:30pm (streaming option available)
Saturday, May 7 @ 2:00pm (streaming option available)
Tuesday, May 10 @ 7:30pm (streaming option available)
Friday, May 13 @ 7:30pm (streaming option available)
Saturday, May 14 @ 7:30pm (streaming option available)
Sunday, May 15 @ 2:00pm (streaming option available)
Wednesday, May 18 @ 7:30pm (streaming option available)
Friday, May 20 @ 7:30pm (streaming option available)
Saturday, May 21 @ 2:00pm (streaming option available)
Saturday, May 21 @ 7:30pm (streaming option available)
Sunday, May 22 @ 2:00pm (streaming option available)
Monday, May 23 @ 7:30pm (streaming option available)
Wednesday, May 25 @ 7:30pm (streaming option available)
Friday, May 27 @ 7:30pm (streaming option available)
Saturday, May 28 @ 2:00pm (streaming option available)
Tuesday, May 31 @ 7:30pm (streaming option available)
Wednesday, June 1 @ 7:30pm (streaming option available)
Thursday, June 2 @ 7:30pm (streaming option available)
Saturday, June 4 @ 7:30pm (streaming option available)
Sunday, June 5 @ 2:00pm (streaming option available)
Monday, June 6 @ 7:30pm (streaming option available)
Tuesday, June 7 @ 7:30pm (streaming option available)
Friday, June 10 @ 7:30pm (streaming option available)
Saturday, June 11 @ 2:00pm (streaming option available)
Saturday, June 11 @ 7:30pm (streaming option available)
Sunday, June 12 @ 2:00pm (streaming option available)
Tuesday, June 14 @ 7:30pm (streaming option available)
Wednesday, June 15 @ 7:30pm (streaming option available)
Wednesday, June 22 @ 7:30pm (streaming option available)
Thursday, June 23 @ 7:30pm (streaming option available)
Friday, June 24 @ 7:30pm (streaming option available)
Saturday, June 25 @ 2:00pm (streaming option available)
Saturday, June 25 @ 7:30pm CLOSING PERFORMANCE
ABOUT NU SASS PRODUCTIONS
Nu Sass Productions strives to encourage marginalized genders in all aspects of theater, especially in those roles traditionally dominated by cis-men. Nu Sass explores how disregarding prescribed genders can change the overall experience for the audience. Above all, Nu Sass aims to create engaging, thought-provoking art while being a responsible local and global citizen.
Nu Sass Productions was founded by Aubri O’Connor and Emily Todd in 2009 and is entering its 13th year of producing in DC, having completed over 30 productions of 23 plays, and innumerable readings and pop-up events. Visit nusass.com to learn more about past, current, and future productions.
