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Coordinates: 40°43′36″N 73°59′24″W / 40.726564°N 73.990088°W / 40.726564; -73.990088
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The Apothetae
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AddressNew York City
United States
Coordinates40°43′36″N 73°59′24″W / 40.726564°N 73.990088°W / 40.726564; -73.990088
OwnerGregg Mozgala
TypeOff-Broadway
Capacitymain stage: 198
black box: 75
Opened1979
Website
www.theapothetae.org

The Apothetae is a theater company in New York founded by Gregg Mozgala. The name of the theater company comes from the play The Rules of Charity, where John Belluso referenced the apothetae, a chasm in Ancient Greece where infants, who were found by elders to be too small or disabled, were left to die from exposure.[1] The term means "the place of exposure," and the theater company aims to expose the disabled experience though history.[2]

  1. ^ Making Patriots by Walter Berns, 2001, page 12, "and whose infants, if they chanced to be puny or ill-formed, were exposed in a chasm (the Apothetae) and left to die;"
  2. ^ Mozgala, Gregg. "About". The Apothetae. Retrieved 8 February 2017.