The Aliens (play)
| The Aliens | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Annie Baker |
| Date premiered | April 22, 2010 |
| Place premiered | Rattlestick Playwrights Theater |
| Original language | English |
The Aliens is a play by Annie Baker. The play is set in Vermont, as are two of Baker's other plays, Body Awareness and Circle Mirror Transformation. The Aliens premiered Off-Broadway in 2010, and won the Obie Award for Best New American Play, with Baker's Circle Mirror Transformation.
The Aliens premiered Off-Broadway at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater on April 22, 2010 and closed on May 23, 2010. Directed by Sam Gold, the cast featured Michael Chernus, Dane DeHaan and Erin Gann. The play had a reading in April 2009 at the play-reading series, Out Loud by Ars Nova.
Among United States regional productions, the play ran in Boston at Company One in October 2010, as part of the "Shirley, VT. Play Festival", which produced three of Baker's plays, all set in the fictional town of Shirley, Vermont.
It was also produced in Chicago at the Red Orchid Theatre in 2013 and the Studio Theatre in Washington, D.C. in 2012.
The play premiered in London at the Bush Theatre in September 2010.
Wabash College included the play as part of their 2014-2015 theater season.
The play takes place in a small town in Vermont. Two thirtyish men, Jasper and KJ, meet to discuss music and poetry in an alley behind a coffee shop. They discuss their band, which was called (among many things) The Aliens. KJ has dropped out of college and Jasper has not finished high school, but is writing a novel. When Evan, a high school student who works at the coffee shop arrives, the men "decide to teach him everything they know."
The writer of an article in the Boston Globe noted: "At least one-third of her play 'The Aliens' should be silent, uncomfortably so, a note in the text says."
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