[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"siteSettings-header":3,"production-rage-play":6,"navigation":146},{"header_cta":4,"header_cta_url":5},"Get Tickets","/productions/fear-wonder",[7],{"id":8,"status":9,"date_created":10,"date_updated":11,"user_created":12,"user_updated":13,"title":14,"slug":15,"tagline":16,"playwright":17,"director":18,"season":19,"opening_date":20,"closing_date":21,"meta_title":22,"meta_description":22,"poster_image":23,"description":24,"content":25,"featured":37,"carousel_title":22,"events":38,"Venue":39,"funders":40,"Crew":41,"Cast":110,"gallery":144,"carousel_items":145},"4cd82200-258e-4bbf-a89b-3da1544f0380","published","2026-04-17T03:57:27.848Z","2026-04-23T14:31:00.241Z","330cdc5a-6d3f-456c-aec8-de6c0e72ce85","99317c0d-dc7d-4f50-b644-c6316824f718","Rage Play","rage-play","a dark comedy","Nandita Shenoy","Lori Elizabeth Parquet","2020","2020-03-28","2020-04-11",null,"d0e75b02-9016-4c25-8773-b51c5d5dec24","\u003Cp>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Three women stand over the man they’ve killed, struggling to understand how it happened and why he keeps coming back to life. Again and again and again. \u003C/span>\u003Cstrong>Inspired by the #MeToo movement, Nandita Shenoy’s outrageous black comedy \u003C/strong>\u003Cstrong>\u003Cem>Rage Play \u003C/em>\u003C/strong>\u003Cstrong>explores the cost women face in fighting back against misogyny and patriarchy\u003C/strong>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and how they might be complicit in these systems. Through their purgatory, the women aim for liberation…and maybe even a little sweet revenge.\u003C/span>\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>It was with a heavy heart that Flux canceled our production of \u003Cem>Rage Play,\u003C/em> which was set to open soon after the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown occurred in New York City. The health of our team, and the health of our audience and community, came first. The cast and creative team discussed the rehearsal process and design elements, as well as performed excerpts, in an online sharing called Beyond The Scenes.\u003C/p>",{"time":26,"blocks":27,"version":36},1776954657604,[28],{"id":29,"type":30,"data":31,"tunes":33},"7SkoUFvaW8","paragraph",{"text":32},"Rage Play depicts and discusses violence against women and sexual assault.To support our artists and audience, Flux was honored to welcome Mount Sinai Sexual Assault and Violence Intervention Program (SAVI) volunteers at every performance. SAVI volunteers will be on hand to provide discrete and informed emotional support to anyone who needs it, both during the performance and afterward. This partnership emerges from Flux’s core value of and commitment to \u003Ca href=\"https://www.fluxtheatre.org/about/core-values/\">Collective Care\u003C/a>.",{"alignment":34},{"alignment":35},"left","2.30.7",false,[],[],[],[42,51,59,68,76,84,93,101],{"title":43,"content":22,"sort":22,"person":44},"Director",{"first_name":45,"last_name":46,"slug":47,"headshot":48,"bio":49,"pronouns":50},"Lori Elizabeth","Parquet","lori-elizabeth-parquet","ddcde8a6-d369-4d95-937a-19145efcc3de","\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Lori Elizabeth Parquet \u003C/strong>is a Flux Creative Partner and actor, director, and playwright from New Orleans, Louisiana with a B.A. in Theatre Arts from Cornell University. Her New York City stage credits include \u003Cem>Macbeth\u003C/em>, \u003Cem>Dispatches From (A)mended America\u003C/em> (Off-Broadway, Epic Theatre Ensemble), \u003Cem>The Providence of Neighboring Bodies\u003C/em> (Dutch Kills Theater/Ars Nova), \u003Cem>The Honeycomb Trilogy: Sovereign \u003C/em>(Gideon Productions), \u003Cem>Medea \u003C/em>(Phoenix Theatre Ensemble), \u003Cem>Dog