Man Cave
Currently featured in our new serial program Launch: A Docuseries. Learn more →
WORLD PREMIERE PRODUCTION
March 1 - April 2, 2022
Imaculada gathers her friends in a fortress-like mansion belonging to her absent employer, a wealthy Republican Congressman. Together the four women convert his luxurious basement man cave into their own spiritual war room and protective sanctuary from the violence of men, both real and supernatural.
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“a political drama wrapped in the spooky pleasures of the horror genre, and it works on both levels.”
Trailer by Fernando D. Maldonado
“I’m betting that you won’t be bored, not even for a split-second. Man Cave wraps potent social criticism inside a ghost story that will have you eager (and afraid) to find out what happens next.”
All photos by Daniel J Vasquez
MEET THE CAST
Left to Right: Annie Henk, Claudia Acosta, Jacqueline Guillén, Socorro Santiago.
(Photographed by Mitch Zachary, Styled by Milton David Dixon III, Makeup by Mert Nazlim, Hair by Karla Serrano, Photo producer Billy Kiessling.)
Claudia Acosta
Lupita
Jacqueline Guillén
Rosemary
Annie Henk
Imaculada
Socorro Santiago
Consuelo
John J. Caswell, Jr. is a playwright originally from Phoenix, a current fellow at Juilliard’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program, the winner of the 2020-2021 Paula Vogel Playwriting Award at the Vineyard Theatre, and the recipient of the 2021 L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award for Wet Brain. Additional honors include the 2020 Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award, 2020 Rita and Burton Goldberg Playwriting Prize, 2019 Relentless Award Finalist, 2018 MacDowell Fellowship, 2018 SPACE on Ryder Farm Creative Residency, 2019-2020 Play Group member at Ars Nova, and the 2017 Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship. His work is cited frequently as an example of queer-centric theatre, most recently referenced in articles appearing in Theatre Topics, The International Journal of the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, and the European Journal of Comparative American Studies. Included as a consummate demonstration of auto-ethnographic theatre, his play SHOTS: A Love Story was published as part of Johnny Saldaña's book Ethnotheatre: Research From Page to Stage published by Left Coast Press. John is currently under commission at Playwrights Horizons and Williamstown Theatre Festival. Education: Juilliard School, Hunter College, and Arizona State University. www.johnjcaswelljr.com
Taylor Reynolds is a New York-based director from Chicago and one of the Producing Artistic Leaders of OBIE-winning The Movement Theatre Company. Taylor has worked as a director, assistant, and collaborator with companies including Page 73, Clubbed Thumb, Keen Company, Signature Theatre Company, New Georges, MCC, and The 24 Hour Plays. Her selected directing credits: The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, New York Times Critic's Pick), Richard & Jane & Dick & Sally (Baltimore Center Stage/Playwrights Realm), Tough (AADA), Plano (Clubbed Thumb, Drama Desk nomination for Best Director), Songs About Trains (Radical Evolution), and Think Before You Holla (creator/deviser). Taylor is the 2021 LPTW Lucille Lortel Award recipient, a New Georges Affiliated Artist, 2017-2018 Clubbed Thumb Directing Fellow, and Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab alum. BFA, Carnegie Mellon University. Member of SDC.
Health & Safety
To best protect artists, audience, and staff, we are requiring proof of full vaccination and proof of a booster shot for those eligible.
We will accept proof at the theater via the Excelsior Pass, the NYC COVID Safe Pass for Android and iOS, a copy or photo of your CDC vaccination card, and/or a copy or photo of an official immunization record from outside the United States. All guests must also present identification.
Face masks will be required throughout your time at the theater.
TICKET EXCHANGE POLICY
If you are unable to attend your ticketed performance, please contact tickets@page73.org or leave a voicemail at (718) 398-2099 to reschedule your tickets. We ask that you please stay home if you are not feeling well or are awaiting the results of a Covid test.
CREATIVE TEAM
Adam Rigg (Set Design)
Hahnji Jang (Costume Design)
Lucrecia Briceno (Lighting Design)
Michael Costagliola (Sound Design)
Andrew Diaz (Props Design)
Gregg Bellón (Projection Design)
Sy Bedrick (Make-Up Design)
David Anzuelo (Fight Choreographer)
Yolanda Castro (Spanish Language Translations)
Rico Frederick (Graphic Designer)
Caskey Hunsader (Production Stage Manager)
Carolina Arboleda (Assistant Stage Manager)
Zach Jenkins (Production Manager)
Taylor Williams, C.S.A. (Casting)
TEN DOLLAR TICKET INITIATIVE
Page 73's Ten Dollar Ticket Initiative makes ten $10 general-admission tickets available to every performance. Any person for whom a regular-priced ticket would be inaccessible is encouraged to take advantage of this initiative. Tickets are first come, first serve.
