MADMAN, a solo show by Jake Robertson

Date
Feb 17, 2019, 8:00 pm8:00 pm

Details

Event Description

MADMAN, a solo show by Jake Robertson, presented by Princeton’s Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures in collaboration with the Lewis Center for the Arts

Dates/Times: February 16 at 2 p.m. & 8 p.m. and February 17 at 8 p.m.

Location: Class of 1970 Theater at Whitman College on the Princeton University campus

Description: Alumnus and actor Jake Austin Robertson returns to Princeton with his award-winning solo show MADMAN, a reinvention of his 2015 theater thesis. In this new production, it’s 2007 and the 14-year-old Jake is secretly in love with another boy in his class. He suffers in isolation, hiding his queerness from a loving but flawed family and a conservative smalltown community, until he discovers a magic Russian book that leads him on an unbelievable journey to escape from himself. MADMAN is a tale where pain runs headfirst into laughter; where love is married to lies; and where absurdity is vigorously making out with reality.

Free and open to the public, advance tickets recommended

For more information and tickets: online at tickets.princeton.edu, by phone at (609) 258-9220 or in person at Frist or Roth box office

 

Tickets available starting Feb. 4 through University Ticketing [will add direct link to Ticketing site on Feb. 4]

Sponsored by Princeton's Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Office of Campus Life, Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students, Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, and LGBT Center.

Jake Austin Robertson is a member of Actor’s Equity. He is an actor, improviser, writer and VO artist in NYC. He has an MA in Acting from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and a BA in Slavic Studies from Princeton. He most recently performed in Babette’s Feast Off-Broadway at Theatre at St. Clement’s. Raised by two moms in Lombard, Illinois, he is fluent in Russian and Disco.

MADMAN, written and performed by Jake Austin Robertson, was presented last fall at United Solo, the world’s largest solo theater Festival. In addition to being a Festival Bestseller, MADMAN was selected as All About Solo’s Critic’s Choice and received two 5-star reviews: All About Solo described the show as “the stuff that true art is made of” and “a feat for Jake and a treat for us.”

Sponsor
Slavic Languages and Literatures, Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Office of Campus Life, Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students, Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, and LGBT Center