Act\u003C/em>, \u003Cem>Ajax in Iraq\u003C/em>, \u003Cem>Honey Fist, Operating Systems\u003C/em> (Flux Theatre Ensemble), and \u003Cem>Republic\u003C/em>, \u003Cem>Baal\u003C/em>, \u003Cem>Murder In the Cathedral\u003C/em> (JACK/Hoi Polloi). She made her international debut performing in \u003Cem>Pillars of Society\u003C/em> at Teater Ibsen in Skien, Norway. She also performed in \u003Cem>The Providence of Neighboring Bodies\u003C/em> at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2018. In 2019 she was nominated for and won the New York Innovative Theatre Award for Best Actress in a Lead Role for her performance in \u003Cem>Operating Systems. \u003C/em>As a director, Lori has directed \u003Cem>Topdog/Underdog \u003C/em>at Princeton Summer Theater and assistant directed The Public Theater’s most recent Shakespeare in the Park productions of \u003Cem>As You Like It\u003C/em>, and \u003Cem>Twelfth Night\u003C/em>.  She was alsoas an acting coach on Disney’s \u003Cem>Hercules\u003C/em>, a Public Works production.  Lori just served as Associate Director of New York City Center’s Encores: Off-center production of Maria Irene Fornes’ \u003Cem>Promenade \u003C/em>and has directed many readings and workshops with Public Works, Flux Theatre Ensemble, The Brooklyn Generator, and other theatre companies across New York City\u003Cem>.\u003C/em>  As a playwright, Lori was selected as one of six featured playwrights for Season Five of The Fire This Time Festival, which produced a reading of her full-length play \u003Cem>In Communion\u003C/em>, and her short plays have been produced through Flux Theatre Ensemble, New York Madness, and other NYC indie theatres and festivals.\u003C/p>","she/her",{"title":52,"content":22,"sort":22,"person":53},"Production Stage Manager",{"first_name":54,"last_name":55,"slug":56,"headshot":57,"bio":58,"pronouns":50},"Jodi M.","Witherell","jodi-m-witherell","fff5a9db-80ee-4d74-8cba-4f4622af87b4","\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Jodi M. Witherell \u003C/strong>was most recently seen as PSM for Flux’s \u003Cem>Operating Systems \u003C/em>and Adam Szymkowiz’s Rare Birds (Red Fern). Favorite credits include: miscellaneous work on \u003Cem>The Miracle Worker\u003C/em> (Queens Theatre) and Mac Rogers’ \u003Cem>Universal Robots\u003C/em> and \u003Cem>The Honeycomb Trilogy\u003C/em> (Gideon Productions); \u003Cem>That Which Isn’t\u003C/em> (Theater Accident), \u003Cem>All Systems Go: Mission 4\u003C/em> (Mission to (dit)Mars); \u003Cem>Moby Dick (\u003C/em>Fireboat Productions); \u003Cem>AM I DEAD? Marian, or the True Tale of Robin Hood, Rizing, Salvage, Once Upon a Bride…, Jane the Plain, Hearts Like Fists, Deinde, Ajax in Iraq\u003C/em> and many others with Flux; as well as shows with The Gallery Players; Avalon Studios; The St. Bart’s Players; Working Man’s Clothes; Pembi Players; Playwright’s Company; Audax Theatre Group; Streetlight Productions and The American Globe Theatre. NYIT Award Winner: Outstanding Stage Manager 2016.\u003C/p>",{"title":60,"content":22,"sort":22,"person":61},"Scenic Designer",{"first_name":62,"last_name":63,"slug":64,"headshot":65,"bio":66,"pronouns":67},"Will","Lowry","will-lowry","a96f3c76-5cd8-4ae5-a7aa-96fc40ed6199","\u003Cp>Will Lowry is a multidisciplinary designer with an MFA in Design from UNC Greensboro. He has been a Flux Creative Partner for a decade, and this is his twentieth show with Flux. He has created over 130 scenic, lighting, projection, and costume designs for theaters along the East Coast and beyond, including productions at Dupont Underground (DC), Mill Mountain Theatre (VA), Warehouse Theatre (SC), Playhouse on Park (CT), Birmingham Children’s Theatre (AL), Palace Theatre/Spirit of the Dance Productions (SC/UK), Curtain Call Theatre (NY), California Theatre Center (CA), Southeast Missouri State University (MO), College of Southern Nevada (NV), and the Sydney Opera House (AUS). In NYC, he contributed to multiple Broadway productions as a studio assistant and graphic designer, and he recently created the digital theatre experience GPS at Lehigh University (PA), where he serves as an Assistant Professor of Theatre. Love to B,L,&P.