FUSION Theatre Company is elated to announce our 2025 Autumn Season lineup! Featuring WAKEY, WAKEY by Will Eno from September 11–21, ONE FLEA SPARE by Naomi Wallace from November 13–30, and 1st STREET CABARET curated by FUSION on December 7.
WAKEY, WAKEY
by WILL ENO | SEPTEMBER 11–21
Performances will be Thursdays & Fridays at 7 PM, Saturdays at 2 PM & 7 PM, and Sundays at 3 PM. Opening night features a pre-show reception with doors opening one hour prior to curtain.
"A work of humor, humanity and grace that makes you want to hug your lover, your neighbor and maybe an usher on the way out… Eno breaks the fourth wall but here he also suggests a wondrous fifth…" —Variety
"Is it now? I thought I had more time." These first words in Will Eno's play are spoken by Guy, a man who knows, like all of us, on some level, that he will eventually die. Eno’s funny and moving play offers one of the most profound meditations and gifts that any playwright has given on what it means to be a human being. A grounding and authentic response to the goings-on in our world, Wakey, Wakey reminds us of what this life is about, including the great leveler of us all.
“To be honest…I can tend to float away from the really, really simple important things and kind of get distracted by the hoo-ha of modern life. I hope there are people like me who just need sometimes to be reminded of those simple things and try to connect them in a calm but also urgent way.” —Will Eno
Wakey, Wakey premiered at the Signature Theatre in New York City in February 2017 under the direction of Will Eno. The work marked his completed Residency Five Fellowship at the Signature Theatre, which premiered his play Title and Deed in 2012, The Open House in 2014, and Wakey, Wakey in 2017. He has received an Obie Award, Drama Desk Award, and his play Thom Pain was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
FUSION veteran Robb Sisneros (Witch, The Real Inspector Hound, Meteor Shower) directs John San Nicolas (Witch, Life X 3, Old Times) in the role of Guy and Alicia Lueras Maldonado (Life X 3 and The Seven 2024) as Lisa.
ONE FLEA SPARE
by NAOMI WALLACE | NOVEMBER 13–23 in ABQ & NOVEMBER 29–30 in TAOS
Performances will be Thursdays & Fridays at 7 PM, Saturdays at 2 PM & 7 PM, and Sundays at 3 PM. Opening night features a pre-show reception with doors opening one hour prior to curtain. Additional performances will be at Taos Center for the Arts on Saturday, November 29, at 7 PM and Sunday, November 30, at 2 PM.
“A tough and transcendent piece of proper grown-up theatre.” —The Guardian
The wealthy Snelgraves are shut up in their house. It’s 1665, and there’s a pandemic of sorts—the bubonic plague has descended upon London. The couple has only hours left of a 28-day quarantine when their home is mysteriously invaded by a sailor, Bunce and, Morse, a young neighbor girl. With the arrival of these pesky newcomers, the Snelgraves' quarantine must begin all over again. As the shut-in days drag on, the boundaries that previously defined life are rewritten and abandoned. Sound familiar?
“[Naomi Wallace] speaks to, and for, the body as eloquently as any American writer since Walt Whitman.” —American Theatre
Naomi Wallace’s One Flea Spare made its New York premiere at The Public Theater in March of 1997 and won the OBIE Award for best play. She is also the recipient of a genius grant from the MacArthur Foundation, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize (twice), and an Arts and Letters Award in Literature. Her raison d’ étre as a playwright is to “write as though the lives of others depend on it.” Uniquely, her plays are characterized by a fluidity of time. “I feel like the past and present—that there’s always an active kind of liquid relationship between the two. And, how in our lives the past at times can seem far more present and relevant or alive inside us...” The prescience of Wallace’s One Flea Spare, given our collective experience of the 2020 pandemic, is beyond uncanny as the play acts as an ultimatum, urgent and intense, for the present moment.
The cast features Jacqueline Reid (Darcy Snelgrave), David Sinkus (William Snelgrave), Matthew Van Wettering (Kabe), and Jayce Ross (Morse). We also welcome Arron Shiver (Bunce) back to the boards since his turn as Stanley in FUSION’s 2003 production of A Streetcar Named Desire. In the interim, Arron’s creative talents have led him to writing and acting for the screen, earning him extensive credits in both television and film. FUSION Co-Founder Laurie Thomas directs the production.
1st STREET CABARET
CURATED BY FUSION | DECEMBER 7 | 3 PM
Curated by FUSION.
1st STREET CABARET: Featuring Albuquerque's Finest Local Talent
Join FUSION friends and special guests for a celebration of the performing arts, honoring the finest local talent in a production that will showcase the Best of Albuquerque!
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