Pataphysics Penyeach: Summa Dramatica & Porco Morto
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jan 8, 2009
Closed Jan 18, 2009
Opened Jan 8, 2009
Closed Jan 18, 2009
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Mabou Mines presents avant-garde legend Lee Breuer's Pataphysics Penyeach (a la Alfred Jarry), two one-acts: Summa Dramatica - a spiritual acting lesson, and Porco Morto - a memorial service for Gonzo Porco PhD, an avant-garde pig. Delivered as a lecture/postscript to William James' "Varieties of Religious Experience", Summa sends up and up and up into the ionosphere -"Acting-in-Itself". A post-obit Porco, author of "The Lonely Planet Guide to Heaven on Earth", comes back to life via a bunraku puppet. OBIE award winners Ruth Maleczech and Greg Mehrten star as a four-armed bovine Goddess, and as an old pot head pig who fell in love with the New York Times when he realized he had always wanted to screw the system.
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Longtime fans of downtown experimental theater troupe Mabou Mines may get a lot out of the pair of Lee Breuer's one-acts Pataphysics Penyeach, now at P.S. 122 as part of the Under the Radar Festival. However, those less familiar with the company's work are likely to find themselves a bit dumbfounded. (You can purchase a combination package to see both plays, but if you do so, there's a roughly 45-minute break between the two shows.)
In the first piece, Summa Dramatica, Ruth Maleczech stars as Sri Moo Parahamsa, a literal "sacred cow" of the theater who is decked out in a bovine costume with South Asian accents. The show is subtitled "A postscript to the Gifford Lectures of William James," a[...]