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(New York – September 29, 2014) – Tim Sika presents The Answer-Killing Question Buys a Crisis, a world premiere satire on educational institutions at all levels by Barry Germansky. Cihangir Duman directs a cast of four, including Rafa Pérez, Damon Trammell, Jillian K. Waters, and Matt Tracy. Performances will be staged at The Crown Theater at The Producers' Club (358 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036) from October 3-26, 2014.
Although Western society has long promoted institutionalized education, there have been relatively few inquiries into the nature of this bureaucratic form of learning and how it forces students and teachers to maintain arbitrary standards of knowledge. The Answer-Killing Question Buys a Crisis chronicles the struggles of a courageous university student as he rebels against his school's corrupt totalitarian regime and its imposition of a single answer to all possible questions. The school reflects the singular mindset of society as a whole, and the student's professors consider his actions to be criminal. He soon realizes that fighting for his principles is only the beginning; he will soon be fighting for his life, as well. To make matters worse, his best friend and long-time co-conspirator may not be who he says he is. The play is a twenty-first century hybrid of Nineteen Eighty-Four and Dead Poets Society.
The Answer-Killing Question Buys a Crisis plays for 11 performances from October 3-26, 2014. Performances are Friday-Sunday at 8pm; plus, Monday, October 13 & Tuesday, October 14 @ 8pm.
Tickets are $20 and can be purchased by visiting BrownPaperTickets.com.
The run time for The Answer-Killing Question Buys a Crisis is 100 minutes, no intermission.
The Answer-Killing Question Buys a Crisis is presented by Tim Sika. Set Designer: Jason Bolan; Lighting Designer: Mark Hankla; Stage Manager: Janis Costa Deedy; Publicist: Paul Siebold/Off Off PR.
Barry Germansky (playwright), a playwright and screenwriter born in Toronto, has been writing ever since he could pick up a pencil. He graduated summa cum laude from York University's Humanities Department in June 2013 and won its prestigious 25th Annual Book Prize for the student graduating with the highest grade point average. In December 2013, he produced his Off-Off-Broadway play, Follow the Tracks We Forgot to Finish, with Conor Romero, who starred as the titular actor's eldest son on NBC's "The Michael J. Fox Show." He is currently writing and executive producing a TV series for Amazon Prime called "Smitty's" with Brandon K. Hampton, producing a short film called "Silent" and a feature film called A Journey to a Journey with Tim Sika, and producing a second feature film called The Reasonably Unreasonable Neighborhood with John Henry Richardson. On November 15, 2014, he will present his York University Humanities master's thesis, "The Generational Gaze: Nicholas Ray's Anti-Capitalist Rebellion through the Development of a New Film Syntax," at the British Association for American Studies' postgraduate conference "Protest: Resistance and Dissent in America" at the University of Sussex.
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