\u003C/p>","He/Him/His",{"title":69,"content":22,"sort":22,"person":70},"Lighting Designer",{"first_name":71,"last_name":72,"slug":73,"headshot":74,"bio":75,"pronouns":22},"Kia","Rogers","kia-rogers","d01a8112-d5bd-4124-9899-ab856f40dac9","\u003Cp>Kia Rogers (Lighting Designer, she/her) is a New York City based lighting designer for Theatre and Dance.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>International credits: Lighting Designer for The Baby Monitor, Belgrade, Serbia for the Belgrade Pride Festival, and the OnStage Festival and Rome, Italy. Associate Lighting Designer for Slutforart/98.6 inGothenburg, Sweden with Muna Tseng.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>West coast designs: El Portal’s Monroe Forum Theatre, Los Angeles and Z Space, San Francisco. Dance designs: Flamenco Vivo National tours, Forward Motion, Kinesis Project Dance Theatre, Lighting Designer and mentor for Ethical Culture Fieldston High School Dance Company since 2015. Guest Lighting Designer: Lafayette College, Easton PA,  the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC and for the South Carolina Governors School of the Arts, Greenville, SC. Awards: Outstanding Lighting Design for Real, 2019 and Jane The Plain, 2014 by the New York Innovative Theatre Awards, Outstanding Lighting Design for Mr. Toole, 2016 by the Midtown International Theatre Festival.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>Nominations: Operating Systems, 2019, Rizing, 2016 and The Gin Baby, 2014 by the New York Innovative Theatre Awards Kia is a member of Rising Phoenix Repertory and a Creative Partner with Flux Theatre Ensemble since 2010.\u003C/p>",{"title":77,"content":22,"sort":22,"person":78},"Playwright",{"first_name":79,"last_name":80,"slug":81,"headshot":82,"bio":83,"pronouns":50},"Nandita","Shenoy","nandita-shenoy","6bbf98db-c1f3-45e9-9815-7d353a0e4271","\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>NANDITA SHENOY (Playwright)\u003C/strong> is a New York-based writer-actor who loves to hear an audience laugh. She returns to Flux as a playwright after performing in their \u003Cem>Marian, or The True Tale of Robin Hood\u003C/em>. Her play \u003Cem>Washer/Dryer\u003C/em> has been produced multiple times across the country after its world premiere in Los Angeles at East West Players and an Off-Broadway production in which she also starred. Her first full-length, \u003Cem>Lyme Park: An Austonian Romance of an Indian Nature\u003C/em>, was produced by theHegira in Washington, DC, and more recently, her play \u003Cem>Satisfaction\u003C/em> completed a developmental run at the Academy of Dramatic Arts. Her one-acts, \u003Cem>Marrying Nandini,\u003C/em> \u003Cem>By Popular Demand, Rules of Engagement, You Are Here,\u003C/em> and \u003Cem>A More Perfect Date\u003C/em>, have been produced in New York City and regionally. Currently, she is developing her play \u003Cem>Baby Camp\u003C/em>. Nandita has acted in world premieres of new plays by Richard Dresser, Madhuri Shekar, Chelsea Marcantel, Adam Szymkowicz, and Eric Pfeffinger as well as a season at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Nandita is the winner of the 2014 Father Hamblin Award in Playwriting for her commissioned one-act, \u003Cem>Safe Haven\u003C/em>, and a 2018 Mellon Creative Research Fellowship at the University of Washington School of Drama in partnership with Ma-Yi