Breuer, Crouch, Joseph, Maleczech, Watts, et al. Set for 2009 Under the Radar Festival

The Public Theater has announced the 2009 line-up for the Under the Radar Festival, to be held at the Public Theater and partner venues, January 7-18. The festival, curated by Marc Russell, is committed to tracking new theater from across the U.S. and around the world.

Performances will include Amrita Performing Arts in 3 Years, 8 Months, 20 Days, in which three Cambodian actresses turn their childhood memories of the brutal Pol Pot regime into an intimately spoken, epic tale; Architecting, by
The TEAM and the National Theatre of Scotland, described as “a musical, time-bending multimedia requiem for modern America”; Lemon Anderson’s hip-hop solo, COUNTY OF KINGS: the beautiful struggle; Samuel Beckett’s First Love performed by Conor Lovett of Gare St. Lazare Players Ireland; Into The Dark Unknown: The Hope Chest, a music theater experience about moving, storage and crushes on sexy people created by Holcombe Waller; LIGA, 50% reward & 50% punishment, a multimedia piece by Netherlands troupe, Kassys; Sight is the sense that dying people tend to lose first, a free-associating monologue written and directed by Tim Etchells and performed by Jim Fletcher; Marc Bamuthi Joseph’s multimedia, choreographed hip-hop excursion, directed by Michael John Garcés; Transition, Reggie Watts and Tommy Smith’s comedic explosion of stereophonic effects and multimedia interactions; and Woyzeck, performed by Sadari Movement Laboratory in association with AsiaNow (Korea).

Partner venue events include Addicted to Bad Ideas: Peter Lorre’s 20th Century at Webster Hall; Call Cutta In A Box at Goethe Institute New York;
England, by Tim Crouch, at Chelsea Art Museum; Pataphysics Penyeach: Summa Dramatica/Porco Morto, written and directed by Lee Breuer, at Mabou Mines Studio, featuring one acts Summa Dramatica starring Ruth Maleczech and Porco Morto starring Greg Mehrten; Removable Parts and Siren at HERE Arts Center; and The Crumb Trail, at Performance Space 122.

For more information, visit www.publictheater.org.