Our mission is to create fantastic and surreal plays to explore the struggle and hilarity of everyday life. Working collaboratively, we seek to tell unusual stories while reinventing the theatrical language in which we tell them.
Ateh’s inaugural production of Aimee Bender’s The Girl in the Flammable Skirt featured freakish characters with fairytale deformities, struggling to find their place in a weird and wonderful world. This season’s productions of The Girl Detective, adapted by Bridgette Dunlap from the acclaimed short story by Kelly Link, and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, adapted by Ms. Dunlap from the Lewis Carroll classic, feature reluctant heroes learning to make sense of the chaos surrounding them. The Girl Detective re-envisions the iconic sleuth on a desperate journey to find her missing mother, leading her to an extraordinary experience in the underworld. It is an exploration of the strangeness and pain of loss. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland follows a young adventurer who learns she isn’t at the mercy of the world around her, but a force to be reckoned with herself.
The Ateh Theater Group is committed to not only creating daring theater, but also to arts education as a means of engaging young people in their studies and of preserving the American theater’s vitality through the cultivation of a diverse audience for innovative work. To that end, The Ateh has taught in an alternative school for high risk students in Trenton, New Jersey . We offer free classes to New York City public school students and free tickets to low-income theatergoers. In March, we will host a benefit performance of Alice for The Brooklyn Bureau of Community Service, an organization serving children at risk of foster care placement and disabled adults.
"as this mesmerizing play progresses, it comes to resemble a dream ... In the under world, words and images are slippery, memory is unstable, and things that mean the most to us (like the color of our lover's eyes) threaten to disappear faster than the Girl Detective can change disguises."
-Katie Baker, The Village Voice
"Thanks to crisp direction, winning performances by a talented cast, and above all, brilliant choreography, the Ateh Theater Group’s production, at the beautiful Connelly Theater in Manhattan’s East Village, is a pleasure."
-Jon Sobel, Blogcritics
Anyone who has read Lewis Carroll’s original knows that his convoluted rhymes and incessant puns can be daunting. But Bridgette Dunlap, the writer and director of this adaptation, has created so much stunning visual comedy that children don’t need to understand every word.
-The New York Times
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