PLAN C

Thurs March 12th - Sun April 12th

Conceived & Directed by Carrie Heitman, Production Management by Leah McVeigh, Assistant Direction by Kyle Abourizk, Costume Design by Krista Pineman , Scenic Design by Anna Grigo, Composition & Sound Design by Ian Scot Williams, Lighting Design by Zack Saunders, Choreography by Leslie Galán Guyton, Graphic Design by Sarah Fay Krom, Social Media Coordinator: Caroline Lucas, Production Stage Management by Grace Porter, Assistant Direction by Kyle Abourizk, Assistant Choreography by Adrianna Di Liello

ENSEMBLE

Parnia Ayari, Elizabeth London, Cynthia Babak, Meghan Grover, Jesse Koehler, Nylda Mark, Vann Dukes, Rina Dutta, Daniel Olguin

PLAN C — When Justice fails, Hope has couriers

PLAN C is (not) Bridgerton, set 200 years earlier, and Lady Whistledown runs a post office. Unfortunately there’s no sex*. Fortunately, the show works without it.

Meanwhile, in West Virginia, a small town family hardware store distributes more than just hammers and nails.

*at least not DURING the performance

PLAN C is a darkly funny, time-collapsing caper of resistance, relationships, and rebellion. In 1620 Brussels, imperial postmistress Alexandrine Von Taxis moves more than mail through the empire’s hands during The Thirty Years’ War. In present-day West Virginia, Charley Gibson runs her family’s hardware store, where lockers conceal more than tools. As 17th-century espionage collides with a small-town network, PLAN C exposes how rebellion takes shape. 

PLAN C flips between two eras to bring history and the present into dynamic conversation with movement, original music, and ensemble-driven storytelling. This nine-person ensemble uses Hook & Eye’s signature devising style, to bring to life a story that reflects the urgency of the present moment.

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Hook & Eye builds inspiring, inquisitive original works of theater. We devise through ensemble co-creation and co-authorship on themes of history, science, and myth. Through Instant PlayLabs, Education Initiatives, and Full-Length Productions, Hook & Eye is a company committed to celebrating the power of creativity by making stories that honor the agency of the individual artist, as well as the group as a whole. Using an extended creative process that we have developed over our history, we create new works of performance as a collective, using improvisation, research, movement, soundscape, text, and debate. Any artist with whom we work, is a generator of content, revision, and performance. We create at the intersection of play-making and script-writing. www.hookandeyetheater.com