REV Theatre Company’s aim is to revitalize and transform the great classic plays that share heightened language and universal themes. We explore the relationship between language and performance through a mix of our rigorous approach to the text with intensely physical staging and musical production numbers.
We infuse these texts and with style, wit, energy and sheer bravado. We interpret and transform the material we work with, anatomizing, dismembering, reconstructing, changing and intensifying our vision over a long period of time using exploratory and developmental workshops.
REV Theatre Company is absolutely committed to making theatre a vital part of our society, and making live arts accessible to and affordable for a widely diverse audience. Our goal is to create cultural activities that enrich the lives of young people and families, particularly those who are underserved in the arts. We bring free professional productions geared to family audiences and accompanying children's workshops to low and middle-income families. We believe that theatre should be available to everyone, regardless of ethnicity, socio-economic or cultural backgrounds.
We present our productions in urban parks and unique public spaces (a municipal parking lot, a tiny storefront on the Lower East Side of New York, the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a pier on the Hudson River, an iconic, historically-landmarked Philadelphia cemetery) in New York, Philadelphia, throughout Connecticut and in upstate New York.
These outdoor productions enable REV to engage with communities that cross racial, cultural, ethnic and economic backgrounds in New York, the Tri-State area and most recently in Pennsylvania. Our audiences for the summer production have included Hispanic, Asian, South American, Haitian, Indian, South African and Eastern European populations. Taking our work into these communities is also an integral part of our long-term goal of developing new audiences for classical theatre.
REV’s production of The Comedy Of Errors in July 2015 will be the inaugural offering of the newly formed Cape May Shakespeare Festival. REV’s Artistic Directors and Cape May resident Ken Bingham are the Co-Founders and Co-Artistic Directors of the Cape May Shakespeare Festival.
Learn More: http://www.revtheatrecompany.org