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The Flat Earth: WheredaFFFhuck Did New York Go?
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jun 19, 2008
Closed Jul 5, 2008

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http://www.dixonplace.org|www.annielanzillotto.com

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Annie Lanzillotto leads the hunt for a spiritual New York, taking the Dixon Place audience on a journey down the block and around the corner to Prince and Elizabeth Streets, where, sitting atop the corner blue mailbox, her narrative weaves a palimpsest of the geology of Manhattan and how it supports the current condo construction on that corner over where the old mozzarella maker used to be.

Bronx born private pilot lesbian poet, Annie Rachele Lanzillotto writes, acts, directs, and spins ice; her signature work as a meditation on the work of her father and grandfathers who delivered block ice in the Bronx before and after WWII.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



Dixon Place
161 Chrystie St
New York, NY 10002


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?


Annie Lanzillotto is eager to rediscover a sense of community. That's abundantly clear from her charming solo show The Flat Earth: WheredaFFFhuck Did New York Go?, being presented at Dixon Place, in which she laments the effects of gentrification and paints a nostalgic glow on how New York used to be.

As a kid, Lanzillotto and her friends would perch up on top of a mailbox and tell each other stories. Perhaps that accounts for the writer/performer's dynamic ability to weave her tales in such a compelling manner. She discusses being evicted by her landlord, her hospitalization for cancer, the bureaucracy involved in petitioning the city for low income housing -- which includes needing to h[...]


Reviewed by Dan Bacalzo on Jun 24, 2008

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