Night and Day are part of acclaimed playwright and author Charles Mee’s the(re)making project. Declaring “there is no such thing as an original play,” Mee uses past stories combined with new text in a radical reconstruction that brings together both history and current culture. His works are freely shared on the Internet for companies to use, prompting NPR to call him the “Public Domain Playwright” in 2000.

Night, based on the tragedy Thyestes by Seneca, is a dark tale of twin rivalry, revenge, and darkness. In contrast, Day is a love story taken from Daphnis and Chloeby the Greek poet Longus. Classical drama and contemporary self-indulgence are side by side in these two dance theatre works that scrape away the veneer that denies our savage nature.