a solo show written & performed by SEAN DEVARE
directed by ALEX M. LEE

In First Violin, writer-performer Sean Devare chronicles his search for, and recreation of the fabled ancestor of the violin, invented by the demon(ized) king Ravana, echoing his song through the underworld of Manhattan.

UPDATE - First Violin has just been selected for the SUITE/Space fellowship at Mabou Mines and will return in spring 2020 after a fresh round of development!
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UPCOMING PERFORMANCES:
June 19 - 21, 7PM at Mabou Mines

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A visionary documentary of a brown man's psyche and a razor-sharp conversation with himself, and us, poeticizing the inner and outer madness of navigating today's America."
 
— Stew (Tony-award winner, "Passing Strange")

​​While few can account for their own lifetime, Devare time-surfs a couple millennia in 'First Violin.' Western and Asian cultures collide and collude in his colorful retelling of the Ramayana, which he reinterprets through inventive autobiographical unmaskings and pop-culture interrogations demonstrating, among many other things, why they don't call it classic rock for nothing.”
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— Richard Gehr (author; writer at Spin, Rolling Stone, Village Voice)