The Eno River Players Present: The Anatomy of Melancholy

The Eno River Players Present: THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY. What it is, With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, & Severall Cures of It. In Three Partitions with their Severall Sections, Members & Subsections, Philosophically, Medically, Historically Opened & Cut Up.

Few seventeenth-century authors are stranger or more legendary than Robert Burton: the solitary, sedentary Oxford don and librarian who sought to read everything in the world—and write the world into a book. That book, his life’s work, was The Anatomy of Melancholy, an exhaustive account of every cause and cure for melancholy known to man, from existential despair and renewed faith to constipation and diuretics.

The Eno River Players’ adaptation brings the brilliant humor and pathos of Burton’s text to a new audience. We’ve condensed the Anatomy’s 1,200 pages into a seventy-minute, form-bending play for a cast of three, posing questions no less vital in 2024 than they were in 1621: Why are we so melancholy, and what are we supposed to do about it? What’s the point of living a life devoted to reading and writing? For that matter, what’s the point of living at all?

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A note on tickets: All seats are available at each of the three price tiers (Reduced Price, Standard, Donation). Pay what you can, and thank you for supporting non-profit theater!

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Based on the book by Robert Burton. Written by Charlie Mayhew & Leo Egger. Directed by Leo Egger. Starring Elizabeth Bove, Richard Brundage, & Yarin Neuhaus. Lighting by Lauren Lee. Set by Gabby Nuñez & Claire Kramer. Associate Produced by Nico Taylor. At the Doxsee Theater, 232 52nd Street, Brooklyn, NY.

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Target Margin Theater, 232 52nd Street, Brooklyn, United States