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Blind Spot

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“Blind Spot casts a potent spell.”
– Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice

Pavel Zustiak, the 2007 recipient of The Princess Grace Award in Choreography, reprises the acclaimed Blind Spot at Performance Space 122 and creates a world where that which is no longer seen, heard, nor felt reoccurs as an unwelcome guest. Numb senses retrieve their former abilities and experience the world as if for the first – or last – time.

Direction and Choreography: Pavel Zustiak
Performed by: Gina Bashour, Yoel Cassell, Ashleigh Leite, Anthony Whitehurst
Lighting Design: Joe Levasseur; Costume Design: Nick Vaughan; Set and Sound Design: Pavel Zustiak

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Original Run: June 11 – 15, 2008
Also playing in the COIL 2009 Festival

Oedipus Loves You

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“This is a sensational new take on an ancient story…featuring a brilliantly poised and witty Irish A-list cast.”
– The Scotsman

“Wickedly funny and wonderfully theatrical.”

– The Irish Times

“This is all both funny and intelligent, acknowledging the Oedipus story as the ur-text of modern Western civilization”

– The Guardian

Pan Pan Theatre’s Oedipus Loves You is a wickedly funny and wonderfully theatrical take on the Oedipus plays of Sophocles and Seneca and their legacy, Freudian psychology. These performances – the New York debut of this Dublin-based company – are part of a highly acclaimed world tour following the premiere in 2006.

Pan Pan’s punk rock sensibility strikes a fierce chord in this savvy update of Sophocles’ classic drama of the ultimate dysfunctional family. They bring decidedly modern twists and ample humour to their explorations yet stay more true to the thrust and themes of the original then you might first think. Oedipus is still counselled by the wise Tiresias, but the sightless sage is now a Freudian analyst and ex-Glam Rocker. Sexual desire runs unchecked and tensions still seethe, but now the backdrop is the barbecue grill of Oedipus’s suburban hideaway. Then the psychodynamics are literally amplified as the characters take up rock instruments to channel their rage in live music sessions that are integral to their group family therapy.

From the breakfast table to the back garden barbecue, the seething dramatic tension is ratcheted up by Gavin Quinn’s remote-control direction and thrash metal performed live by the five actors, Ned Dennehy, Bush Moukarzel, Gina Moxley, Aoife Duffin and Dylan Tighe.

May 21 – June 1, 2008

Wednesdays – Sundays at 8

Saturdays at 8 and 11

Tickets from $20

$15 (students/seniors)

$10 (PS122 members)

The Spring Gala 2008

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Date:
Thursday, May 15, 2008

Location:
The Angel Orensanz Center
172 Norfolk Street
(btw. E. Houston and Stanton St. in Manhattan)

Honorees:

Performer Tom Murrin/Alien Comic
Producer Lori E. Seid
Members of P.S. 122

We celebrate and salute these stellar individuals who work at every level critical to live performance, who epitomize the vital roles played onstage: performer Tom Murrin; backstage: producer Lori E. Seid; and offstage: our members…

Our honorees this year are integral to the story of Performance Space 122, each contributing over the past quarter-century to build Performance Space 122 into a home to the most inventive and creative performance work in the country. Tom Murrin, aka Alien Comic, has worked in the space since the mid-80s, both performing his own shows and curating variety nights that introduced hundreds of new artists over the past two decades. Lori E. Seid began stage managing shows when that meant stringing clip lamps with extension cords, and went on to win Obie, Bessie, and Theatre Craft awards for her technical achievements behind the scenes. Off stage we are grateful to our members whose generosity supports a where theater can be reinvented, ideas can take flight, and new voices can be heard.

Live Performances:

Blue Man Group
Justin Bond
Steve Buscemi
David Cale
Mimi Goese
Lisa Kron
David Leslie
Rosie O’Donnell
Johanna Went
Plus special video performances by
Antony and the Johnsons, directed by Charles Atlas
Cyndi Lauper
Hosted by Jonathan Ames
Awards presentation by Johanna Went

Get a sneak peek at the items for sale at the 2008 Gala Auction

Gala Co-Chairs:
Stephen Daldry, Claire Danes, Teri Garr, and Jane Friedman invite you to salute our honorees for their tireless and inspiring work in the world of performance.

Evening Overview:

5:30 Cocktails & Silent Auction / 7:00 Dinner
8:00 Live Art Auction / 8:30 Performances and Tributes
10:00 Dessert / 11:30 After-Party (at Vault @ element, 225 E. Houston) )

Gala Sponsors:
Paper Magazine, Element, Kronenbourg, Newcastle, Mouton Cadet & The Centerra Wine Company.