Theater Company. She is a proud member of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab and the Dramatists Guild. Nandita holds a BA in English literature from Yale University. \u003Ca href=\"http://www.nanditashenoy.com/\">nanditashenoy.com\u003C/a>\u003C/p>",{"title":85,"content":22,"sort":22,"person":86},"Fight & Intiimacy Director",{"first_name":87,"last_name":88,"slug":89,"headshot":90,"bio":91,"pronouns":92},"Rocio","Mendez","rocio-mendez","0db6b614-5a0c-4a50-961b-dabbd10f3266","\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Rocio Mendez, \u003Cem>Fight and Intimacy Director, \u003C/em>\u003C/strong>(she/they) is an actor/fight director/teacher from Hell’s Kitchen, NYC. Fight | Intimacy | Movement Direction credits include: \u003Cem>The Wolves\u003C/em> (Actor’s Theater of Louisville), \u003Cem>Love in Hate Nation\u003C/em> (Two River Theater), \u003Cem>The Secret life of Bees\u003C/em> (Atlantic), \u003Cem>Leap and The Net Will Appear\u003C/em> (New Georges), \u003Cem>The Royale (\u003C/em>Geva Theater | The Kitchen), \u003Cem>Southern Promises, Good Friday\u003C/em> (The Flea Theater),\u003Cem> Marian; and The True tale of Robin Hood, Hearts like Fists\u003C/em> (Flux Theatre Ensemble). Film credits include \u003Cem>Bad Writing, Clandestiny, Tied Up, Hurt filling\u003C/em>. Nominee for two New York Innovative Theater Arts Award – Outstanding Choreography and Movement, Winner for Artemis “Women In Action” Film Festival. Rocio is a Team Member of Unkle Dave’s Fight House. \u003Ca href=\"https://www.rociomendez.com/\">www.rociomendez.com\u003C/a>\u003C/p>","they/them",{"title":94,"content":22,"sort":22,"person":95},"Costume Designer",{"first_name":96,"last_name":97,"slug":98,"headshot":99,"bio":100,"pronouns":50},"Karen","Boyer","karen-boyer","50c46fbd-f1ec-4c62-9d57-be9f296e2adc","\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Karen Boyer \u003C/strong>designs and builds costumes in NYC. Past and recent collaborators include Object Collective, The Flea Theater, Pan Asian Repertory Theater, Catherine Galasso, Target Margin Theater, Meta PhysEd,  Little Lord, harunalee, and Yangtze Repertory. For more: \u003Ca href=\"http://karenrachelboyer.com/\">karenrachelboyer.com\u003C/a>\u003C/p>",{"title":102,"content":22,"sort":22,"person":103},"Sound Designer",{"first_name":104,"last_name":105,"slug":106,"headshot":107,"bio":108,"pronouns":109},"Twi","McCallum","twi-mcCallum ","bdedc2b5-5a81-47db-bd5e-37823475d0f7","\u003Cp>Twi McCallum is a Black + femme + queer sound designer raised in beloved Baltimore, MD living in New York. When not working, she loves reading urban fiction novels and watching Food Network. She is thankful to Lori (Director) for calling her on a whim to be part of a strange but riveting production. Recent production credits: Frankenstein at Kansas City Rep, Mirrors at New York Theatre Workshop, My Baby at WP Theatre. “Planted and underqualified; planted not buried”-Michael Todd.\u003C/p>","she/her/he/his/they/them",[111,120,128,136],{"role_name":112,"content":22,"sort":22,"person":113},"MAN",{"first_name":114,"last_name":115,"slug":116,"headshot":117,"bio":118,"pronouns":119},"Chris","Wight","chris-wight","2f8c9d85-06f9-49c6-a7c7-f0065cd2c894","\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Chris Wight\u003C/strong> is a Creative Partner with Flux and a longtime artistic member of Ensemble Studio Theatre. He has composed and performed original music for a number of productions including Flux’s \u003Cem>Dog Act\u003C/em> and \u003Cem>Hearts Like Fists\u003C/em>, and more recently provided guitar accompaniment for Flux’s Food:Soul production of \u003Cem>Fear & Wonder\u003C/em> and \u003Cem>The Elephant Play\u003C/em>.