Join Tectonic for an intimate preview of our plays in the laboratory and artist discussions!
Monday, February 11 at 7:30pm
TheaterLab, 357 West 36th St, NYC
All tickets for this event are currently sold out. If you would like to be placed on the wait list, please contact [email protected]. Thank you!
Please note - Moments in Progress is a new bi-annual event from Tectonic. If you are not able to attend this time, save the date for June 17th!
The Album (Here There are Blueberries) - In 2008, a young archivist at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received a letter from an anonymous donor - “The purpose of this letter is to offer the Holocaust Museum...an opportunity to review a series of World War II era photographs held in my personal files. I believe it’s an album of photographs of Auschwitz.” While she was skeptical at first that such an album could exist, when the museum inspected the artifact she realized she had an untold piece of history in her hands. The now infamous Hoecker Album was determined to be the personal project of Karl Hoecker, second-in-command at Auschwitz. The Album revealed a previously unknown part of the camp complex known as Solahütte, a vacation retreat for Nazi officers, SS wives and children, and elite secretaries (Helferinnen). The company is investigating Karl Höcker and his Helferinnen, the daily lives of the perpetrators and the terrifying plight of their victims. “The Album” begs us to consider our capacity to commit evil acts and the point at which complicity begins.
Euphoria - In 1988, Spencer Cox dropped out of college and moved to NYC to join ACT UP’s Treatment and Data Committee - the group focused on getting “drugs into bodies.” He became what the New York Times would later call a "self-taught scientist - activist,” saving millions of lives. Cut to December, 2012 - six years after the release of protease inhibitors. Spencer is brought to Mount Sinai hospital suffering from AIDS related infections and dies a few days later. When his friends clean his apartment, they find all of his AIDS medications untouched, the very same medications he was responsible for bringing to market. Had Spencer effectively committed suicide by AIDS? “Euphoria” delves into the life of Spencer Cox and the ACT UP activist community to chronicle the rise of the movement to end AIDS.
The Very Extraordinary Mr. Law - A Scottish gambler arrives at Versailles with a trick he says will make everyone rich: turn paper into gold. John Law’s scheme to replace coins with paper money is a wild success until it turns into the world’s first stock market crash, and he barely escapes with his life. Law and his partner in commerce, the flamboyant younger brother of Louis XIV, then flee to New Orleans, where they are captured by a runaway slave and her gang of buccaneers. This comedy reveals the origin of the word “millionaire” and how America’s most improvised city was founded on a gamble.