I Want a Country

“We need to dream, otherwise we’ll just die sleepless.”

I Want a Country, written a decade ago during Greece’s severe debt crisis, is an interdisciplinary theatrical performance that explores what is at stake when a country is not safe anymore. Greek writer Andreas Flourakis imagines a chorus of young people planning to escape into their own dream countries. Will their desires come true?

February 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17 at 8:00pm

February 11 at 2:00pm

1 hour 30 minutes, with no intermission

Ensemble Theater II - E400

All crew, audience, and other individuals in the vicinity of the performance are encouraged to wear masks.

Alec Boyd

Rachel Edelstein

Heather Friedman

Rachel Goodwin

Alice Guo

Romy Kim

Nina Malinow

Atlas Molina

Austin Peyton

Jeanette Srinivasan

DIRECTOR: Tatou Dede

SCENIC DESIGNER: Taizan Partapurwala

COSTUME DESIGNER: Yi-Lun Chien

LIGHTING DESIGNER: Cad Apostol

SOUND DESIGNER: Charles Glaudini, Daniel Newman-Lessler

VIDEO DESIGNER: Ghazal Bazargan

COMPOSER: Daniel Newman-Lessler

FIGHT COORDINATOR: Edward Monaghan

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR: Khaled Bukhari, June Kim

DRAMATURG ADVICE: Elena Novakovits

GRAPHIC DESIGNER: Paulina Gruzdev

ASSISTANT SCENIC DESIGNER: Ember Streshinsky

ASSISTANT COSTUME DESIGNER: Nuoyan Guan

ASSISTANT LIGHTING DESIGNER: Miles Karraa

ASSISTANT VIDEO DESIGNER: Grace Hlavacek

VOCAL: Nelle Anderson

FLUTE: Emma-Rose Bauman

VIOLIN: Simone Hammett-Lynch

BASSOON: Lauren Martin

TUBA: Mason Moy

PIANO: Daniel Newman-Lessler

PERCUSSION: Victor Sintchak

STAGE MANAGER: Cassy Sottile

ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER: Mia Condon, Liz Zaragoza

ASSOCIATE PRODUCTION MANAGER: Katherine Paez Froehlich

PRODUCER: Rui M. Xu

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: House Dow

Host or Publisher California Institute of the Arts School of Theater