\u003C/p>","he/him",{"role_name":121,"content":22,"sort":22,"person":122},"BEA",{"first_name":123,"last_name":124,"slug":125,"headshot":126,"bio":127,"pronouns":50},"Leila","Ben-Abdallah","leila-ben-abdallah","32c4c774-642d-41c7-9b93-d1d682d008a0","\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Leila Ben-Abdallah\u003C/strong> is a Tunisian-American comedian, actor, and puppeteer. A graduate of the William Esper Studio, Leila has performed with The People’s Improv Theater, The Flea, ScaryMommy.com, CollegeHumor.com, and the NY Arab-American Comedy Festival. Leila served as associate producer for The Box Show and she’s a Resident Artist with New Light Theater Project. Leila is a twin so you’d think she’d be great at sharing, but instead she’s written four solo shows and performed them at the SOLOCOM Fest, NY Fringe Fest, The People’s Improv Theater, and in her living room for her two cats Sophocles and Gloria Steinem. www.leilaben-abdallah.com\u003C/p>",{"role_name":129,"content":22,"sort":22,"person":130},"CeCe",{"first_name":131,"last_name":132,"slug":133,"headshot":134,"bio":135,"pronouns":50},"Alexandra","Curran","alexandra-curran","7ddc52e7-8408-4d79-9e53-9b4ebc57666b","\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Alexandra Curran, \u003C/strong>\u003Cem>\u003Cstrong>CeCe\u003C/strong>\u003C/em>, (she/her/hers) is thrilled to be returning to Flux after performing in their \u003Cem>Marian, or The True Tale of Robin Hood\u003C/em> at The New Ohio. Other NY Theater includes: \u003Cem>Wolf in the River\u003C/em> (Adam Rapp/The Flea), \u003Cem>Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom\u003C/em> (Joel Schumacher/The Flea), \u003Cem>My Dead Friend’s Porn\u003C/em> (NYTF), \u003Cem>Look Me In The Eyes\u003C/em> (ARTC), \u003Cem>Student Body\u003C/em> (The Flea). She made her international debut in Pool Play at the Theater Festival of Kerala, India. TV: Maniac (Netflix), Hawaii 5-0 (CBS). Excited to rage with this fantastic team of humans. \u003C/p>",{"role_name":137,"content":22,"sort":22,"person":138},"AY",{"first_name":139,"last_name":140,"slug":141,"headshot":142,"bio":143,"pronouns":50},"Yeauxlanda","Kay","yeauxlanda-kay","89add7de-31bc-404a-9310-8a48be8317ff","\u003Cp>Yolanda K. Wilkinson, aka \u003Cstrong>Yeauxlanda Kay, \u003C/strong>\u003Cem>\u003Cstrong>Ay\u003C/strong>\u003C/em>, (she/her/hers) has been dubbed ” one of the country’s most respected and talented spoken word artists” by Playbill, “charismatic and funny” by Dan Bacalzo of Theatremania and “Brilliant” by Inside New York. She appeared in the New York Neo-Futurists’ production of \u003Cem>LOCKER #4173b\u003C/em>, winner of the 2011 NYIT Award and called “smart” by \u003Cem>The New York Times\u003C/em>. She has performed at The Public Theatre, Lincoln Center, Cherry Lane, Manhattan Theatre Club, Classical Theatre of Harlem, The National Black Theatre Festival 2001 & 2005, and The New Black Theatre Festival with Suzan Lori Parks and Lynn Nottage in 2010. https://lovefibonaccisyste.wixsite.com/yeauxlandakay\u003C/p>",[],[],[147,153,160,163,169,175],{"id":148,"label":149,"url":22,"sort":150,"is_external":22,"parent":22,"page":151},3,"About",1,{"slug":152},"about",{"id":154,"label":155,"url":22,"sort":150,"is_external":22,"parent":156,"page":158},5,"Retreat",{"id":157},4,{"slug":159},"flux-annual-retreat",{"id":157,"label":161,"url":22,"sort":162,"is_external":22,"parent":22,"page":22},"Programs",2,{"id":164,"label":165,"url":22,"sort":162,"is_external":22,"parent":166,"page":167},6,"Sharing Power",{"id":157},{"slug":168},"sharing-power",{"id":170,"label":171,"url":22,"sort":148,"is_external":22,"parent":172,"page":173},7,"Core Work",{"id":157},{"slug":174},"core-work",{"id":176,"label":177,"url":22,"sort":157,"is_external":22,"parent":178,"page":179},8,"Living Ticket",{"id":157},{"slug":180},"living-ticket"]