"Tantalizing...Baker’s signature hyper-realism makes room for an irrational dimension that lightly evokes the supernatural enigmas of Maurice Maeterlinck and August Strindberg."
- Los Angeles Times
- Los Angeles Times
ABOUT
THE ANTIPODES
BY ANNIE BAKER
DIRECTED BY BRIEN LANG
MARCH 25 - APRIL 18
A group of people sit around a table theorising, categorising and telling stories. Their real purpose is never quite clear, but they continue on, searching for the monstrous.
Part satire, part sacred rite, this fascinating new play from Annie Baker, called "the most original and significant American Dramatist since August Wilson" (The Guardian), The Antipodes asks what value stories have for a world in crisis.
Part satire, part sacred rite, this fascinating new play from Annie Baker, called "the most original and significant American Dramatist since August Wilson" (The Guardian), The Antipodes asks what value stories have for a world in crisis.
Bill Mootos*
as Sandy 
Jim O'Brien*
as Danny M1 |
Kathy Ng
as Sarah 
Jack Clarke
as Danny M2 
Scott Levine
as Brian |
Jennifer Mischley
as Eleanor 
Jordan Smith
as Josh 
Bruce Kaye
as Max |
Jason Quinn
as Adam 
James Lucey
as Dave |
THE ANTIPODES was first seen at Signature Theatre, New York, in 2017, the play had its UK premiere at the National Theatre, London, in 2019.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Annie Baker's full-length plays include The Flick (Playwrights Horizons, OBIE Award for Playwriting, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize), Circle Mirror Transformation (Playwrights Horizons, OBIE Award for Best New American Play, Drama Desk nomination for Best Play), The Aliens (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, OBIE Award for Best New American Play), Body Awareness (Atlantic Theater Company, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations for Best Play/Emerging Playwright), and an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, for which she also designed the costumes (Soho Rep). Ms. Baker's plays have been performed at over 100 theatres across the USA and in England, Australia, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Peru, Venezuela, Mexico, Latvia, Sweden and Russia. She is a Residency Five playwright at Signature Theatre and a member of New Dramatists, MCC’s Playwrights Coalition and EST. Recent honors include a New York Drama Critics Circle Award, a Susan Smith Blackburn Prize nomination, a Lilly Award, a Time Warner Storytelling Fellowship, a MacDowell fellowship and a Master Artist Residency at Atlantic Center for the Arts. A published anthology of her work, The Vermont Plays, is available from TCG books.
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2026/27 SEASON
Learn more about the 2026/27 Season at Providence's home for groundbreaking artists and adventurous audiences! The World Premiere of Same Difference by Don Mays, Regional Premieres of Seagulls by Beth Hyland and Teeth with book/music by Anna K. Jacobs and book/lyrics by Michael R. Jackson, and the professional Rhode Island premieres of Grand Horizons by Tony Award winner Bess Wohl and The Antipodes by Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Baker.
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An award-winning, not-for-profit professional theatre company, the Wilbury Theatre Group engages our community in thought-provoking conversation through new works, reimagined classics and adventurous playmaking. We are idealistic, ambitious, and stubborn in our resolve to create theatre that entertains, enlightens, and inspires.
