Chosen out of 400 submissions, Pas de Trois, or The Dancing Witch Play by Aaliyah Warrington is one of 8 plays and musicals that will make their Off-Broadway debuts at Classic Stage Company as apart of the SheNYC Festival this summer! You can learn more about the play and the festival on Broadway World. You can buy tickets here. 

 

It’s Summer. 1518. And the people of Strasbourg are…comfortable in their sanctimonious society. But newcomers, the young Theodore Troffea, pursuing new business ventures, and his wife, Manon, challenge their social rules, especially after one hot July day, when Manon begins manically dancing in the streets with no indication that she will stop. 

When others follow suit and bodies begin to fall, Manon’s new neighbors become her witch hunters overnight. As her humanity is brought into question, Manon is forced to reckon with the reason she began dancing in the first place.

Pas de Trois gives name and voice to the alleged initiator of the dancing plague of 1518, centering one woman’s powerful expression of grief. 

The play was originally workshopped virtually in 2021...

...and was first produced at Ithaca College in the McCarroll Theatre during the Fall of 2022-2023 season.

To learn more about the play, you can find a Q&A with playwright Aaliyah Warrington here. 

AALIYAH WARRINGTON. Playwright. Aaliyah Warrington is a playwright based in Philadelphia who holds a BA in Theatre Studies from Ithaca College. Notable works include “The Jake Dilemma”, “Soon, Again, Not Yet” (Silver Egg Award winners, New Play Incubator Playwriting Competition, 2019 & 2020), “Gather Ye Children” (produced during Ithaca College’s online season, 2020), and “Pas De Trois, or The Dancing Witch Play” (produced on the Ithaca College mainstage, 2022). Her work tells fantastical stories with modern characters.

MAYA GRACE MCCULLOUGH. Director. Maya McCullough is a Brooklyn based director-dramaturg who holds a B.A. in Theatre Studies and Sociology from Ithaca College. She recently directed Catherine Crimmins’ new play God's Favorite, which earned the award for Best Direction of a Play at the Summer 2024 New York Theatre Festival. With a focus on developing new works, Maya is passionate about the unique potential of the stage as a medium for storytelling that can affect our world. 

ALAYSIA RENAY DUNCAN. Producer. Alaysia Renay Duncan (she/her) is a Brooklyn based actress, theatremaker, and filmmaker from Saint Paul, Minnesota. With the goal of running her own production company, her work, both on the stage and screen, aims to expand the type and quality of representation Black women and girls have in the media. Her short film ABSTRACT marked her directorial debut, and was backed by Emmy-award winning production studio, Wavelength Productions through their WAVE Grant. Her producing work has also been seen on the short film series Black Girls Don’t Get Love and the play Pas De Trois, Or The Dancing Witch Play, which will be featured in the upcoming 2025 SheNYC Festival. As an actress, Alaysia has been seen on stage at Utah Shakespeare Festival (where her work was lauded as “superb” in reviews), Engeman Theater, Hangar Theatre, The Tank, The Chain, and recently participated in a workshop of Mara Nelson Greenberg’s new play Not Not Jane with Clubbed Thumb. Alaysia is currently performing at Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre as Enid in Legally Blonde and Bulda in Frozen. As a writer, Alaysia is currently developing a Gen-Z-Sex-and-The-City pilot, a play about generational curses in love, and various short film scripts that transcend genre. Outside of performing, Alaysia works in front of house at various theatre venues across Manhattan. She holds a BFA in Acting with a Minor in Writing from Ithaca College. alaysiarenayduncan.com.

JORDAN WEINER. Producer.

STARR WIMBER. Stage Manager.

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