Zomboid! (Film Performance Project #1)
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jan 12, 2006
Closed Apr 9, 2006

Playing at
The Ontological Theater

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Running Time:
1hr. 5min.

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

For many years Richard Foreman has performed dense, multi-layered theater for sold out audiences. But now he risks everything!

As announced - he is departing from his normal theatrical mode and beginning a new adventure. Zomboid! (Film Performance Project #1) marks the advent of a series of performances dominated by projected tableaux vivants against which live actors (and in the case of Zomboid!, multiple transcendental donkeys) appear and disappear.

Zomboid! (Film Performance Project #1) marks the space of a new and uniquely Foreman kind of philosophically oriented performance which lives in the heretofore unfathomable territory between projected image and on-stage corporality.

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THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:

The Ontological Theater

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WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

Richard Foreman is up to his old tricks again. The groundbreaking downtown writer-director-designer is known for his unique approach to both text and staging; he eschews traditional narrative structure in favor of a more imagistic and aural vocabulary that focuses on theme, variance, and repetition. There's a marked similarity to much of his work, which is why it came as something of a surprise last year when Foreman announced that he would no longer be making what he called "phantasmagorical stage puzzles" and was instead planning to utilize film in his future theatrical work.

His new piece, titled Zomboid! (Film/Performance Project #1), is the first in this series -- but it's not a whole [...]

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Reviewed by Dan Bacalzo on Jan 25, 2006