How to talk about the need for risk-taking space? With a microphone and cheap beer of course. Brooklyn based risk-takers Julia Mounsey & Peter Mills Weiss win hearts with their awkwardly hilarious anti-theatre.
Entrance
€ 16,-
Duration
50 minutes
Language
English
Location
Usva
Accessibility
This performance might be limited in accessibility.
Punky anti-theater by New York's underground theatremakers
“I want to talk about performance. Performance is a drug. It makes people easier to accept. I want to talk about grief, but grief is hard to talk about.” In a country with very little public funding for the arts, American artists rely on off grid, often illegal, ‘Do-It-Yourself’ autonomously run venues to take risks in daring, difficult, and outright insane projects. In open mic night critically acclaimed theatre-radicals Peter and Julia, proprietors of a very real DIY venue, stage a eulogy for an imaginary DIY venue. This loving yet incredibly awkward fictional homage proves that true collectivity comes easy by mixing dark rooms, cheap beer, and a small crowd facing the same direction. Bursting with dry, dark humour, cabaret-like interactions and uncomfortable questions, open mic night temporarily transforms the USVA Theatre into a DIY venue where transgression is the norm, and no one ever cleans the toilets.
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Ultimately, the show is a gorgeous, unsentimental eulogy to a space that may not have been real, but to an ethos that was — that perhaps still is …
Peter Mills Weiss and Julia Mounsey make work that grapples with questions of cruelty, authenticity, deception, entertainment and power. They value simple language, functional design, autobiography and vulnerability. The work has been presented at Under the Radar at the Public Theater, La MaMa, JACK, Soho Rep, the Deutches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg and the Radikal Jung festival at the Munich Volkstheater in Munich. They were both members of the 2017-2019 Soho Rep Writer/ Director Lab, the 2017-2018 Devised Theater Working Group at the Public Theater, and were Baryshnikov Arts Center Resident Artists in 2019. Julia has worked at New York City Players, Soho Rep and was assistant director on Young Jean Lee's Straight White Men. Peter has performed for or collaborated with artists such as 600 Highwaymen, The Wooster Group and Richard Foreman. The play While You Were Partying was a 2021 New York Times Critics' Choice.
Credits
Creator/Performers - Julia Mounsey and Peter Mills Weiss Touring Performer - Hannah Kallenbach Aaron Profumo - Producer Kate McGee - Dramaturg/Production Designer Kaye Loggins - Rehearsal Assistant - NYC Eben Hoffer - Touring Sound Designer Special Thanks - River Ramirez
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