The Weavers

MIT Theater & MIT Future Fest Presents

A new staging of Gerhard Hauptmann’s

The Weavers

Directed by Jay Scheib

An extended reality (XR) ensemble adventure for our rapidly post-literary, post-creative world.

Based on the Nobel Prize Winning play by Gerhard Hauptmann, The Weavers centers a community of textile workers and their equally rattled bosses whose understanding of labor, sense of faith, and humanity is pressed to the brink by the unstoppable march of mechanization, automation, and the free-fall collapse of empathy. #WillAItakemyjob

With the generous support of the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST), and MIT FUTURE FEST

Starring Brad Burgess, Parker Jennings, Cristhian Mancinas-García, Sally Rose Zuckert, Jorge Rubio, Mitra Sharif, Hui Ying Wen, and Hugo Nelson; with stage designed by Joseph Lark-Riley; video and interactive design by Peter Torpey with Anna Borou Yu; camera operated by Yanyi Liu; clothes design by Jonathan Fajors; sound design by Christian Frederickson; lighting design by Xinyu Xu; in collaboration with director of production Maggie Moore; stage manager Molly Bercutt; dramaturg Zishan Ugurlu

When: Sept 30 - October 3rd – 7pm (circa 85 minutes)

• Wednesday, September 30 at 7pm

• Thursday, October 1 at 7pm
• Friday, October 2 at 7pm, MIT Future Fest Premiere
• Saturday, October 3 at 2:30pm
• Saturday, October 3 at 7pm

Where: Building W97 at MIT - 345 Vassar Street in Cambridge, MA 02139

Tickets: Reserve Free Tickets Here via Eventbrite

Or: Purchase an MIT Future Fest Festival Pass Here

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