Pig Iron's OBIE-Winning LIZARDBRAIN Back in NYC

“This spellbinding curiosity from the Pig Iron Theatre Company of Philadelphia was the gem of theOff Off Broadway season.” - Charles Isherwood, Top 10 of 2008, The New York Times

directed by Dan Rothenberg

featuring Quinn Bauriedel, Chad Lindsey, James Sugg, and Dito van Reigersberg

executive producer: Charles Ledley  

text: Robert Quillen Camp & Pig Iron
set: Anna Kiraly
lighting: James Clotfelter
sound: Nick Kourtides
costumes: Olivera Gajic
casting: Judy Henderson, C.S.A.

Pig Iron Theatre Company returns with the OBIE-winning version of their acclaimed concoction of Chekhovian misunderstanding, neuroscience, and outsider art.  James Sugg's portrayal of an introverted botanist is at the center of a dizzying and poignant web of memory, vaudeville, and stories that won't stay straight.

“The performance juggles ideas about Chekhov, about playmaking, about what the theater's for, mixing them with bigger matters: love, honesty, friendship, and justice; our relation to nature, to each other, ultimately to ourselves. Nothing's insisted on and little is stated overtly; the show's almost aggressively un-didactic. As with Chekhov, the things we understand from it hang in the atmosphere, articulated but unspoken, engulfing the characters. The result is a kind of exhilarating despair.” -Michael Feingold, Village Voice

Dates:

NYC: (All 2010) January 7, 10 PM; January 8, 5 PM; January 8 10 PM; January 9, 5 PM; January 9, 10 PM; January 10, 2 PM

January 11, 8 PM, January 13, 8 PM, January 14, 8 PM, January 15, 8 PM, January 16, 2 PM, January 16, 8 PM, January 17, 7 PM
TICKETS HERE

ALSO: For the Love of Pig Iron: HAMS ACROSS AMERICA, Pig Iron's annual benefit cabaret and auction, storms the Trocadero on January 29, 2010.  Think Bob Geldof's “Do They Know It's Christmas?”, only with bad-joke virtuoso Quinn Bauriedel in place of Bono, and the glorious, hirsute Miss Martha Graham Cracker subbing for the blonde girl from Bananarama.

General Admission $25/$30 day-of-event; $75 VIP seats include preferred seating + early bidding + HAMS ACROSS AMERICA t-shirt.

ON SALE HERE