Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus

A Sequel to Titus Andronicus

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Theatre Communications Group
Taylor Mac
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A wickedly dark comedy set in the aftermath of William Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus.

Set during the fall of the Roman Empire just after the blood-soaked conclusion of Shakespeare's play, the years of bloody battles are over, the country has been stolen by madmen, and there are casualties everywhere. And two very lowly servants — Gary and Janice — are charged with cleaning up the bodies. It's the year 400 — but it feels like the end of the world.

'A raucous comedy whose subject is tragedy...which Mac engages with gloriously raunchy humor and blazing intuition, and an aching tenderness that sneaks up on you and wraps itself around your heart.' — New York Stage Review

'[A] zany, bloody, audacious new play.' — Time Out, New York

'The iconoclastic vision, the captivating balance of highbrow and low, the undercurrent of compassion for a rarely deserving species – all stay true and really rather glorious.' — Deadline

'Mac's comedy, among other things, is a bruised valentine to the awesome yet limited power of the theater.' — The Wrap

'Delectably raunchy and macabre.' — Vanity Fair

'There's no shortage of art and craft in this offbeat show.' — Variety

'A philosophical vaudeville depicting the savagery of elites, the pettiness of proles, the foolishness of dreamers…Soon, the battle lines are drawn between those, of whatever class, who would try to save the world but fail — the comedians, that is — and those who won't try at all: the tragedians.' — New York Times


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Contributor Bio

Taylor Mac (who uses “judy”—lowercase [sic]as a gender pronoun) is the author of Joy and Pandemic; The Hang (composed by Matt Ray); Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus; A 24-Decade History of Popular Music; Prosperous Fools; The Fre; Hir; The Walk Across America for Mother Earth; The Lily’s Revenge; The Young Ladies Of; Red Tide Blooming; The Be(A)st of Taylor Mac; and the revues Comparison Is Violence; Holiday Sauce; and The Last Two People on Earth: An Apocalyptic Vaudeville (created with Mandy Patinkin, Susan Stroman, and Paul Ford). Mac is the first American to receive the International Ibsen Award; is a MacArthur Fellow, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a Tony nominee for Best Play; and is the recipient of the Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History (with Matt Ray), the Doris Duke Artist Award, a Guggenheim, the Herb Alpert Award, a Drama League Award, the Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting, the Edwin Booth Award, two Helpmann Awards, a New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award, two Obies, two Bessies, and an Ethyl Eichelberger.

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