by Emily DeVoti
Produced by New Georges and New Feet Productions
When someone says they really got their hands dirty working on something, it’s usually a figure of speech. Not so for Milk by Emily DeVoti. The play takes place on a small, family-run dairy farm and, in the course of several years of development, we made it literal. At a development workshop at the Orchard Project, we rehearsed in fields and farmhouses, we milked cows at a local dairy farm. At the beginning of rehearsals for the Off-Broadway production, we spent a few days at Hawthorne Valley Farm where we did chores and witnessed the birth of a calf. While MILK is fundamentally a parable – not at all naturalistic – having dirt on our hands from our experiences on farms informed every choice we made, profoundly shaping what the play became.
Cast: Jordan Baker, Carolyn Baeumler, Peter Bradbury, Jon Krupp, Anna Kull and Noah Robbins.
Designers: Amy Altadonna, Lenore Doxsee, Emily Pepper and Susan Zeman Rogers.
"The director, Jessica Bauman, stages action deftly (especially nice is a wordless bit in which pails are handed back and forth from the house to the barn)."
"A New Georges–New Feet collaboration premiering at Here, directed by Jessica Bauman, Milk is rich, unexpected, and often enthrallingly vivid."
-The Village Voice
