IMMORTAL: THE GILGAMESH VARIATIONS

The Bushwick Starr is heating up this month with IMMORTAL: THE GILGAMESH VARIATIONS, a world premiere featuring a vibrant and sexy cast.A theatrical experiment exploring the power of storytelling, IMMORTAL: THE GILGAMESH VARIATIONS transforms the legendary epic of Gilgamesh the unforgettable hero/god/tyrant/king into a dazzling contemporary stage experience. The all-new version was created by 11 acclaimed playwrights, who met together over the course of two years...each adapting one of the Assyrian stone tablets that preserved the story over 4,000 years ago. Gilgameshs unforgettable quest battling monsters, the elements, gods, doomed romance, and his own fear of death is remixed and reconstructed by the writers; together, they string a surprising, funny, moving and heartbreaking look at what it means to be humanand how we can live forever.