and those black braids
Performed as part of LABA Live
7:30pm March 22, 2018
The 14th Street Y
344 E 14th St, New York, NY 10003
7:30pm March 22, 2018
The 14th Street Y
344 E 14th St, New York, NY 10003
A performance directed by artist Tal Beery responding to the only remaining item left of his estranged grandmother: her dubious 1949 account of surviving the Holocaust. Beery’s impossible search for her real story tangles with a painful past that, like it or not, is gone forever.
Synopsis:
Scripts in hand, two actors and a director perform a play in a fully-lit black box theater in front of an audience. The director periodically stops the actors to give notes. Audience members themselves are following the performance with scripts in hand, and are encouraged to raise their hands and momentarily stop the scene and offer notes or questions. Some actors planted in the audience help break the ice and offer increasingly critical notes that slowly undermine the director and kill the momentum of the performance, shedding light on the challenges of using theater to represent family histories.
See also:
It’s Just Not True
In his performance, visual artist Beery will respond to the only remaining item left of his estranged grandmother: her dubious 1949 account of surviving the Holocaust. Here Beery explains his ill-fated search for the real story.
https://labajournal.com/2018/03/its-just-not-true/
Synopsis:
Scripts in hand, two actors and a director perform a play in a fully-lit black box theater in front of an audience. The director periodically stops the actors to give notes. Audience members themselves are following the performance with scripts in hand, and are encouraged to raise their hands and momentarily stop the scene and offer notes or questions. Some actors planted in the audience help break the ice and offer increasingly critical notes that slowly undermine the director and kill the momentum of the performance, shedding light on the challenges of using theater to represent family histories.
See also:
It’s Just Not True
In his performance, visual artist Beery will respond to the only remaining item left of his estranged grandmother: her dubious 1949 account of surviving the Holocaust. Here Beery explains his ill-fated search for the real story.
https://labajournal.com/2018/03/its-just-not-true/
