April 15 - May 10, 2025
At The Bushwick Starr

A co-production with:
HERE Arts Center and Ma-Yi Theater Company

written and directed by Shayok Misha Chowdhury
in collaboration with Bulbul Chakraborty

A boundary-pushing collaboration between mother and son, Rheology is the newest work from Pulitzer Finalist and Obie Winner Shayok Misha Chowdhury

In Rheology, Misha joins forces with his physicist mother, Bulbul Chakraborty. Bulbul is obsessed with the mystery of sand: how it flows, like a liquid, but then jams into a solid. Misha is obsessed with his mother. But they're running out of time. In this boundary-pushing new collaboration, an artist son challenges his scientist mother to a high-stakes experiment.

CREATIVE TEAM:
Set Design: Krit Robinson, Costume Design: Enver Chakartash, Lighting Design: Mextly Couzin and Masha Tsimring, Sound Design: Tei Blow, Video Design: Kameron Neal, Music Director and Cello: George Crotty, Stage Manager: Lisa McGinn, Dramaturg: Sarah Lunnie, Fight Choreographer: David Anzuelo; Associate Director: Kedian Keohan, Associate Direction/Additional Dramaturgy: Lindsay Tanner, Associate Dramaturg: Harris Kiernan, Associate Costume Designer: Miriam Cortes, Assistant Scenic Designer: Gabby Nunez, Associate Sound Designer: Ryan Gamblin, Associate Video Designer: Hannah Tran, Props Manager: Samantha Tutasi, Assistant Stage Manager: Angela Salazar

Line Producer: Kate Bussert

AUDIENCE INFO:
Run Time: 75 minutes, one act
Age Recommendation: 14+
Closed Captioning (in English, Spanish, Mandarin and Bengali) on 4/23 and 5/1
Assisted listening devices available upon request
The Bushwick Starr is a fully ADA accessible venue

There are 4 tickets available for $10 for each performance for RHEOLOGY with code ACCESS. Please use this ticket price point if you need to, and leave them for others if not.

SPECIAL EVENTS:
4/23 - Bushwick Community Night
4/24 - HERE Night
4/25 - AANHPI Community Night
4/30 - Starr Member Night
Closed Captioning (in English, Spanish, Mandarin and Bengali) on 4/23 and 5/1

SUPPORT + DEVELOPMENT:

RHEOLOGY is made with support from: New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA), an individual commission from New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), National Endowment for the Arts, National Science Foundation, the Division of Condensed Matter Physics and the Division of Soft Matter Physics of the American Physical Society, and Society for Arts and Culture of South Asia (SACSA).

RHEOLOGY was commissioned and developed through the HERE Artist Residency Program (HARP) and has received additional development through residencies at Mercury Store, Hubbard Hall in Cambridge, NY and through concerts at Little Island and Lincoln Center’s Summer for the City. RHEOLOGY was developed in part with a residency at the Peabody Essex Museum (pem.org).

RHEOLOGY was awarded an inaugural Sundance Asian American Fellowship.

RHEOLOGY has been supported by the following generous donors:

American Physical Society; Jean-Philippe Bouchard; Supriyo Datta; Bhaskar Ghosh; Yasheng Yang

Sue Behringer, Dapeng Bi, Sharmila and Aloke Chakravarty; Susan Coppersmith; Ishita Dasgupta; Carol Fierke; Lizbeth Hedstrom; Maria Marchetti; Eve Marder; Merk Company Foundation; Tao Wu

Arup Chakraborty; Shaati Chattopadhyay; Zahera Jabeen; Jané Kondev; Aditya Sood; Leander Mengpan Wu

Guatam and Jayanti Bandyopadhyay; Bernadette Brooten; Ruth Charney; Chandan Dasgupta; Zvonimir Dogic; Irving Epstein; Heather Felton; Harvey Gould; Pengyu Hong; Sarah Lamb; Nidhiya Menon; Kasturi Purkayastha; Shyamal Roy; Suresh Subramani; Kushal Talukdar; Aida Wong; Elaine Wong

Photo by Dyuti Majumdar