Coney Island Avenue
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Aug 6, 2009
Closed Aug 16, 2009
Opened Aug 6, 2009
Closed Aug 16, 2009
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Sixdollarsinmypocket productions presents the world premiere of Charles L. Mee's Coney Island Avenue, directed by Anjali Vashi.
The piece is an explosion of spoken word performance, film, live and recorded music and dance. It takes an acute look into the varied lives and ever day struggles of the dynamic and diverse population of Brooklyn, New York in 2009. As in many of Mee's pieces, this production represents the rich multitude of nationalities, ethnicities, languages, social and economic identities that exist along this treasured avenue.
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A muscular, heavily tattooed man is thrown down repeatedly by a slender young woman. A group of musicians is drowned out by a woman wailing the lyrics to Alan Jackson's "When Somebody Loves You." A group of men strike body-building positions as a recording of the Village People's "Macho Man" is blared over the speakers. These are a few of the vivid sequences in Charles Mee's collage-like Coney Island Avenue, now receiving its world premiere at New York Theater Workshop's Fourth Street Theater, under the capable direction of Anjali Vashi.
The piece is an exploration of Brooklyn and the diversity of its inhabitants, represented here by a rather large, multi-ethnic cast. Throughout the 90-min[...]