"Your work with When Last We Flew was a piece of music, perfect pauses, beautifully realized characters every one, gorgeous watchful chorus/prop movers, collectively expressing so many ways to love, to name & defy oppression, flying towards freedom with awkward human wings.”

-audience member at When Last We Flew, December 2018

complete production history

2013

August-September: The Tragedy of Othello, adapted from the Shakespeare by Ellen Morbyrne (performed Holyoke and Hadley, MA)

2014

April: Hand Grenades, by Monica Giordano (performed Ithaca Fringe Festival; winner: Audience Favorite)

September: The Lion and the Clown: A Rumi Lovesong for Beauty and the Beast, by Ellen Morbyrne (performed Northampton and Holyoke, MA)

October: In Time, by Emma Jimerson, short film (performed NCTV short film festival; winner: Nia Steiner for Best Actress); still available through our Photos & Videos page

November: The Great Adventures of Samson, by Monica Giordano, HousePlay staged reading (performed Northampton, MA)

2015

January: From the Sea to Somewhere Else, by Monica Giordano, HousePlay staged reading (performed Northampton, MA)

April: When the System Swallows You, by Trenda Loftin, HousePlay staged reading (performed Northampton, MA)

January-September: The Life and Death of Queen Margaret development residency and staged readings (shared Hadley and Holyoke, MA)

August-December: RLTours Presents The Lion and the Clown: A Rumi Lovesong for Beauty and the Beast, by Ellen Morbyrne (performed Holyoke, MA; Glenford, NY; Brattleboro, VT; Providence, RI; Sommerville, MA)

2016

July: The Life and Death of Queen Margaret, co-adapted from the Shakespeare/co-created by Toby Vera Bercovici & Dan Morbyrne (performed Northampton, MA)

October: The Life and Death of Queen Margaret, by Shakespeare/Bercovici/D. Morbyrne (performed Colby College, Waterville, ME)

2017

March: Death Wings, by Bess Welden, HousePlay staged reading (performed Northampton, MA)

July: She Kills Monsters, by Qui Nguyen (performed Easthampton, MA)

July: The Life and Death of Queen Margaret, by Shakespeare/Bercovici/D. Morbyrne (performed Springfield and Great Falls/Turners Falls, MA)

August: The Life and Death of Queen Margaret, by Shakespeare/Bercovici/D. Morbyrne (performed Theater for the New City, NYC)

2018

February: When Last We Flew, by Harrison David Rivers, staged reading (performed Holyoke, MA)

April: The *Annotated* Taming: Or, Out of the Saddle, Into the Dirt, adapted from the Shakespeare by Toby Vera Bercovici, staged reading & live concert (performed Northampton, MA)

September: She Kills Monsters, by Qui Nguyen (performed Holyoke and Ashfield, MA)

December: When Last We Flew, by Harrison David Rivers (performed Northampton, MA)

2019

June: When the Mind’s Free development residency (Dragon’s Egg Studio, CT)

July-August: Far Reaches, by Ellen Morbyrne, development residency and staged readings (shared Northampton, MA)

October: Athena, by Gracie Gardner (performed Northampton, MA)

December: When the Mind’s Free, by its ensemble led by Toby Vera Bercovici, sharing of work-in-progress (shared Great Falls/Turners Falls, MA)

2020

June: The Lion and the Clown: A Rumi Lovesong for Beauty and the Beast, by E. Morbyrne, live Zoom-staged reading (recording still available through our Current Productions page)

August: The Life and Death of Queen Margaret, by Shakespeare/Bercovici/D. Morbyrne, live Zoom-staged reading (recording still available through our Current Productions page)

2021

December: Far Reaches (The Audioplay), by Ellen Morbyrne, (still available through our Current Productions page)

2022

May: When the Mind’s Free, by its ensemble & Bercovici, development residency (Sunderland, MA)

July: The Gentle Villainy of Richard III, Troubler of the Poor World’s Peace, adapted from the Shakespeare by Toby Vera Bercovici, staged reading (performed Northampton, MA)

2023

June: When the Mind’s Free, by its ensemble & Bercovici, staged readings (Great Falls/Turners Falls, MA)

August: Pussy Sludge, by Gracie Gardner (performed Easthampton, MA)

2024

July-August: When the Mind’s Free, by its ensemble & Bercovici, (performed Great Falls/Turners Falls, Northampton, Easthampton, and Holyoke, MA)

September: When the Mind’s Free, by its ensemble & Bercovici, (performed Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH)