HOW TO BREAK

An electrifyingly innovative world-debut Mainstage production of new work developed by Village Theatre! Featuring a dynamic kaleidoscope of music, poetry, breakdancing, and beatboxing, How To Break follows two hospitalized teenage hip-hop dancers and how they navigate their adolescence in the confines of a hospital room, finding ways to love and learn amidst IV bags and chemotherapy as inspired by real-life events in writer Aaron Jafferis’ time as an artist in residence at a children’s hospital. Part commentary on the American health care system, part moving autobiography, and part profound journey through the joy and pain of growing up, How To Break reveals just how resilient the human spirit is in the face of change and transformation.

Produced by The Village Theatre, Issaquah WA

Music by Jacinth Greywoode, Rebecca Hart and Yako 440
Book and lyrics by Aaron Jafferis

Directed by Logan Vaughn

CAST

Cheryse Dyllan, Olivia Griffin, Andrés López-Alicea, John Kent Rickenbacker Jr., Cristian Rodriguez, Talia Thiesfield

Ash Fetherbay, Edward-Vincent Montemayor Bantasan, Dan Haile, Jasmine Joshua, Charles L. Simmons, Quetzie Taborga

PRODUCTION TEAM

Marcy Suarez (Projection Content Creator), Elizabeth Barrett (Projection Designer), Andrea Allmond (Sound Designer), Pete Rush, (Costume Designer), Robert Aguilar, (Lighting Designer), Jack Magaw (Scenic Designer), Jerome Aparis, (Director of Breaking), Kevin Boseman, (Choreographer), Casey Price (Associate Lighting Designer), Morgan J. Smart, (Dramaturg), Tré Cotton, (Associate Director), Miranda C. Pratt, she/her (Stage Manager), Erin B. Zatloka (Stage Manager)

Photos by Angela Sterling