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Tower of Babel

TOWER OF BABEL

“And while the stranger’s eyes and lips pour out a stream of incomprehensible words, you start feeling like a beloved child. Not a child of one mother or father, but of all these storytellers. A human child in a global bed.” – Marijn van der Jagt, Vrij Nederland

“Tower of Babel realizes a paradox: people who speak different languages at the same time do not produce a cacophony, but create a harmonious symphony… The Tower of Babel becomes no longer a symbol of opposites, but a foundation for solidarity. This is a unique experience in a time when our differences are increasingly being misused as political weapons.” – Nan van Houte, Artistic Director, The Nes Theatres, Amsterdam.

This one-of-a kind, interactive, full immersion, theatre experience transcends the boundaries of language. Dutch artists Lidy Six and Robert Steijn bypass distinctions of “us and them” and create a truly living and intimate performance ritual. Each audience member is individually greeted, embraced by an atmosphere delicately poised between dreaming and waking. Storytellers from around the world share secrets and tales as different languages converge and invent a new vocabulary for understanding. This exquisitely personal experience metamorphoses into a party for everyone’s ears. Featuring live DJ Cassie 6, live VJ Roberta Marques – and lots of tea.

Running time: Approximately 50 minutes; space is limited to 25 audience members per performance – advance reservations strongly recommended.

Tower of Babel show is a featured presentation in both the European Dream Festival and the Impact Festival.

Made possible in part by the Consulate General of The Netherlands in New York.

U.S. Premiere
September 20 – 23, 2006

One Ring Zero

One Ring Zero presents songs from their hit album As Smart As They Are, featuring lyrics written by 17 of North America’s bestselling and prize-winning authors including Jonathan Lethem, Margaret Atwood, Paul Auster, and Dave Eggers. This unforgettable night’s entertainment includes readings by authors Amy Sohn, Ned Vizzini, Mike Daisey and Clay McLeod Chapman and a special preview screening of As Smart As They Are: The Author Project, a documentary of these unusual and ongoing collaborations, directed by Joe Pacheco.

Monday August 7, 2006 at 8 p.m.

Special screening party and concert by NYC’s favorite literary rock-stars.

$20, $10 P.S. 122 Members
Tickets: (212) 279-4200 or online:
spiegelworld.com or at Spiegeltent Box Office, open 12-8 Daily

Tale of 2Cities

TALE OF 2CITIES

Bi-Coastal World Premiere,
Presented in association with UCLA Live
and Fomenting ARTS Unlimited, Inc.

“Once again, Ms. Woodbury has built a sweet and sweeping play with breathtaking range”
-The New York Times

“Breathtakingly enthralling… bears comparison to the titanic undertakings of Anna Deavere Smith and Tony Kushner.”
-The L.A. Times

“A triumph of unfettered creativity” – Variety

“With her keen observations, she works as a sort of social historian molding gut-wrenching truths and hilarious caricatures into a portrait of the family of man- past and present.”
-Chicago Sun Times

Heather Woodbury, winner of the inaugural Spalding Gray Award, crafts an ambitious and touching journey in her first ensemble play, Tale of 2Cities, which won the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award while in development. Inspired by the Brooklyn Dodgers’ move to L.A. in 1957, this two-part epic delves into the lasting effects of that upheaval – and subsequent acts of urban erasure – on three generations of characters from both coasts. A modern-day Latino DJ spins together this collision of life stories, spanning decades and neighborhoods, connecting a multitude of American lives to our own.

Featuring Winsome Brown, Michael Ray Escamilla, Tracey A. Leigh, Leo Marks, Diane Rodriguez, Ed Vassallo and Heather Woodbury. Directed by Dudley Saunders. Photo Courtesy of Los Angeles Public Library.

Running time for each part is 140 minutes plus intermission. Parts I and II may be purchased as a package (highly recommended), or may be purchased separately. Flexible Play Package (Parts I and II, pick your own combination of dates): $30, $15 (PS122 Members). On weekends, Parts I and II are separated by an extended dinner break

Tune into select readings and exclusive preview images from Tale of
2Cities now at heatherwoodbury.com

Tale of 2Cities is also a featured presentation in the Impact Festival

The Spalding Gray Award

The Spalding Gray Award is a new commissioning award created in his honor by Performance Space 122 and UCLA Live Arts Program. The Award supports gifted artists who fully realize Spalding’s legacy, who are fearless innovators of theatrical form, who reach into daily experience and create resonant, transcendent work that makes us all bigger, wider, wiser and, somehow more than we were when we entered the theater. The recipient receives a full production of his or her work during the upcoming seasons at PS122 and UCLA Live.

PRESS CORNER

Read Jason Zinoman’s review of Tale of 2Cities in The New York Times.

Read Charles McNulty’s review in
The LA Times.

END PRESS CORNER

October 12 – 29
Opens Thursday, October 12
Tale of 2Cities is one play
presented in two parts:
Part I “Grifters, Drifters and Dodgers”
Part II “Mega Mixicana Waltz”

Tuesdays and Thursdays: Part 1 at 8 p.m.
Wednesdays and Fridays: Part 2 at 8 p.m.
Saturdays and Sundays: Part 1 at 2 p.m., Part 2 at 7 p.m.
$20, $15 (students/seniors),
$10 (members)

AGA for the Whole Family Fall 06

AVANT-GARDE-ARAMA

AGA for the Whole Family is downtown performance for children of all ages that doesn’t talk down to them – because it’s by them. An instant classic launched in Fall 2005, AGAWF ushered in a new generation of alternative performance. The whole family will revel in an afternoon of eclectic multi-disciplinary performances by, for, or about kids!

Hosted by Mark Mitton

Featuring:
Berkeley Carroll Dancers
New Voices and Mirage
New Jersey Youth Slam Team (pictured above)
Save the Kittens

Sunday October 8, 2006
4:00 and 7:00 p.m.
$15, $10 Members

Orange Lemon Egg Canary

ORANGE LEMON EGG CANARY

Obie Award-winning playwright Rinne Groff and director Michael Sexton – the respective writer and director of Jimmy Carter Was a Democrat – return to PS122 armed with a hatful of cheap tricks, hurt feelings, and beguiling questions about sex, theatre, ghosts and the Two of Clubs.

Actor/magician Steve Cuiffo (Major Bang) conjures Great, a rogue magician with a dangerous past and a promising future who seduces with sleight of hand. His juicy new assistant Trilby is hungry for the truth behind the illusion. In this mysterious love story brimming with top hats, disappearing coins, floating objects, and the infamous “chick-on-a stick,” every player has a few tricks up his sleeve. Is it all smoke and mirrors? Only the lovely assistant knows for sure . . .

Featuring Steve Cuiffo, Aubrey Dollar*, Emily Swallow*, and Laura Kai Chen*. Casting by Vince Liebhart, sets by Andromache Chalfant, lights by Ben Stanton, costumes by Oana Botez-Ban, and sound by Eric Shim. Stage Manager: Christine Lemme*

Photo by Steve Bridgland

Equity Approved Showcase.
*Denotes member AEA

Running Time: 90 Minutes

July 12-30, 2006
Opens Wednesday, July 12
Wed-Fri 8:00 p.m.
Sat 5:00, 9:00 p.m.
July 27 performance SOLD OUT
Additional Performances:
Sunday, July 30 5:00, 9:00 p.m.
$18($10 Members)