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2010 Season Launch

Performance Space 122 invites you to our 30th Anniversary Season Launch Party
Putting the P and the Y in ART since 1980.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15
GAWKER MEDIA ROOFTOP
6:30 – 10:30 PM

Hospitality sponsor: VBar St. Mark’s, DJ John Pugh (Free Blood), Live Performance by Dynasty Handbag, Sunset, Cocktails…and more!

Raise a glass and raise the roof at PS122’s 30th Anniversary Season kickoff.

VBar St. Mark’s is located at 132 1st Avenue at St. Mark’s Street

Location: 210 Elizabeth Street,
between Prince & Spring
Tickets: $30 advance / $35 door
Limited availability.

Michael Lederer is an éminence grise of his generation. After growing up in the ivory towers of New Haven and Palo Alto, the son of Stanford historian Ivo Lederer has lived a variety of lives. From squatting in a teepee in his twenties to rejuvenating the arts scene on the Adriatic coast, Lederer has a refreshingly unique perspective on the highs and lows of contemporary living, examined in his first dramatic work Mundo Overloadus. At a time when we see the world through screens of our monitors and mobiles and mp3 players, Lederer lifts our social shields and tackles the trials of our 24-hour world in the play’s premiere.

Running time: 90 minutes

Sept 7-12, 2010
Tue-Sat 8pm, Sat + Sun 2pm

Hetero & The Sea Museum

2 site-specific reading installations
Presented in association with Crossing the Line

Hetero
written by Lachaud and directed by Arthur Nauzyciel

An all-male cast struggles with concepts of gender in modern society. Humorous and cynical, Hetero is a feminist argument that is, ironically, defined by men.

The Sea Museum
written by Darrieussecq, directed by Daniel Pettrow of the Wooster Group

A family flees their war-torn town, finding refuge in a delapidated marine life museum with a couple and a bizarre creature named Bella.

About Crossing the Line (September 10 – 27, 2010): Crossing the Line is FIAF’s fall festival, conceived as a platform to present vibrant new works by a diverse range of transdisciplinary artists working in France and New York City. It is initiated and produced by FIAF in partnership with leading New York cultural institutions. www.fiaf.org.

Supported in part by Etant donnés, The French-American Fund for the Performing Arts, a Program of FACE

Hetero
Saturday, September 11 –
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Saturday – Tuesday at 7:30PM
Offsite – TBA

SOLD OUT
To add your name to the waiting list:
Email hetero@ps122.org with your choice of date, full name, phone number and number of tickets you would like – maximum of 2 tickets per person.

The Sea Museum
Saturday, September 18 &
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Saturday & Sunday at 3PM
Offsite – The Atlantic Avenue Tunnel*
Atlantic Avenue at Court Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Nearest Transit:
Court St-Borough Hall (2, 3, 4, 5, M, R, W)
Bergen St (F, G)
Jay St (A, C, F)

SOLD OUT
To add your name to the waiting list:
Email seamuseum@ps122.org with your choice of date, full name, phone number and number of tickets you would like – maximum of 2 tickets per person.

*Please wear sneakers or boots (no high heeled shoes). Please bring a flashlight.
The public will climb down a manhole and walk on uneven ground. Please make sure you are capable of such activity.

Rumble Ghost

“Best dance of 2009” – David Velasco, Artforum (on Death Is Certain)

4 STARS – The Financial Times

Horror movies will never be as terrifying and shocking as the human psyche. They act as metaphors – scary stories that offer a release or escape from the more devastating twists and turns of an unquiet mind. Without ghosts to explain haunted houses, we are left with the pain sites of crumbling careers, failing marriages, abused children. In Rumble Ghost, as the flimsy membrane between an American horror movie classic and the fragility of the human condition deteriorates, the darkest place in the world is shown to be right up there: in your mind.

Performed in Jack Ferver’s “hyper-reality” style, seven performers reinterpret the 1982 classic horror film Poltergeist, exploring pop-psychological landscapes with movement, original music, and a highly calibrated script. The Poltergeist theme corrodes and gives way to a group therapy session, created from Ferver’s personal experience with “Inner Child Work”, in a therapy technique aptly called: Psychodrama. As the performers are overtaken by their own child selves, a disturbing spectacle confronts the audience and a fearless exploration of the company’s own personas ensues.

Written and Choreographed by Jack Ferver
Performed by Benjamin Asriel, Reid Bartelme, Christian Coulson, Carlye Eckert, Jack Ferver, Michelle Mola, Breanna O’Mara
Dramaturgy by Josh Lubin-Levy, Original score by Calder Singer, Costumes by Reid Bartelme

Rumble Ghost is made possible with a generous space grant from Abrons Arts Center, Center for Performance Research and supported in part by TestPerformanceTest and The Jerome Foundation.

PRESENTED AS PART OF COIL 2011
DANCE | UPSTAIRS at PS122

Fri, Jan 7 10PM / Sat, Jan 8 7:30PM / Sun, Jan 9 7:30PM

World Premiere Dec 12 2010

Help PS122 Go Green by viewing your Rumble Ghost program online!

The Octoroon

octoroon

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins tackles Dion Boucicault’s infamous melodrama about Americans. (And slavery.) A bombastic, super-theatrical, full-scale investigation of that classic intersection of theatre and identity politics, this play with “real” actors, “real” sets, “real” costumes – and what might turn out to be a “real” slave auction – seeks to get to the bottom of why New York audiences can’t seem to get enough of plays about and racism and America.

Written and Directed by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, in collaboration with Johnson Henshaw and Allison Lyman; Producer: Johnson Henshaw; Dramaturg: Allison Lyman; Costume Design: Abigail Hahn; Sound Design: Jesse Rudoy; Make Up Design: John Carter; Light Design: Kevin Hardy; Assistant Director: Lacy Warner

Featuring: Travis York*, Chris Manley, Gabe Levey*, Jake Hart*, Margaret Flanagan*, Amber Gray*, Mary Wiseman, LaToya Lewis, Kim Gainer*, Sasheer Zamata

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a former playwriting fellow at the New York Theatre Workshop, an alum of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and the Public Theater’s Emerging Writing Group, and a member of the ArsNova Playgroup. He is the recipient of the 2009 Princess Grace Award for Playwriting and the 2009 Dorothy Strelsin Playwriting Fellowship. His full-length plays include Appropriate, The Change, and Neighbors, which was presented in Feb 2010 as apart of the Public Theater’s PublicLab.

More about Boucicault’s The Octoroon: After immigrating to the United States, Boucicault’s The Octoroon premiered at one of New York City’s premier theaters in 1859, while the country was on the brink of the Civil War. The Octoroon became immensely popular and created one of the earliest occurrences in American popular theatre where the use of a popular entertainment such as the melodrama, created dialogue and controversy about contemporary societal issues; abolition, African Americans, and slavery in America.

Support for THE OCTOROON: AN ADAPTATION OF THE OCTOROON BASED ON THE OCTOROON has been provided by a Commission Grant from the Jerome Foundation and the Axe-Houghton Foundation.
*Appears courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association. “The Octoroon: An Adaptation of The Octoroon Based on the Octoroon” is an AEA Approved Showcase.

World Premiere
Theater

Updated Schedule:
Saturday, June 26 – Saturday, July 3, 2010
Wed – Sat at 8, Sun at 6
Thursday Night Social: July 1st
$18, $15 (students/seniors)

2 site-specific reading installations Presented in association with Crossing the Line

2 site-specific reading installations
Presented in association with Crossing the Line