THE ALIENS

THE ALIENS
APRIL 4-14, 2024

Written By Annie Baker
Directed by Toby Vera Bercovici
The Helen Theatre at Playhouse Square

In THE ALIENS, we meet two young men behind a coffee shop who talk music and Bukowski until a lonely high school student arrives and they decide to teach him everything they know. The story is a seemingly quiet study rooted in alienation, and a powerful observation of a lost generation. The play is set in Vermont, as are three of Baker's other plays, Body Awareness, Circle Mirror Transformation, and Nocturama. THE ALIENS premiered Off-Broadway in 2010 and won the Obie Award for Best New American Play, with Baker's Circle Mirror Transformation. 

"This beautiful, small yet significant play centers young men with huge belief in themselves, huge visions for who they can become, and yet are quite lost. This play is nothing more than the words, the silences, and the three actors who embody them; and yet, that is everything," says Bercovici.

CAST:
Evan - Quinn Quilty Montgomery
Jasper - Nicholas Taylor Hassan
KJ - Jackson Coughlin