Chekhov Lizardbrain
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Oct 9, 2008
Closed Oct 19, 2008
Opened Oct 9, 2008
Closed Oct 19, 2008
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Running Time:
1hr. 30min.
1hr. 30min.
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
This is the New York Premiere of Chekhov Lizardbrain, a surreal comedy loosely inspired by Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters and the "Three Brain" theory of Paul D. MacLean.
Chekhov Lizardbrain dives into the center of an autistic mind. In twists and turns that take us from neuroscience to a domestic squabble to the circus ring, Chekhov Lizardbrain captures a mind as it zigzags back and forth over troubling memories, attempting to mold them into neat Russian dramas. Dmitri, our protagonist, replays his memories until they are ornamented and decorated into a comforting fiction; what we witness is a kind of mental circus.
THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:
Ohio Theatre
66 Wooster St
New York, NY 10012
The Ohio Theatre, founded in 1979, seats approximately 120 people in a 4000 square foot converted hat factory. Soho Think Tank uses this space as its home, tackling some of the more challenging themes of our time in plays dealing with politics, sex, [...] Read More
66 Wooster St
New York, NY 10012
The Ohio Theatre, founded in 1979, seats approximately 120 people in a 4000 square foot converted hat factory. Soho Think Tank uses this space as its home, tackling some of the more challenging themes of our time in plays dealing with politics, sex, [...] Read More
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You may leave the theater scratching your head at the end of Chekhov Lizardbrain, Pig Iron Theatre Company's weird but compelling show making its New York premiere at the Ohio Theater. The work features text by Robert Quillen Camp and direction by Dan Rothenberg, but is billed as being "conceived and created" by the company, which rightly places the emphasis on the oddball characterizations of its four-person cast.
The piece is a memory play in the most literal sense. The show's master of ceremonies, Chekhov Lizardbrain (James Sugg), brings us into the mind of Dmitri (also Sugg) who reminisces on his experience of buying a house from three brothers -- Nicholas/Nikolai (Dito van Reigersberg[...]