come see Jesus Hopped the "A"-Train, put up by the Dramatics Society and AHANA Collective Theater!! Oct 21-24 at 7:30! Tickets on sale now!

Director: Haris Lefteri
Cast:
Angel Cruz.......Juan Rodriguez
Lucius Jenkins.....Harry Jean Conte
Mary-Jane Hanrahan.....Elise Hudson
Valdez...................Eric Asuo-Mante
Charlie D'Amico..........Jacob Sherburne
Prison Guard.............Steven Kreager
Inmate #1..............Tim Kopacz
Inmate #2..............Yuriy Pavlish

Stage Manager: Pardees Safizadeh
Assistant Stage Manager: Nzinga Williams

Production Manager: Christina Lepri
Set Design: Han Cho
Lighting Design: Sarah Lang
Costume Design: Lauren Hofer
Sound Design: Ricky Greenwood




"Jesus Hopped the A Train" is a prison drama that touches on issues of race, God, appearances, sanity and insanity, death penalty, morals, religion and more. It is a play that everyone should come see in order to open up their mind to a completely different and very uncomfortable world that exists outside of BC. The language is intense and the scenes are violent, but nothing beyond the harsh reality of prison.

Angel Cruz is a thirty-year-old, Puertorican bike messenger from NYC who has lost his best friend to a religious cult. At the opening of the play, he is in his second night of incarceration, awaiting trial for shooting the leader of that cult in the "ass." He is on his knees, alone and terrified, trying to say a prayer he no longer remembers to a God he has all but forgotten. Angel's public defender is Mary Jane Hanrahan, still relatively young but very nearly disillusioned. At their first meeting, she mistakes Angel for another case. Wounded by her pride and Angel's sharp attacks, she mangles this initial interview and walks out. A crisis of conscience and an unresolved connection to her childhood brings her back, and Angel's heartfelt, persuasive arguments against the cult leader persuade her to champion his cause. By this time, the cult leader, Reverend Kim, has died on the operating table, and the charge against Angel is now murder. Angel has been beaten regularly by other inmates and is discovered in his cell barely conscious with a bed sheet tied around his neck. He is transferred to a special twenty-three-hour lockdown wing of protective custody. His jailer is Valdez, a brutally direct prison guard who believes in a world of black and white only. No grey areas permitted. Valdez has taken the post of Charlie D'amico, a guard Angel never meets. For one hour a day, Angel experiences daylight from a cage on the Riker's Island Prison roof. His only source of human contact is the lone inmate who is also in protective custody. Lucius Jenkins, a.k.a. "the Black Plague," works out furiously in the cage next to Angel. A sociopathic serial killer awaiting extradition to Florida, Lucius pauses from his workouts only to chain smoke and to "save" Angel. Lucius Jenkins has found God, and Angel's life and the course of his trial will be changed forever.

The play goes up on October 21 - 24th in the Robsham Theater, Bonn Studio. Tickets are on sale now for $10 in the Box Office of Robsham.

Do not miss this great opportunity. It will really make you question many things even about your personal life. (less info)