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Every Day Above Ground

★★★★★ “Watching them is pure joy”
– The Irish Times

“An ensemble that inspires new respect for the craft”
– Variety

This bold re-imagining of Booker Prize-winner Michael Ondaatje’s Collected Works of Billy the Kid by Brooklyn and Montreal-based ensemble SaBooge Theatre is a dark and groundbreaking meditation on life, after death. Every Day brings an outlaw to the afterlife, following William Bonney into the landscape of his mortality, where myth and life are re-visioned; a place where the assassin’s bullet is only the beginning.

SaBooge’s ‘superb ensemble cast’ (Irish Times) are joined by sound designer and Drama Desk nominee Jeff Lorenz in the official premiere of this ‘bold, unfettered adaptation’ (Irish Theatre Magazine).

Photo by: Michael Iannantuono

Approximate Running Time: 1 hour 10 minutes

February 8 – 18, 2007
Opens Thursday, February 8
Wednesday – Saturday at 8 p.m.
Saturdays and Sundays at 5 p.m.
$20($10 Members)

Finn

Take a peek at a short clip from this new music-theatre work based on ancient Celtic mythology, the legend of Finn McCool, and a young boy’s quest to become a warrior. Live performers, digital characters and animated settings create an expansive fantasy world. Mabou Mines Co-artistic Director Sharon Fogarty teams with Irish writer Jocelyn Clarke, Czech digital/motion capture artists Misha Zabranska and Misha Votruba, Scottish composer Phil Cunningham and set designer Kris Stone.
Running time: 15 minutes (In the Mabou Mines studio)

COIL 2007 Special Performance:
Friday January 19th at 4:00 p.m.
Free, first come first serve

Glory and Feed

Bessie Award-winner Jeremy Wade delivers an evening of pulverizing performance. Feed, a new solo with musician Adam Linson, concerns separation anxiety and the paradox of holes that one cannot possibly fill. In Glory, a naked man and a naked woman seek refuge in each other, like animals, like dolls, ultimately like desperate human bodies.

Running time 70 minutes

Wednesday January 17, 2007 at 6:00 p.m.
Thursday January 18, 2007 at 8:30 p.m.
Friday January 19, 2007 at 6:00 p.m.
Saturday January 20, 2007 at 8:30 p.m.
Monday January 22, 2007 at 8:30 p.m.
Tuesday January 23, 2007 at 6:00 p.m.
Feed and Glory is part of
the COIL Festival 2007
$15($10 Members)

Purity

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Following last season’s critical success, Prophet, playwright provocateur Thomas Bradshaw takes on race, academia, pedophilia, drug and alcohol abuse, promiscuity and infidelity in his signature stunning style. Directed by NTUSA‘s Yehuda Duenyas (Pastoralia), this explosive creation is not for the faint of heart.

Approximate running time: 70 minutes

WARNING: Purity contains scenes of a graphic sexual and violent nature that may not be suitable for all audiences.

Photo by: Shital Patel

“Tom Bradshaw’s most important contribution to society is snatching narrative and its elements back from the clutches of the Ordinary”
– Richard Maxwell

“…an ugly fantasy… Purity lures you with a comic touch and makes your laughs catch in your throat”
– The New York Times

“Vicious and harrowing… a profoundly disturbing play… the gratuitous detail is almost unbearable.”
– New York Sun

“…Not for the faint of heart. A whip-smart exercise in sublime discomfort…a brutal fantasia of sex, drugs, and racial politics.”
– Backstage

“Authentically hard-hitting and provoking.”
– nytheatre.com

“…achieves the trifecta of what it had been after all along – it frightens, it provokes and it causes contemplation. For those who have pushed through the more repellent moments of Purity, there is something satisfying here.”
– Americantheaterweb.com

“The line between Purity and pornography is a very fine one indeed… still had to admire Bradshaw’s furious bravado. If you have the stomach for this sort of thing, go with my blessings. But don’t say I didn’t warn you.”
– Gay City News

COME SEE THE SHOW THE NEWARK STAR LEDGER CALLS:

“cliched…deliberately offensive…potty-mouth…trash. A sloppily-written…crude cartoon of loathsome behavior…devoid of insight or inspiration. Nakedly depicted in excruciating detail.”

January 6 – 23, 2007

Opens Saturday January 6

Wednesday – Saturday at 8:30 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday at 4:30 p.m.

Jan 18 – 23: Additional performances during the COIL Festival 2007

$15($10 Members)

You Belong to Me: Death of Nations Part V

Death of Nations: Part V

“Fox is one of the most adventurous impresarious of the New York avant-garde. Hallucinatory. Chilling. Stunning.”
-Jason Zinoman, The New York Times

“At once abstract and visceral, You Belong To Me: Death of Nations Part V is a fascinating and surreally beautiful exploration of war and its social context, with a particular focus on violence, eroticism, and fantasy… Fox and company present a collage of striking images, fractured narrative, and sung sequences that make for a bold, original, and utterly compelling theatrical experience.”
– Dan Bacalzo, TheaterMania (full review)

The International WOW unveils a new, global collaboration between Josh Fox and Frank Raddatz, former dramaturg to Heiner Müller. Traversing the Civil War’s finale, the campaign of Native American genocide, Germany’s fall after WW II, and climaxing at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center (the largest U.S. military hospital outside the country and primary care provider for all U.S. soldiers seriously injured in Iraq), this erotic and phantasmagoric epic is an intensely physical and musical rollercoaster ride of love, betrayal and murder throughout the ages.

Approximate Running Time: 2 hours 20 minutes including intermission

January 5 – 23, 2007
Opens Friday January 5
Wednesday – Saturday at 8 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday at 3 p.m.
Jan 18 – 23: Additional performances during the COIL Festival 2007