The Builders Association, Improbable, et al. Set for WEXner Center’s 2009 Season

The Wexner Center for the Arts in Colombus, Ohio, has announced its winter/spring 2009 lineup in performing arts, film, visual arts, architecture, and design from around the globe.

Among the theater-related highlights will be Switzerland’s Theater Sgaramusch in Wolf Under the Bed (January 16-17), a family-oriented show aimed at kids who love scary stories; Japanese theater company chelfitsch in Five Days in March (February 12-14), set during the days immediately before the U.S.’s 2003 “shock and awe” bombing of Iraq; Ray Lee’s Siren (February 26-28), a sound installation by the British composer and artist; British company Improbable’s Panic (March 4-7), which plumbs the depths of love, sex, and panic; The Builders Association’s Continuous City (April 16-18), which looks at how our “networked selves” are stretched to occupy multiple locations; and Welsh actor Hugh Hughes, of the ensemble Hoipolloi, in Story of a Rabbit (May 14-17), a tragicomic narrative about finding his neighbor’s pet rabbit lying dead in his garden.

For more information, visit wexarts.org.