Deadclass, Ohio

Hot on the heels of her turn in The Barbarians, Chloe Claudel hits the Tank with an original piece that combines elements of the 1975 classic The Dead Class—a post-traumatic encounter with devastation by the Polish avant-garde artist and theater maker Tadeusz Kantor—with fragments of memories, memoirs, photographs and voice mails, as well as original text by Eliya Smith and live music by Sasha Yakub. Claudel also co-directs the piece with Mitchell Polonsky for the Goat Exchange. Along with Claudel, the cast comprises Anne Gridley, Marcus Amaglo, Luke Bosco, Juliana Sass and two downtown pillars (and Gatz alums), Jim Fletcher and Pete Simpson.