By Ivan Viripaev
Translated by Cazimir Liske
Directed by Andrew Freeburg
Showtimes
Thursday, January 26 @ 8pm
Friday, January 27 @ 8pm
Saturday, January 28 @ 2pm
Saturday, January 28 @ 8pm
Sunday, January 29 @ 2pm
Columbia University School of the Arts presents Illusions, a directing thesis production by current student Andrew Freeburg.
Ivan Viripaev’s Illusions is an exercise in collective storytelling about people you’ve never met. Two men and two women untangle the lives of two couples they’ve never met based on the traces they’ve left behind: a pile of broken lamps, tattered chairs, and overturned refrigerators, all left to rot and rust on a sidewalk. Except…who left them? Who were these couples? What have they left behind? And who have they left it for?
Content Warning
This production includes discussions of suicide, suicidal thoughts and drug use. For more detailed information about show content, including spoilers, please visit bit.ly/illusions-content.
Run Time
80 minutes
Featuring
Ryan Nicholas Cooper – SECOND MAN
Regina Famatigan – FIRST WOMAN
Shelby Flannery – SECOND WOMAN
Jonathan Taikina Taylor – FIRST MAN
Production Team & Crew
Director Andrew Freeburg (current student)
Production Stage Manager Cal Langston (current student)
Assistant Stage Manager Lingyi Wang (current student)
Co-Producer Kyra Armstrong (current student)
Co-Producer Joel Edwards (current student)
Lighting Designer Christina Tang
Costume Designer Marianne CD Needell
Scenic and Props Designer Thomas Jenkeleit
Sound Designer Angela Baughman
Company Manager Gillian Fu
Run Crew (current students): Drew Mindell, TuQuyen Pham, Danica Selem, Yejia Su, and Zeina AlBarkouky.
About the Artist
Andrew Freeburg is a designer, director, and translator. Before joining the Columbia directing program, he worked as a resident media designer with the Dmitri Krymov Laboratory. At Columbia, he translated and directed Chekhov’s Ivanov, and directed an adaptation of Carlos Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart. Design: George Kaplan (New Ohio Theater); Everybody (Santa Fe Playhouse); The Trojan Women, The View, Once on Rumspringa (Columbia University); Darling Grenadine (Roundabout Theatre Company, Goodspeed Musicals). BA, Yale University.