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Prophet

Prophet Prophet

“Fasten your seatbelts. ‘Prophet,’ Thomas Bradshaw’s lacerating satire, has begun.”-The New York Times

Emerging playwright and provocateur Thomas Bradshaw (Strom Thurmond Is Not a Racist) has had his work produced at venues such as Walkerspace, Richard Foreman’s Ontological Theatre and Bard College. In his new work Prophet, Bradshaw continues to provoke and intrigue. A man wakes up one morning and decides he must kill himself. He is angry with himself for not hitting his wife every time she has an independent thought (as Abraham and Moses would have done). After she dies and God reveals to him that he is the new Prophet, the man takes a new wife, dresses her in slave chains, and begins to preach his newfound gospel of male domination. Simultaneously humorous and disturbing, Bradshaw’s Prophet explores controversial issues in startling and unexpected ways.

Photo: Daniel Rhatigan

Click to read the rave review in The New York Times.

November 30-December 17, 2005
Wednesday-Saturday at 8:30 p.m.
Saturdays and Sundays at 4:30 p.m.
$20($10 Members)

…it’s only a rehearsal

...it's only a rehearsal

zero visibility corp. works with today’s most innovative artists at the forefront of experimental electronic music. Founded in 1996 by choreographer Ina Christel Johannessen, zero visibility corp. explores diverse themes through improvisation; material is created in close collaboration with the dancers and designers – particularly regarding sound. …it’s only a rehearsal is a powerful,physical and dense duet intertwining Ovid’s story of Acteaon and Artemis. This classic coupling is exquisitely abstracted into hot choreography in an hour-long pas de deux, deftly wrapping the story of love and revenge
round the dancers’ bodies until it becomes skin.

Choreographed by Ina Christel Johannessen. Danced by Line
Tormoen and Dimitri Jourde. With music by Murcof, set/light
design by Jens Sethzman and text by Ovid. Technichian: Leila
S. Berg. Photo credit: Rachelle Roberts.

November 30 & December 1, 2011

But, What’s It All About?

But, What's It All About?

Ole Mads Vevle is a controversial and award-winning artist working within the fields of art/performance/video/text and music. At the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, his short film, Love is the Law, was feted with not one but two awards during Critics Week. In But, What’s It All About? Vevle performs his own text accompanied by a video montage. A dialogue between a father and his son ensues. The son’s refrain of “But, what’s it all about?” elicits ever-more elaborate answers from his father. Vevle channels the language of the television, bombarding the audience with a continuous stream of information, mixing the high with the low, the comic and the tragic, the serious and nonsensical.

December 3 & 4, 2005

Part of PS122’s NORWAY Festival

Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players On Ice

If you’ve already encountered the silver-clad trio performing live – singer-songwriter keyboardist Jason Trachtenburg, his slide-projecting/ fashion-designing spouse Tina Pi&#241a Trachtenburg and their 9-year-old daughter Rachel Pi&#241a Trachtenburg, a drummer, vocalist and crowd-pleasing raconteur – then you’ll surely agree The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players are revolutionizing “family entertainment” as we know it. They’ve charmed their way across the U.S.A. and Canada, too, with their whimsical songs, vintage slide shows, sparkling repartee and the occasional homemade cupcake and/or tamale for hungry fans. Join the Trachtenburgs this holiday season at P.S. 122!

December 18-23 at 7:30 pm.
2005
Holiday Party on Monday, December 19 (no performance)

Puppy Skills

Come celebrate with “our favorite queen of eloquent & intelligent quirk” (The New York Times). Featuring: Oven Rack (premiere), a solo for Silvers to the music of Iris DeMent; Puppy-Skills (premiere), a sextet with the incredible dancing of Vicky Shick, Paige Martin, Julie Atlas Muz, Jamie Di Mare, Marion Ramirez and Liz Filbrun; an Improvisation with Pooh Kaye, Cydney Wilkes, a different musician each night and “wearable art” sculptor Anne Katrin Grotepass Flap (1989), a wild splash of extremist on-the-brink movement performed by Carolyn Hall; Rupt (2005), with a cast of 6, the latest in Silvers’ brain-tingling series; “Live Choreography,” making work on the spot with different guest dancers each night and a set design by Yumi Kori. Live original music by Bruce Andrews with Michael Schumacher, lights by David Fritz and costumes by Elizabeth Hope Clancy.

November 17-20, 2005

Thursday-Saturday at 8:00 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday at 5:00 p.m.

$20($10 Members)