RE: AWAKENINGS/A KIND OF ALASKA*

Written by Harold Pinter

Original score by Philip Glass

Original film Re: Awakenings, by Bill Morrison

NY LIVE ARTS/LIVE IDEAS, NYC

Scenic Design by | Lighting Design by  | Costume Design by Paul Carey | ASL Consultant and Translation by Howie Seago | ASL Performances Interpreted by Anna Carter & Jon Wolfe Nelson | Stage Manager Dave Polato | Assistant Director Marlee Koenigsberg

Cast: Reed Birney | Lisa Emery | Rebecca Henderson | Lewis Merkin | Terrylene Sacchetti | Alexandria Wailes

Presented by: NY Live Arts/Live Ideas, Bill T. Jones Artistic Director

*A Kind of Alaska was also developed, in part, through IRT's 3B Development Series and Our Voices Theater.

Photos by Ian Douglas

The evening opens with the widely praised voiced (with ASL interpretation) staging of the  2010 production directed by Karen Kohlhaas with Lisa Emery, Reed Birney and Rebecca Henderson.

NY Live Arts/Live Ideas then reveals the premiere of acclaimed experimental filmmaker Bill Morrison’s film Re:Awakenings created from newly discovered footage of Dr. Sacks working with encephalitis lethargica patients and combined with footage from the 1973 Yorkshire Television documentary, all accompanied by a score by Philip Glass.

The evening culminates with Our Voices historic version of A Kind of Alaska performed entirely in American Sign Language (no voice interpretation and no captioning) in celebration of Oliver Sacks’ special relationship with the Deaf community and his book Seeing Voices.