Controversial Comedy - 'Three Angels Dancing on a Needle'

By: Beau Higgins Oct. 14, 2006

Square Peg Productions premiere presentation is a controversial play by an exiled Iranian artist.

Square Peg Productions in partnership with Deluxe Arts, presents Three Angels Dancing on a Needle, a controversial comedy about sex, angst, and the rodent from Orlando, by exiled Iranian playwright, Assurbanipal Babilla.

Directed by Michael Yawney and featuring Miriam Kulick, Merry Jo Pitasi, and Odell Rivas.

Deluxe Arts
2051 NW 2nd Avenue, in the Wynwood district of Miami

Suggested donation: $10 – cash only

For info and reservations call: (786) 214-6040

Saturday, October 14 – 8:00 pm
Sunday, October 15 – 2:00 pm
Wednesday, October 18 – 8:00 pm
Thursday, October 19 – 8:00 pm
Sunday, October 22 – 2:00 pm

Square Peg Productions is a new theatre group dedicated to producing alternative theatre that does not fit neatly into round holes. With this production, Square Peg begins a partnership with Deluxe Arts that will bring together the worlds of visual art and theatre.

This first production is the comedy, Three Angels Dancing on a Needle by Assurbanipal Babilla. Three Angels Dancing on a Needle is a comedy about pure love, pure lust, and all the impure thoughts in between. Three characters play out absurd fantasies of sex and revenge as they look for happiness in all the wrong places. Three Angels, has been performed across the U.S, and in Europe. Square Peg's Production is its Southeastern premiere.

Babilla was a well-known playwright/director /painter/ sculptor. After his exhibit of erotic nude self-portraits was put on trial, banned, and subsequently burned during Khomeni's regime, he fled his country in 1979. His work often examines the clash of the spiritual and the sexual parts of human nature using outrageous humor and shocking
imagery. Last year he was awarded a Hellman/Hammett grant in recognition of his courage in the face of political persecution.

The evening will begin with a short curtain-raiser, Nerves, an
original movement/theatre piece, inspired by playwright, Charles Mee, that compresses a lifetime of bad dates into fifteen minutes. This piece was developed and created by the Square Peg company.

Both pieces will be performed by Miriam Kulick, Merry Jo Pitasi, and Odell Rivas under the direction of Michael Yawney.

Deluxe Arts is a collaboration of exhibition space for Miami and international artists, a rehearsal/recording studio and courtyard for conversation and transcending the ordinary. Presenting performance artist, visual artists, musicians, dancers, and theatre, the studio will conspire to present things that can shock, amuse, seduce, and just entertain.

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