Located in its unique enclosed courtyard space, PULSE boasts one of the most intimate and unique outdoor theatres in the world. 

With the use of ladders and tiered sets, we use the roofs and trees of the courtyard, so that the audience experiences the full effect of the sky, tree tops, moon and all the other elements that are not present indoors.

Our first outdoor summer production was in 1997, and was THE SEAGULL, by Anton Chekhov.  Actually that production was half out and half inside, as the actors exited from the studio as if that was their home, and then in Chekhov's indoor acts, we went inside, and looked at the outdoor scene through the windows.  This production was critically acclaimed, and was full of surprises for the audience, as we created wind and pouring rain running down all the outside windows--which the audience of course, believed was real!

In 1999 we ventured outdoors again with our unique and critically acclaimed macBETH.  This production was set in New York, and focused on teen gangs and gang violence.  The witches were mothers whose children had been lost in cross-fire, and macBETH was a woman.  Unique also, was how we stage the production--having such limited ground space, we went UP!  Now we had soldiers coming down from the roof, Lady macBETH doing  her incanting speech through the top branches of a tree.  

In all, a very exciting, lively and unique evening of theatre,  

fog machines, stage rain and all!

2000 was again a very exciting season for us--2 productions this time, a traditional MACBETH--set somewhere in the bronze age, with older characters, a production more dedicated to the poetry than the first, and running in repertory with A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM.  In this latter production, PUCK was  gymnast who made every use of the three tiered set and its poles.  Set in the 1920's, this production, as the Off-Off Broadway reviewer said:
"leapt from the page to the stage". 
Great fun was had by all.

Season 2001 will present THE TEMPEST, and TWELFTH NIGHT.

We "turn 42nd Street in Fairyland"--BACKSTAGE