Thursday, February 01, 2007

In Which I Pimp My Art



FEBRUARY 14 THROUGH MARCH 10
Wednesdays through Saturdays
8:15 PM

WHERE EAGLES DARE
347 WEST 36TH STREET
(between 8th and 9th avenues)
1, 2, 3, A, C, E to 34th Street
13TH FLOOR BLACKBIRD THEATER

$18

RESERVATIONS: (917) 916-1307

Constructed from no less than 25 text sources (memoirs, documentaries, plays, poetry, novels, films, reality tv shows), the piece tells the story of the CIA's 1953 coup against Iran's first democratically-elected government. Placed in a casino context, the densely-layered performance explores how the addiction to risk and gambling has become a potent metaphor for U.S. foreign policy.

JAY SMITH as CIA Senior Officer KERMIT "Kim" Roosevelt
GAVIN STARR KENDALL as Grand Ayatollah KHOMEINI
ALBERT AEED as Secretary of State John Foster DULLES
NICHOLAS WARREN-GRAY as The SHAH of Iran
KELLY MARKUS as British U.N. Representative Gladwyn JEBB
DOROTHY ABRAHAMS as Prime Minister Mohammad MOSSADEGH
RODNEY HAKIM as dissident writer and poet Reza BARAHENI

Sets and Costumes: ARNULFO MALDONADO
Lights: LUCAS KRECH
Sound: DUNCAN CUTLER

Text Constructed by NOEL SALZMAN and TAMARA SCHMIDT
with Meghan Frank, Mireya Lucio, Armistead Johnson and Rodney Hakim

Press Contact: JUDD HOLLANDER for Bunch of People Productions
bnchpeop@aol.com / 212- 242-1648

Directed by NOEL SALZMAN

Work-in-progress presentations took place at
The Chocolate Factory, NYC (12/04) and Where Eagles Dare, NYC (1/06)

1 comment:

SUEB0B said...

Just wanted to say Hi...I am another Red Stapler! It's pretty funny that we seem to have a similar worldview, too.