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Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company - Defy convention
Antebellum

ANTEBELLUM

by Robert O'Hara
directed by Chay Yew

featuring company member Jessica Frances Dukes, with Jeremy Holm, Jenna Sokolowski and Nick Vienna

WORLD PREMIERE

March 30 – April 26, 2009


Appropriate for ages 16 and up.

OverviewWho's whoSchedule and PricesDirections & Parking

About the Show

In 1939 Gone with the Wind premiered in Atlanta, a city still struggling with the aftershocks of slavery. Meanwhile in Europe, Hitler’s death camps flourished and Great Britain and France declared war on Germany. The romance of Hollywood movies and Berlin cabarets collides with history’s harshest cruelties as a forbidden love transcends the bounds of time, race, and religion.

“O’Hara…is toying with accepted notions about history,
race and sexual identity to make a point about the ways
in which Americans perceive—or fail to perceive—the lessons of the past.”
– The New York Times

 

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Who's Who

PLAYWRIGHT

Robert O'Hara

ROBERT O'HARA received an Obie Award for his direction of In the Continuum, an Off-Broadway hit presented at Woolly Mammoth in 2006. He wrote and directed Oppenheimer Award-winning Insurrection: Holding History and has directed across the U.S. and in South Africa. He has served as Visiting Professor and Artist-in-Residence at numerous universities and theatres and has written screenplays for such producers as Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee.

Schedule & Prices

Prices:

 
Section A
Section B
Previews (first week)
Mon 8pm
Tues 8pm
Wed 8pm
$36
$26
Thurs 8pm
$36
$26
Sat 8pm
$55
$45
Regular run:
Wed 8pm
$48
$38
Thurs 8pm
$48
$38
Fri 8pm
$55
$45
Sat 8pm
$60
$50
Sun 2pm
$55
$45
Sun 7pm
$48
$38


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Directions & Parking

Address:

641 D Street, NW (7th & D)
Washington, DC 20004

Nearby landmarks:

Woolly Mammoth is located in the bustling Penn Quarter neighborhood on D street between Oyamel and Rasika restaurants, around the corner from TicketPlace and down the street from Shakespeare Theatre Company's Lansburgh theatre. We are two blocks north of the National Archives and National Gallery of Art and 2 blocks south of the Verizon Center and the Smithsonian American Art Museum/Portrait Gallery.

Metro

Archives-Navy Memorial-Penn Quarter (Yellow & Green lines) — 1 block away
Gallery Place (Red, Yellow & Green lines) — 2 blocks away, use Verizon Center exit to 7th & F.

Metrobus

The 70, 71, D1, D3, and D6 buses stop at the corner of 7th & E.
The P1, P2, P6, 13A, 13B, 13F, 13G, and 54 buses stop at 7th & Pennsylvania.
Not all of these buses have the same route for both directions, so please use WMATA's Trip Planner at www.wmata.com

Parking

Interpark/Liberty Place, directly across from Woolly's entrance, offers a $10 rate if you mention you're going to Woolly Mammoth.

There is limited metered street parking in the Penn Quarter near Woolly Mammoth, in addition to the following parking garages:

  • Interpark Liberty Place, 325 7th St. NW. Open late during Woolly productions, $10 evening Woolly rate.*
    • Please note: Interpark is closed on the following performance dates: Memorial Day (May 26, 2008), New Year's Eve (December 31, 2008) and New Year's Day (January 1, 2009)
  • Colonial Parking, 601 Pennsylvania Ave (entrance at 6th & C). Open until midnight Monday - Saturday and until 11 pm Sunday, $7 flat evening and weekend rate.*
  • Interpark, 616 E St NW. Open until 11pm Sunday - Friday and 1am Saturday, $9/hour (maximum $18).

* Limited facilities for mobility-impaired patrons; please click here for more information on accessibility.

Garage prices and hours subject to change without notice

Driving Directions

From Virginia via I-395: Take the 12TH STREET exit toward L'enfant Promenade. Take the ramp toward L'Enfant promenade .Turn right onto D ST SW. Turn left onto 7TH St SW. Turn RIGHT onto D ST NW.

From Virginia via I-66: Take I-66 into the District when it becomes US-50. Turn left onto 7th St NW. Turn right onto D St NW.

From Bethesda, Rockville, Potomac and points west: Reach Wisconsin Ave., NW via either Interstate 270 and River Road or Rockville Pike (which becomes Wisconsin Ave.) Remain on Wisconsin Ave. until reaching Massachusetts Ave., NW just south of the National Cathedral. Take Massachusetts all the way to 9th St. Turn right on 9th. Turn left on D St.

From Rt. 50, Baltimore and points east: Reach New York Ave., NE via either Rt. 50, I95 or the Baltimore Washington Parkway. Remain on New York Ave. all the way downtown to 6th St., NW. Turn left on 6th St. Turn right on D St.

 

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Jessica Frances Dukes in Starving (2005)

 

Jenna Sokolowski in She Stoops to Comedy (2007)

 


Woolly Mammoth would like to thank the following patrons for their generous support of Antebellum:

Martha Blaxall & Joe Dickey
The Greene-Milstein Family Foundation
Karen Lefkowitz & Allen Neyman
Hazel C. Moore
Sheldon D. & Barbara Repp
Julie Rosenthal & Mark McCaffrey