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Clark Young in Natsu Onoda Power's “Astro Boy and the God of Comics" at Company One in 2014.

Company One’s 2015–16 Season to Tackle Abortion, Race, Gender

Next season to feature plays by Ruby Rae Spiegel, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Young Jean Lee, and Natsu Onoda Power.

BOSTON: Company One Theatre has announced its 2015–16 season, which will include plays from Ruby Rae Spiegel, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Young Jean Lee, and Natsu Onoda Power.

The season kicks off with the Boston premiere of Spiegel’s Dry Land (Oct. 2—30), set in a high school locker room where two girls are attempting a do-it-yourself abortion. Steven Bogart will direct.

Next will be Jacobs-Jenkins’s An Octoroon (Jan. 28—Feb. 27, 2016), a part-adaptation/part sendup of Boucicault’s The Octoroon. Summer L. Williams will direct. Octoroon is a coproduction with ArtsEmerson.

Lee’s We’re Gonna Die will follow (April 21—May 15, 2016), a song cycle that explores, with humor, mortality. Company One artistic director Shawn LaCount will direct.

Following will be the regional premiere of Power’s The T Party (July 22—Aug. 20, 2016), an immersive exploration of gender identity. As with her previous foray at Company One, Astro Boy and the God of Comics, Power will also direct.

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