Photo by Mark Duggan of 600 Highwaymen’s Manmade Earth, co-produced by Torn Space Theater

Part of the 2019 Torn Space RESPONSE: Performance Series

Manmade Earth features eight teenagers living in Buffalo from across the globe. Having workshopped the piece from scratch for the 2018 Response Festival, 600 HIGHWAYMEN’s work returns in its final iteration following a NYC premiere.

Join us for a special fall edition of Humanities Night at Torn Space Theater, housed in the Adam Mickiewicz Library and Dramatic Circle.

UPDATE [11/8/2019]: We are pleased to announce that the writers/directors of Manmade Earth Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone (founders of 600 Highwaymen) will be giving the talk for Humanities Night. This is a great opportunity to hear from a leading voice in contemporary performance.

Special discounted pricing of $25 per ticket is being offered for this performance. To reserve your tickets, please email huminst@buffalo.edu with your name and number of tickets requested by Friday, November 15th. Tickets will be paid for at the door, cash or credit.

• 6:00pm – Doors/bar open (cash only bar)
• 6:30pm – A special Humanities Night at Torn Space pre-performance talk with 600 Highwaymen founders Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone; discussing the show, how it was conceived, and how it has evolved in stages from a work-in-progress in Buffalo, through a residency program, to its New York premiere, and finally the show’s return back to Buffalo.
• — bar interlude —
• 7:30pm – performance

600 HIGHWAYMEN is the moniker for theater artists Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone. For ten years, the duo has been presenting original works using creative methods ranging from conventional to peculiar, and that change with each new project. Though the processes are varied, the works revolve around a shared curiosity: what takes place in the encounter between people.

Previous engagements in NYC include The Invisible Dog, Park Avenue Armory, The Public Theater, and Abrons Arts Center; away from home at American Repertory Theater (Cambridge), AT&T Performing Arts Center (Dallas), Fringe Arts (Philadelphia), Fusebox Festival (Austin), International Festival of Arts & Ideas (New Haven), Kimmel Center (Philadelphia), MASS MoCA/Sundance Institute (North Adams, MA), Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), On The Boards (Seattle), Spoleto Festival (Charleston, SC), Torn Space (Buffalo), Walker Arts Center (Minneapolis), Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus), Woolly Mammoth (Washington, DC); and outside the US at The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi (UAE), Bristol Old Vic (UK), Centre Pompidou (France), Centre Pompidou Málaga (Spain), Dublin Theatre Festival (Ireland), MESS Festival (Sarajevo), Luminato Festival (Toronto), Onassis Cultural Centre (Greece), OzAsia Festival (Australia), Parc de la Villette (France), FITS/Sibiu Fest (Romania). Multiple productions at Noorderzon (The Netherlands), Theaterformen (Germany), Zürcher Theater Spektakel (Switzerland).

Awards include an Obie and ZKB Patronize Prize (Switzerland); nominations for a Bessie Award and The Nestroy Prize (Austria). In 2016, Browde and Silverstone were named artist fellows by the New York Foundation for the Arts. www.600highwaymen.org