20 years ago this November 9, the Berlin Wall was opened, admitting a flood of East Germans into the previously verboten West. To mark the occasion Trav S.D. and his company Mountebanks present Kitsch, or Two for the Price of One, a Brecht-flavored retelling of The Comedy of Errors that brings Western-style excess to Shakespeare’s comedy by doubling the number of pairs of twins in the plot to four. Separated at birth with the Allied Invasion of Berlin in 1945, half are raised in the Communist sector only to be unwittingly reunited with their brothers 44 years later when the Wall comes down. The result is mass confusion!
Kitsch was written by Trav S.D. on MacDowell, and Edward F. Albee Fellowships, on a grant from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. The play also contains nine original songs by Trav S.D.
Kitsch is directed by Ian W. Hill of Gemini Collisionworks (ably assisted by Berrit Johnson) and features Trav S.D., Kate Valentine (a.k.a “Miss Astrid” from the long-running VaVa Voom Room), Audrey Crabtree (The Bouffon Glass Menajoree), as well as Gyda Arber, Aaron Baker, Tom Bibla, Lily Burd, Betsy Head, William Kahn, John Kelly, Gavin Starr Kendall, Pete Macnamara, Josh Mertz, Brian Mott, Roger Nasser, Avery Pearson, Michele Schlossberg, Esther Silberstein, Jillian Tully (Nov. 14 only) and Michael Whitney. Set design is by David Brune; costumes by Karen Flood.
Note: the November 22 performance will be followed by a special program moderated by Trav S.D., presented at no extra charge: a debate entitled “Is the East Better Off?” Arguing the pro-capitalism side will be Joseph Dobrian, The Libertarian Party’s 2009 candidate for Mayor of New York City; arguing for the left, journalist Doug Henwood (host of WBAI’s Behind the News, and editor/publisher of the Left Business Observer).
KITSCH, OR TWO FOR THE PRICE OF ONE
November 12 – 29
Thursdays – Saturdays, 8pm; Sundays, 3pm
Special Debate following November 22 matinee featuring Joseph Dobrian and Douglas Henwood
No show November 26, Thanksgiving
at Theater for the New City’s Johnson Theater
155 First Avenue, between 9th and 10th
Tix: $15/ TDF vouchers accepted
(Special post-Thanksgiving rate: $10 November 27-28-29)
More info: (212) 254-1109 (ask about group rates and other special offers)
Purchases: OvationTix
Also you could go here: www.theaterforthenewcity.net
Kitsch was written by Trav S.D. on MacDowell, and Edward F. Albee Fellowships, on a grant from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. The play also contains nine original songs by Trav S.D.
Kitsch is directed by Ian W. Hill of Gemini Collisionworks (ably assisted by Berrit Johnson) and features Trav S.D., Kate Valentine (a.k.a “Miss Astrid” from the long-running VaVa Voom Room), Audrey Crabtree (The Bouffon Glass Menajoree), as well as Gyda Arber, Aaron Baker, Tom Bibla, Lily Burd, Betsy Head, William Kahn, John Kelly, Gavin Starr Kendall, Pete Macnamara, Josh Mertz, Brian Mott, Roger Nasser, Avery Pearson, Michele Schlossberg, Esther Silberstein, Jillian Tully (Nov. 14 only) and Michael Whitney. Set design is by David Brune; costumes by Karen Flood.
Note: the November 22 performance will be followed by a special program moderated by Trav S.D., presented at no extra charge: a debate entitled “Is the East Better Off?” Arguing the pro-capitalism side will be Joseph Dobrian, The Libertarian Party’s 2009 candidate for Mayor of New York City; arguing for the left, journalist Doug Henwood (host of WBAI’s Behind the News, and editor/publisher of the Left Business Observer).
KITSCH, OR TWO FOR THE PRICE OF ONE
November 12 – 29
Thursdays – Saturdays, 8pm; Sundays, 3pm
Special Debate following November 22 matinee featuring Joseph Dobrian and Douglas Henwood
No show November 26, Thanksgiving
at Theater for the New City’s Johnson Theater
155 First Avenue, between 9th and 10th
Tix: $15/ TDF vouchers accepted
(Special post-Thanksgiving rate: $10 November 27-28-29)
More info: (212) 254-1109 (ask about group rates and other special offers)
Purchases: OvationTix
Also you could go here: www.theaterforthenewcity.net
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