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.)

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.

Mission to Mercury 2000

A cabaret-ballet inspired by the rock band Queen.

Shut Eye 2001

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

Poet in New York 1997

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

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.

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.

Twelfth Night, or What You Will 2011

Drunks. Mistaken Identies. Tubas. And Shakespeare.