GIT ALONG LIL DOGGIES is described as "a meditative, cowboy dance-drama about the spiritual imprint of the windswept landscape of the American west. In an impressionistic narrative drawn from a variety of sources, two outlaws on the trail of an old adversary take work as jewel thieves for a washed up brothel madam. In a chance encounter with a traveling magician, they locate their enemy and conjure the violent forces of nature through sex-magic to take revenge."
GIT ALONG LIL DOGGIES commingles elements of
William S. Burroughs’ novel
The Place of Dead Roads, with short stories by Annie Proulx, country-western line dance, and gay pornography. The performance unfolds against a projected video landscape of repainted Marlboro cigarette TV commercials and within an immersive soundscape incorporating country-western recordings from the 1920’s–30’s and contemporary new age music for pedal steel guitar.
Directed by
Yvan Greenberg, Laboratory Theater’s signature layering of choreography, text, sound, indeterminacy, and imitation, provides a continuously shifting framework for a reconsideration of the outlaw, frontier spirit that continues to shape the mindsets of Americans in the 21st Century. Performed by
Corey Dargel,
Oleg Dubson,
Wil Smith, and
Sammy Tunis.
Three performances only, Thurs–Sat, June 28–30 at 8:00pm
at The Performing Garage, 33 Wooster Street, between Grand and Broome, NYC
Tickets are $20, cash only at the door, and may be reserved in advance
by phone:
212-966-3651, or by email:
mail@thewoostergroup.org