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The Wooster Group: Nayatt School Redux

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One of the world’s most innovative and influential experimental theatre companies that started the incredible change in theatre over the last 50 years comes to The Coronet Theatre: New York’s The Wooster Group.

Nayatt School Redux is a contemporary reworking of Nayatt School, one of The Wooster Group’s most famous productions, created by visionary director Elizabeth LeCompte and autobiographical monologist Spalding Gray. The original Nayatt School launched Gray’s prestigious career.

Nayatt School Redux opens with Wooster Group member Kate Valk, who reveals newly-restored archival recordings of Gray’s original performance, mixed with her own stories. Gray described his beginnings in the theatre and played LPs from his record collection including an LP of T.S. Eliot’s The Cocktail Party. The Group’s current company reinvent scenes from the original production, culminating in the climactic sequences of The Cocktail Party.

The Wooster Group is a New York-based experimental theatre company founded in the late 1970s by Elizabeth LeCompte, Spalding Gray, Ron Vawter, Jim Clayburgh, Willem Dafoe, Kate Valk, and Peyton Smith. Renowned for its avant-garde, multimedia approach that blends classic texts, technology, and live performance, the group has become a major influence on contemporary theatre worldwide. This is a rare opportunity to see these trailblazing innovators in London.

 

Directed by: Elizabeth LeCompte

Composed by: The Company

Performers: Ari Fliakos, Andrew Maillet, Michaela Murphy, Suzzy Roche, Scott Shepherd, Maura Tierney, Kate Valk, Omar Zubair

Sound & Original Music: Eric Sluyter & Omar Zubair

Lighting: David Sexton

Set: Elizabeth LeCompte

Original Video and 16mm Nayatt School film: Ken Kobland

Additional Video: Wladimiro Woyno, Irfan Brkovic, Andrew Maillet, Yudam Hyung Seok Jeon

Assistant Director: Michaela Murphy

Costumes: Elizabeth LeCompte & Enver Chakartash

Dramaturg: Matthew Dipple

Excerpts from The Cocktail Party used by permission of the T.S. Eliot Estate

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Genre:

Theatre

Performances:

Fri 17 – Sat 25 Apr; 7:30pm

Sun 19, Wed 22, Fri 24 & Sat 25 Apr; 3:30pm

Auditorium

Running Time:

Approx 80 mins with no interval

Age Guidance:

14+

Content Advisory:

Contains sex references and references to mental illness and suicide

Tickets:

£60, £50, £40, £30, £20 standard

Up to 20% off for members

Concessions

Group Offer

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Genre:

Theatre

Performances:

Fri 17 – Sat 25 Apr; 7:30pm

Sun 19, Wed 22, Fri 24 & Sat 25 Apr; 3:30pm

Auditorium

Running Time:

Approx 80 mins with no interval

Age Guidance:

14+

Content Advisory:

Contains sex references and references to mental illness and suicide

Tickets:

£60, £50, £40, £30, £20 standard

Up to 20% off for members

Concessions

Group Offer

Access Information

Additional Information

Photo by Spencer Ostrander

The Wooster Group
The Wooster Group is a New York–based experimental theatre company founded in the late 1970s by Elizabeth LeCompte, Spalding Gray, Ron Vawter, Jim Clayburgh, Willem Dafoe, Kate Valk, and Peyton Smith.

They are known for their avant-garde approach to theatre, blending classical texts, found media, technology, and live performance to create highly innovative, deconstructed works. Their productions often challenge linear storytelling, incorporating video projections, layered soundscapes, and multimedia collage to explore how meaning is made in performance.

The group emerged from the downtown New York art scene, based at The Performing Garage in SoHo, New York City which remains their home base. Over the decades, they’ve become one of the most influential ensembles in contemporary performance, inspiring generations of experimental artists and theatre-makers worldwide.

 

Elizabeth LeCompte
Elizabeth LeCompte is a director of experimental theater, dance, and video. A founding member of The Wooster Group, she has composed, designed, and directed over forty works, and is known both for taking apart and reworking classics such as Hamlet, The Emperor Jones, and The Hairy Ape and constructing new works from scratch.

 

Kate Valk
Kate Valk joined The Wooster Group in 1979. Since her first appearance in Route 1 & 9, an adaptation of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, she has appeared in every Wooster Group show. She has also worked in film. She has founded two arts education programs including the Wooster Group’s Summer Institute.

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