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This summer, Rising Sun Performance Company will be presenting a variety of children’s plays to be performed in person at outdoor NYC parks for FREE.
WE CLOSE OUR SUMMER TOUR WITH A TWO DAY FESTIVAL ON GOVERNORS ISLAND!
SATURDAY & SUNDAY AUGUST 21ST & 22ND 11:30AM TO 4:30PM
ALL PERFORMANCES ARE FREE
DONATIONS ONSITE & ONLINE ARE WELCOME & APPRECIATED
WE CLOSE OUR SUMMER TOUR WITH A TWO DAY FESTIVAL ON GOVERNORS ISLAND!
SATURDAY & SUNDAY AUGUST 21ST & 22ND 11:30AM TO 4:30PM
ALL PERFORMANCES ARE FREE
DONATIONS ONSITE & ONLINE ARE WELCOME & APPRECIATED
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Performance Schedule
SUNDAY AUGUST 29TH Festival Schedule 11:30AM Puka Who & Report Back to Space 12:30PM This Sinking Island 2PM Report Back to Space & Puka Who 3PM This Sinking Island Festival Schedule Saturday, August 21st & Sunday, August 22nd 11:30AM Puka Who 12:30PM Report Back to Space & Playing Possum 2PM This Sinking Island 3PM Report Back to Space & Playing Possum 3PM Puka Who 4PM This Sinking Island Locations include Castle Williams, The Oval, and the Lawns near Colonels Row. Rain/Extreme Heat/Inclement Weather Dates Saturday, Aug 28th & Sunday, Aug 29th) Please check our Social Media for Inclement Weather Updates |
PLEASE NOTE ALL PERFORMANCES ARE LAWN SEATING. PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN BLANKETS OR FLOOR CUSHIONS TO SIT ON. NO FIXED OR FORMAL SEATING IS PROVIDED AT THE SHOWS
IMPORTANT NOTE ON COVID-19 SAFETY: Our Performers, Crew & Production Team are all fully vaccinated and tested on a weekly basis. Performers will be performing without masks. We ask that all audience members remain seated and 6 feet away from the performance area. We encourage masks and will be enforcing social distance seating set up for audiences. Unfortunately, we will be unable to offer post-show meet & greets or photo opportunities |
Playing Possum
Directed by Anel Carmona^ Assistant Director Chelsey Smith^ Playwright Holly Hepp-Galván Stage Manager Madeleine Blossom Assistant Stage Manager Fatemata Krubally Costume Design Catherine Fisher Featuring: Lluvia Almanza^ , Rick Benson^, Rachael Langton^,Denisse Estefany Mendoza, Mateo Moreno^ Orlando F. Rodriguez^, Ayesha Saleh^, Rachel Schardt, Mary Sheridan^ & Danielle Stanek Playing Possum retells the Mexican folklore of Possum's adventures where perhaps he plays one trick too many. Don’t miss this playful tale filled with animals that will be sure to bring giggles to audiences of all ages. 
This Sinking Island
devised by The Anthropologists, written by Melissa Moschitto with original music by Mariah Freda directed by Rachael Langton choreography by Marissa Joyce Stamps properties & design elements support Akia Squitieri stage managed by Callie Considine featuring: Emma Copp, Luis Felciano, Jonathan Frye*, Leica Lucien & Josephine Pizzino This Sinking Island is an interactive piece that challenges us to work together to help our neighbors when climate change displaces us from our homes. It's devised in two parts. Part one showcases a chorus of climate refugees who tell their stories of home and how extreme weather changed their lives. Part two focuses the threat of climate change to one story about three siblings who meet an unexpected friend while relocating homes after rising sea levels flood their Manhattan apartment. |
Report Back to Space
By Judd Lear Silverman ^ Directed by Chelsey Smith^ Stage Manager Madeleine Blossom Assistant Stage Manager Fatemata Krubally Featuring: Luis Feliciano & Rachel Shardt On a hot summer day in the park, an alien from another planet arrives to learn just how our planet functions—and gets an earful from a well-rooted creature closely in touch with the earth: a flower, who tells him not only how the planet really works, but how the humans only think they run it. This brief comedy is a humorous look at the state of our world and the opportunities for pleasure that humans often miss. 
Puka Who
by E.R Merwin directed by Eric Parness assistant directed by Akia Squitieri choreography by Paulina Tobar stage managed by Paulina Tobar featuring: Maggie Kissinger, Monique Pappas, Sean Phillips, Jose Vargas & Molly Bader The story centers on a new park ranger with night patrol duties of Castle Williams. During her night watch, she encounters a furry and mischievous “Puka” and has an adventure of learning and exploration with the help of her new Puka friend and the ghost of a young soldier who used to live on the Island in 1854. |
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Costume Design for all plays by Catherine Fisher
Properties, production design support, creative consultation by Akia Squitieri Environmental Storytelling Devised By Akia Squitieri Production Stage Manager Madeleine Blossom Covid Safety officers David Stallings & Mateo Moreno Graphic Design Rachael Langton Social Media Jennifer Iris Rivera Accessibility Coordination Rebecca Kane |
Governors Island is a 172-acre island in the heart of New York Harbor. Just minutes from Lower Manhattan and the Brooklyn waterfront by ferry, the island is a popular seasonal destination open to visitors from May to October. An award-winning park complements its dozens of historic buildings, year-round educational and cultural facilities, rich arts and culture program and 22-acre National Monument managed by the National Park Service.
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the festival is made in possible, in part of the following organizations support, along with governors island and individual donors
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