Touring

Pig Iron is currently touring the following works from its repertory. Please contact John Frisbee if you would like more information (videos, press packs, technical specifications, etc.)

Isabella 2007

A radical re-cutting of Shakespeare’s “problem play” Measure for Measure, set in a modern-day morgue and re-imagined as a startling work of human puppetry.

Chekhov Lizardbrain 2007

A tragicomic rumination on memory, neurobiology, and the impossibility of telling your own story straight.

Pay Up 2006

A site-specific, choose-your-own adventure performance installation about buying and selling everything under the sun.

Love Unpunished 2006

A dance-theatre contemplation of death and grief, set on the evacuation staircase of the World Trade Center.

Hell Meets Henry Halfway 2004

A heady cocktail of florid insults and absurd cruelties dressed in tennis whites.

James Joyce is Dead and So is Paris: The Lucia Joyce Cabaret 2003

A rock-n-roll cabaret set in a mental hospital, emceed by James Joyce’s institutionalized daughter.

Shut Eye 2001

A musical investigation of dreams and sleep conceived by Joe Chaikin.

Mission to Mercury 2000

A cabaret-ballet inspired by the rock band Queen.

Poet in New York 1997

A biographical fantasia about gay Spanish playwright Federico Garcia Lorca - Part I of the Lorca Cycle.

Sweet By-and-By 2008

A solo performance piece about the Swedish-American labor organizer and songwriter Joe Hill, developed in collaboration with Sweden’s Teater Slava.