Ellen Stewart Theatre | 66 E 4th Street; 2nd Floor
Wednesday to Saturday at 7pm; Saturday matinee at 2pm; Sunday at 4pm

By The Talking Band
Written and Directed by Paul Zimet
Music by Ellen Maddow
Set Design by Nic Ularu
Video Design by Baxter Engle
Lighting Design by Lenore Doxsee
Costume Design by Kiki Smith
Puppet Design by Ralph Lee

A room in a country house sings of those who have lived there over a span of seventy years. Performed with striking theatricality by OBIE award winning Talking Band using an array of genres – 40’s Noir, Chinese Ghost Tale, Chekhovian Farce/Tragedy, and a Sicilian Puppet Opera sung by beavers – their stories intertwine and illumine each other.

The audience sees a multiple, fractured view of a place. We see the view through the room’s windows – a side porch, a lawn, a flower garden with a rose arbor, a pond with a dock – and the people who inhabit these settings. As the play unfolds, one setting comes into the foreground as another recedes. The scenes move on rolling platforms so we them not only from different distances but from different angles as well, and soon we comes to realize that we are seeing the characters not only from different points of view but also at different moments in time.

March 31-April 3: $25 Adult Tickets; $20 Students/Seniors | April 5-April 16: $30 Adult Tickets; $20 Students/Seniors & Limited $10 Tickets
75 Minutes | No Intermission