Artist Auction Committee:
Jo Andres, , Jamie Forshaw, David Leslie, Salley May, Carlo McCormick, Nicky Paraiso, Martha Wilson and Vince Bruns

Gold Leadership Committee:
Jane Friedman
Scott Rudin and John Barlow,
Gaby Darbyshire,
David Neubert,
Michelle Kim,
David Neubert,

Silver Leadership Committee
Renate and Hugh Aller,
Jo Andres and Steve Buscemi,
George and Peggy DiCaprio,
Blue Man Group

Bronze Leadership Committee
David Binder,
Glenda Hersh,
Tamara Jenkins,
Media Bistro,
Lauren Versel,
Steve Holley and Paul Glotzer,
MediabistroCircus.com

Attire:
Festive

Attendance:
300

Sponsorship:

PLATINUM $25,000: Table of 10, full-page ad in gala program, listing on invitation*
GOLD $10,000: Table of 10, full-page ad in gala program, listing on invitation*
SILVER $5000: Table of 8, half-page ad in gala program, listing on invitation*
BRONZE $1000: 4 single tickets; plus listing in gala program and on invitation*

Tickets:

INDIVIDUAL SPONSOR $500: Single ticket, listing in gala program and on invitation*
INDIVIDUAL PATRON $250: Single ticket

Trash Warfare

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The Shalimar
Trash Warfare

Winner! The Stage Award for Best Ensemble at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival

“The most exciting young American company I have seen up here so far this century.”

– The Financial Times

“Beauty and grotesqueness in one, this is a must see.”
-The List

The Shalimar’s smash hit Trash Warfare returns to New York for eight performances at PS122. Using found text, live music, frenetic dance, raw meat and eight wild performers writer/director Shoshona Currier delves deep into America’s celebrity obsession. A savage send-up of a country hell bent on escapism even when all around it things are falling apart. Flash photography is encouraged.

With text compiled from speeches of General George Patton, General Douglas MacArthur,
Winston Churchill, interviews with Lizzie Grubman, Mary Kay Letourneau, Angelina Jolie, Britney Spears, and Gwyneth Paltrow, and works by Seneca, Georges Bataille, and Bret Easton Ellis, The Shalimar retells the timeless Phaedra myth. What happens at home when the men are away at war?

More info can be found at the Shalimar Productions Site

Original PS122 Run: May 14-18, 2008
Also playing in the COIL 2009 Festival

Gottlieb

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“A commanding vocalist”
– The New York Times

“Powerfully straddles jazz, cantorial and the avant-garde”
– All About Jazz

“Israeli jazz seductress”
– Rolling Stone

“Avant-garde yet surprisingly accessible”
– Global Rhythm

A ten piece song cycle composed by jazz vocalist Ayelet Rose Gottlieb spans erotic love poetry from the bible. With director Franny Silverman and video artist Renate Aller, Gottlieb creates a multi-sensory experience that starts at the moment one steps into the theatre. The show combines movement, video projections and Gottlieb’s compositions. All the elements unfold the abstract narrative of the struggles of a woman in love.

About the Artist:

Ayelet Rose Gottlieb’s (Composer/Vocalist) sound reveals a unique improvisational approach infused with elaborate composition, spiced up with Middle Eastern scales and adventurous texts. She currently resides in New York City and was born in 1979 in Jerusalem, Israel. After graduating from New England Conservatory in ’02, Gottlieb released her first CD Internal-External which was chosen as “Best Debut of 2004” by All About Jazz. In ’06 she released Mayim Rabim on John Zorn’s Tzadik Records to international critical acclaim.

Musicians: Ayelet Rose Gottlieb, Michael Gottlieb, Deanna Neil, Tammy Scheffer- Vocals
Michael Winograd- Clarinet, Anat Fort- Piano, Greg Heffernan-Cello, Ronen Itzik- Drums

Best of Boroughs Festival – Brooklyn

Presented in association with BRIC Arts Media Bklyn.
Mayim Rabim was developed, in part, through a residency at BRIClab

Website photo by Renate Aller.
Postcard photo by Rachel Gottlieb

May 8-10, 2008
Thursday – Saturday at 8pm
More about the BOB Festival
Tickets from $20
$15 (students/seniors)
$10 (PS122 members)

The Shalimar Trash Warfare

The Shalimar
Trash Warfare