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The predominantly queer-woman-led, immigrant, multigenerational, feminist theatre ensemble AnomalousCo presents (beyond) Doomsday Scrolling - an original part theater/part protest piece about women, war, displacement, and resistance. Collectively created over three years and directed by Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva, (beyond) Doomsday Scrolling plays American Theatre of Actors from February 6-9, 2025. [UPDATE 13 Feb. 2025: The show's fun has been extended to include dates from February 14-23, 2025.] (beyond) Doomsday Scrolling traces a single day in the life of twelve women fleeing different wars, from different countries and eras, and taking shelter together in an abandoned theater: a microcosm of intercultural conflict, friendship, violence, and resilience. Embodying the war stories of their own female ancestors, twelve actresses from ten countries: Ukraine, Russia, Cuba, Poland, Iceland, Turkey, Moldova, China, Italy, and the USA, ( beyond) Doomsday Scrolling weaves through the ...

Beckett. Women. – an evening of three short plays by Samuel Beckett Directed and designed by Diana Zhdanova Presented by AnomalousCo at HERE 145 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan, NYC July 26-30, 2023 Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva, Ylfa Edelstein, and Lesya Verba. Photo by Jarrett Robertson. It is tempting to argue that Samuel Beckett's particular marriage of experimental form with spare lyricism and compassionate cynicism remains unique in the dramatic canon. Beckett. Women. , from transdisciplinary performance collective AnomalousCo, stages a trio of Beckett's short plays centered on women, Footfalls , Not I , and Rockaby , bringing its own unique vision to these works as it places them into dialogue with one another. Designed and directed by AnomalousCo Co-Artistic Director Diana Zhdanova, a queer dissident artist from Russia, the show features a triad of spellbinding solo performances from women artists that vividly demonstrate the enduring power of these plays. The evening begins with...

(beyond) Doomsday Scrolling Collectively created by the members of AnomalousCo Directed by Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva with Jeremy Goren and Diana Zhdanova Presented by AnomalousCo at HERE 145 6th Ave, Manhattan, NYC February 16-26, 2023 Photo by Jarrett Robertson The war in Ukraine, which will have stretched on for a year as of late next week, looms large in (beyond) Doomsday Scrolling , a formidable new devised theater piece from feminist performance collective AnomalousCo, but the full scope of the show's consideration of women in wartime is much more capacious. (beyond) Doomsday Scrolling imagines women from different eras and locations coming together to shelter in a theater, a space which has historically played various important roles during times of conflict. The result is what AnomalousCo founding Co-Artistic Director Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva characterized to Thinking Theater NYC as "one part theatre, one part protest," with naturalistic scenes "ruptured b...

Photo: Jarrett Robertson Beginning next week,  AnomalousCo , a predominantly queer woman-led, nearly all immigrant, feminist, transdisciplinary performance collective, will present  (beyond) Doomsday Scrolling  from February 16th to 26th at Manhattan's HERE Arts Center . The show is set in an imagined theater in which women from different periods and places come together for shelter from war. By means of this setting,  (beyond) Doomsday Scrolling  centers women in its consideration of war, displacement, and resistance. Described as a dramatic cabaret, the production is multilingual and multigenerational, performed by twelve women and one man. The cast members hail from Ukraine, Poland, Iceland, Georgia, Moldova, Russia, Scotland, Italy, Cuba, and the United States, and the show's live band is headed by Ukrainian musician and anti-war activist Lesya Verba. (beyond) Doomsday Scrolling incorporates songs from different cultures, eras, and genres, as well as te...