IRONBOUND
by Martyna Majok
directed by Emilie Whelan
photo by Ben Krantz Studio
Following last season’s hit production of Martyna Majok’s Cost of Living, OTP is thrilled to stage Majok’s breakthough 2014 play Ironbound, directed by Emilie Whelan (Cost of Living), featuring OTP Associate Artistic Director Lisa Ramirez.
In a run-down New Jersey town, Darja, a Polish immigrant, is barely getting by on housecleaning and factory jobs.
Over the course of 20 years and three relationships, Darja negotiates for her future with men who can offer her love or security—but never both.
Darkly funny, perceptive and heartbreaking, Majok’s drama is an unflinching portrait of an immigrant woman's struggle for survival: a woman for whom love is both a luxury and a liability—and the American Dream is always just out of reach.
PERFORMANCES
MAY 2–18
THU / FRI / SAT / SUN @ 7:30pm
Previews: Fri 5/2 & Sat 5/3
Opening Night: Sun 5/4
Run Time: 90 minutes (no intermission)
PRIORITY TICKET
(Reserved seating)
$60
GENERAL ADMISSION TICKET
(Seating assigned upon arrival)
$35
PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN TICKET
(Or any amount at the door — contact box office for availability)
$10 / $20
Please note: Online ticket sales close 1 hour before the start of each performance. Tickets may be purchased at the door — subject to availability.
Masked Audience Performance: We seek to be accessible and to meet the needs of our community, and a mask-required show allows members of our community who need or prefer to gather in masked spaces the chance to do so. At these performances, masks will be required inside the theater but are optional in the lobby and common spaces. The actors will be unmasked during the show.
Questions? Contact the Box Office at 510.646.1126 or boxoffice@oaklandtheaterproject.org
IN THE MEDIA
“Finely calibrated performances… Martyna Majok’s Ironbound is all about ambivalence, the impossibility of definitions, the irrelevance of categories”
— San Francisco Chronicle Review
Datebook Pick!
”In Martyna Majok’s breakout 2014 play, privation turns characters to brutes. Each line rips off another Band-Aid. No one can afford dignity. And yet human frailty and need still peek through the hardness. Majok’s characters might spout callousness, but her writing aches with compassion for them — how their core of vulnerability won’t be pulverized.”
— San Francisco Chronicle
Editor’s Pick!
”Heartbreaking and tender, the story does not soften the pain as much as make it ring with authenticity.”
— East Bay Express
“[A] quietly gripping play… Ms. Majok’s perceptive drama, with its bone-dry humor and vivid characters, illustrates how vulnerable people like Darja are hostages to the vagaries of chance, unless they can manage to climb out of poverty.”
— New York Times
“You seldom see plays that are both harsh and wonderful, but that is the balance that Polish-born playwright Martyna Majok strikes…she writes with such energy and charisma that the play’s four characters feel vivid and real…The play never sugarcoats, yet it steers clear of bleakness because Majok’s language is so entertainingly alive.”
— Washington Post
Production Photos
by Ben Krantz Studio
CAST
Lisa Ramirez
Daniel Duque-Estrada
Adam KuveNiemann
Kevin Rebultan
PRODUCTION TEAM
Technical Director
Ashley Munday
Production Manager
Mylo Cardona
Master Electrician
Ashley Munday
Head Carpenter
Sam Fehr
House Manager
Michael Perez
Concessionaire
Marjorie Cleveland
Photographer
Ben Krantz Studio
Videographer
Adam Elder Montanaro
Creative Team
Director
Emilie Whelan
Set Designer
Sam Fehr
Costume Designer
Bethany Deal
Lighting Designer
Ashley Munday
Sound Designer
Ray Archie
Stage Manager
Kamaile Alnas-Benson
Production Assistant
Ayla Azim
Sound Assistant
Theodore Neeno
Intimacy Coordinator
Heather Ondersma
Dialect Consultant
Amy Stoller
Fight Choreographer
Dave Maier
LOCATION
All performances take place in Downtown Oakland:
Oakland Theater Project at
FLAX art & design
1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Oakland 94612
Parking Lot Entrance: 15th St
Public Transit: The venue is a 7-10 minute walk from Oakland’s 12th Street BART Station.