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SLEEP is an immersive theatre work based on the short story by internationally acclaimed author Haruki Murakami. A young Japanese housewife suffers a terrifying dream and then suddenly stops sleeping. In a new nightmarish and beautiful sleep-deprived world, the constrictions of her prescribed role melt away, releasing a new self who takes risks, indulges in what is forbidden, devours Tolstoy and chocolate, and embraces what is unpredictable and dangerous. This seeming "escape" however, leads her to a world of lawlessness and danger that she never expected. Sleep examines how we push against the constraints of everyday life, transgress and rebel, and free fall through broken boundaries set up by society around us. Ripe Time is one of only three companies worldwide to receive permission to adapt Murakami’s work for the stage.

SLEEP had its NYC premiere at BAM Next Wave Festival November 29-December 2, 2017 in Brooklyn, NY. The World Premiere was at Annenberg Center Live in Philadelphia October 27-28, 2017. SLEEP also appeared at Yale Repertory Theatre's No Boundaries Series, March 1-3, 2018.

Commissioned by BAM, Annenberg Center for the Arts and Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles, CA.  Sleep was developed with the support of PlayCo at the Japan Society and at the Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep.

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• Annenberg Center Live (Philadelphia, PA) - World Premiere

• BAM Next Wave Festival (Brooklyn, NY) - NY Premiere

• Yale Repertory Theatre, No Boundaries Series (New Haven, CT)

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Original Score Composed by New Born Trio (Katie Down, Miguel Frasconi, Jeffrey Lependorf)

Set Design by Susan Zeeman Rogers

Projections Design by Hannah Wasileski

Lighting Design by Jiyoun Chang

Sound Design by Matt Stine

Costume Design by Ilona Somogyi

Production Stage Manager Lisa McGinn

Ensemble: Akiko Aizawa, Brad Culver, Takemi Kitamura, Paula McGonagle, Jiehae Park, Saori Tsukada

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• 6 Performers

• 3 Musicians

• 1 Director

• 1 Stage Manager

• 1 Production Manager

• 1 Technical Director

• 1 Audio Supervisor

• 1 Lighting Supervisor

• 1 Video Supervisor

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Rachel Dickstein

Rachel Dickstein devised, choreographed, and directed the world premieres of the critically acclaimed THE WORLD IS ROUND (BAM-Fisher, Obie Award, Special Citation, Finalist for 2014 Richard Rodgers Award, based on Gertrude Stein, composed by Heather Christian), SEPTIMUS AND CLARISSA (Joe A. Calloway, Drama Desk, Drama League nominations, adapted by Ellen McLaughlin from Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway) at the Baruch Performing Arts Center, FIRE THROWS (based on ANTIGONE) at 3LD ART & Technology Center, INNOCENTS at the Ohio Theatre (based on Edith Wharton's THE HOUSE OF MIRTH, BETROTHED (based on stories by Jhumpa Lahiri, Chekhov and S. Ansky) at the Ohio Theatre. Other Ripe Time projects include THE SECRET OF STEEP RAVINES at P.S. 122, THE HOLY MOTHER OF HADLEY NEW YORK by Barbara Wiechmann and co-produced with New Georges, and THE PALACE AT 4 A.M. (based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe and the work of photographer Sophie Calle) presented at HERE Arts Center. Other recent directing projects include Kamala Sankaram and Susan Yankowitz's opera THUMBPRINT (LA Opera, Prototype), Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd's IN WHAT LANGUAGE? (Asia Society, REDCAT, PICA) and university productions of Naomi Iizuka's ANON(YMOUS), Sarah Ruhl's EURYDICE and THREE SISTERS, Sophie Treadwell's MACHINAL and Ellen McLaughlin's version of THE TROJAN WOMEN at Purchase College Conservatory of Theatre Arts. Other new works for New York Theatre Workshop, New Georges, The Ohio Theatre, Lincoln Center Theatre Directorʼs Lab, Drama League Director's Project and Seattleʼs Annex Theatre. Winner of the 2015 LPTW Lucille Lortel Award. Nominated for the 2014 Alan Schneider Award and the 2014 and 2015 Doris Duke Impact Award. Residencies at the Drama League, LMCC, JCC in Manhattan, Ko Festival. Former resident director at New Dramatists and Assistant Director to Martha Clarke nationally and internationally. Recipient of commissions from BAM, CTG, NYSCA, MAP, P.S. 122 and the NEA/TCG Director's Fellowship. BA, Yale College. Training: DellArte International (in Bali, Indonesia), Complicite, Norman Taylor (Lecoq.)  Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance at the Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Purchase College, SUNY (2011-present). Rachel is developing SLEEP, an adaptation of Haruki Murakami's story with Naomi Iizuka, a project that appeared in workshop at Berkeley Rep's Ground Floor and at the Japan Society in collaboration with the PlayCo. It will receive its NYC premiere and national tour in 2017-18. She is also developing TRACE, a new solo work with performer Laura Butler Rivera, writer Dipika Guha and designer Susan Zeeman Rogers for production in 2018.

Ripe Time

RIPE TIME is an OBIE-winning theatre company founded in 2000 and led by director and deviser Rachel Dickstein. It develops and presents ensemble based theatre with rich language, visual power, and physical rigor. It tells stories from the inside out, using the language of memory and imagination to trace how women negotiate identity in the face of cultural constrictions. Inspired by the most searing novels and stories, it creates original multidisciplinary events for the 21st century celebrating women’s dreams and awakenings.

Since their founding, Ripe Time has created large-scale ensemble works that have received three OBIE Awards and nominations from the Drama Desk, the Drama League, and the Joe A. Calloway Award for outstanding direction. Its work has been commissioned by BAM, CTG, and Annenberg Center for the Arts and presented at such venues as BAM-Fisher, the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, the Baruch Performing Arts Center, 3LD Art and Technology Center, PS 122, and the Clark Studio at USITT Prague Quadrennial, an international exhibit featuring excellence in design from across the globe. Ripetime.org