Tumor Brainiowicz
Theater of a Two-Headed Calf
August 17-19
chashama presents:
Daniel Gerould’s translation of
“Tumor Brainiowicz”
by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
a work in progress
Performed and Produced by Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf
Brooke O’Harra directs and Brendan Connelly composes.
August 17-19 at 8:00pm
111 West 42nd Street between Broadway & 6th Avenue
Tickets $8
info@twoheadedcalf.org
This
1920’s Avante-Garde drama by Polish author Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
is based on the life of Mathematician Georg Cantor, the man who proved the
existance of infinity. He undermined the principal mathematicians of the time
and ended up in a mental institution until his death in 1919.
You’ll witness Tumor/Cantor’s world transform from a child’s
nursery to the surreal Island of Timor. Here he indulges in incest, murder
and high math among a band of Malays (Violin, Bass Clarinet, Bassoon, and
Percussion) and an assortment of exotic puppets.
Sunsets and oceans, beautiful hand puppets, repetitious stage transformations,
live music, poetry, repetitious stage transformations and the really good
actors tell this peculiar story.
The
cast is Holter Graham, Kelly VanZile, Nicky Paraiso, and Mary Regan.
Part
opera, part drama, and part puppet show, Tumor Brainiowicz premieres in full
at La Mama in March, 2002.
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