The Trees

Production

Jun 27

Written By Page 73

World Premiere Production

SYNOPSIS

Late one night, drunk-stumbling home through a neighborhood park, two siblings’ feet take root in the earth. Literally. Word spreads and this extraordinary event brings together an otherwise disparate group of strangers, each seeking renewed purpose. The Trees by Agnes Borinsky asks us to consider: in our mercenary world, how can we have a more expansive notion of what change is possible? What of our old lives do we hold onto?

“The play unfolds as a kind of meditation on what it means to stop, what kinds of ecosystems can blossom in the presence of rootedness.”

— Arielle Angel, Editor-in-Chief of Jewish Currents

“It made me [...] leave the theater believing”

— Rachel Kauder Nalebuff, Director & Founder of 3 Hole Press

All photos by Chelcie Parry

Agnes Borinsky is a writer and artist who has collaborated on all sorts of projects in basements, backyards, gardens, circus tents, classrooms, bars, and theaters. Selected plays include A Song of Songs (Bushwick Starr & El Puente), Ding Dong It’s the Ocean (Rady&Bloom), Brief Chronicle, Books 6-8 (i am a slow tide), and Of Government (Clubbed Thumb). She lives in Los Angeles.

Tina Satter is a writer and director. Her critically acclaimed play Is This A Room, which she conceived and directed, ran on Broadway in fall 2021 at the Lyceum Theatre, after a fall 2019 Off-Broadway premiere at the Vineyard Theatre. She’s Artistic Director of Half Straddle, an Obie-winning ensemble of performers and designers whose work has been presented across the United States and internationally. Tina attended Mac Wellman’s graduate playwriting program at Brooklyn College.

February 12 - March 19

Playwrights Horizons
Mainstage
416 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036

Creative Team

Parker Lutz (Sets)
Enver Chakartash (Costumes)
Thomas Dunn (Lighting)
Tei Blow (Sound)
Amanda Villalobos (Puppets)
Nazareth Hassan (Original Music)
Randi Rivera (Production Stage Manager)
Kayla Owen (Assistant Stage Manager)

Learn more about The Trees directly from the playwright, Agnes Borinsky.

playwright's perspective: the trees

Read a conversation between Michael Walkup and Adam Greenfield, Artistic Director of Playwrights Horizons about the play.

Notes on "The Trees”

Meet the Cast

**Alaina Kai Chester**
Sheila and Others (u/s)

**Benjamin Pelteson**
David and Others (u/s)

photos by Chelcie Parry

Page 73 receives public funds from the NEA, the New York Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

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