Playwrights Horizons has set dates for their upcoming world premiere of Nazareth Hassan’s Practice, which will play the Off-Broadway company’s Judy Theater October 30-December 7. Keenan Tyler Oliphant is directing.

Also newly announced for the upcoming run is its cast, which will include Opa Adeyemo as Ro, Karina Curet as Mel, Amandla Jahava (Exception to the Rule) as Savannah, Mark Junek (Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus) as Walton Rhodes, Hayward Leach (Elsbeth) as Keeyon, Maya Margarita (Pose) as Angelique, Ronald Peet (Daddy) as Asa Leon, Susannah Perkins (Romeo + Juliet) as Rinni / Lane Thurmond, Omar Shafiuzzaman (Elyria) as Tristan, and Alex Wyse (Good Night, Oscar) as Danny.

The work follows a performance group that assembles a company of actors to live in an old church in Brooklyn and devise a play about themselves, with press notes describing the show as "a shapeshifting psycho-comedy."

The staging will feature scenic design by Afsoon Pajoufar, costume design by Brenda Abbandandolo and Karen Boyer, lighting design by Masha Tsimring, sound design by Tei Blow, movement by Camden Gonzales and Oliphant, and fight direction and intimacy coordination by Rocío Mendez. Genevieve Ortiz will serve as production stage manager, with Colleen M. Rooney as assistant stage manager.

“Bodies are treated like objects in space in theatre,” says Hassan in a statement. “And in the desire to push forward, outside the norms of theatre—where demands on the body are very different than in performance art, where acts are seldom repeated night after night—I wanted to see if it was even possible to make a play about that line. Something I’ve loved about this process is that, because it’s meta-theatrical, every choice we make we put under a really strong microscope. How do we embody certain strenuous things that happen without actually making it dangerous?”

“I’ve been very lucky to read a lot of Naz’s work, and there’s an almost ancient Grecian epicness to it and the way they use poetry,” adds Oliphant. “But this piece is also asking for a minutiae that’s really close, which has led us to really focus the tone of the performance. So the big thing we’re trying to do is create an epicness of proximity. The fourth wall still exists really strongly, so the closeness verges on voyeurism.”

Tickets are at PlaywrightsHorizons.org.