Pigs In Space: A Benefit Cabaret Spectacular
Pig Iron Theatre Company Presents
For years, Pig Iron Theatre Company has been taking audiences to places where few have dared go before. Join our ensemble's oddballs, buffoons, and crazy-old-uncles - and a few very special guests - as they trip the light fantastic through a hybrid cabaret/rocksplosion/medicine show, full of feats of derring-do, near-classic pop songs, and unspeakable hilarity.
Emceed by Quinn Bauriedel, with frequent appearances by Miss Martha Graham Cracker, Official Company Chanteuse and drag alter-ego of Pig Iron co-founder Dito van Reigersberg.
With Special Guests The Main Squeeze Accordionists; the unbelievable lioness of Galapagos striptease, Typhoon Sugarpants; and songwriting wunderkind and Civilians composer Michael Friedman.
PIG IRON NYC FRIENDS COMMITTEE
Sanda Balaban, Ari Edelson, Maria Goyanes, Jenn Haltman, Jordan Harrison, Emily Hartford, Kate Hopkins, Morgan Jenness, Charlie Ledley, Trey Lyford, Jason Rothenberg, Natalie Saibel, Anita Schillhorn, Alexis Schimberg, Vivek Tiwary
When: November 6, 2009; doors at 7 PM, show at 8 PM
Where: Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NYC
(Take F Train to York Street or A Train to High Street)
How much: $30 advance tickets; $35 day of event
VIP Seats (preferred seating + tasty treats + personal encounters with Miss Martha) for $100
Tickets available here or at (215) 627-1883
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ALSO: Tickets for CHEKHOV LIZARDBRAIN on sale here now
December 10-13, 2009
“This spellbinding curiosity from the Pig Iron Theatre Company of Philadelphia was the gem of the Off 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
Following hot on the heels of their groundbreaking Live Arts Festival hit WELCOME TO YUBA CITY, Pig Iron Theatre Company returns with a new version of their acclaimed concoction of Chekhovian misunderstanding, neuroscience, and outsider art. James Sugg's OBIE-winning 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:
December 10, 8 PM; December 11, 7 PM; December 11, 10 PM; December 12, 2 PM; December 12, 8 PM; December 13, 3 PM