Last year the company put on Viktor Ullmann's "Emperor of Atlantis, or Death Quits," composed in the Terezin concentration camp during World War II, in the 380-seat Calderwood Pavilion.
Viktor Ullmann's "Emperor of Atlantis, or Death Quits" is not exactly a new work; it was composed in the Terezin concentration camp in 1943 but reconstructed from his manuscript only in the 1970s.
Shortly following the ensuing tour, Slovak died of a heroin overdose and left the rest of the group in complete shock; Irons, citing an inability to cope with the death, quit.
But the most tantalizing of this season's productions is the one that opened on Tuesday night at the Calderwood Pavilion here, a staging of Viktor Ullmann's "Emperor of Atlantis, or Death Quits".
The square job; the gorgeous wife, April (Katy Mixon), whom he finally settled down with after faking his death and quitting baseball; the two kids; the NPR — by other peoples' rules, he's a king.
After his father's death, he quit ad work.
You are forced, under pain of death, to quit all that silly ideation and pay attention.
It is one of many simplistic diagnoses offered by Rosa's acquaintances, who are shocked when, months after her mother's death, she quits her job as a newspaper writer, is dumped by her boyfriend, and rapidly sinks into debt.
Months after his death, Mr. Beryl quit too, because he wouldn't follow Lt. Wallace's lead in writing us up for petty rules violations.
My ultimate ambition is to get really good, like, be the ubermensch of my own potential, and then instead of riding it out until I'm near death, just quit.
