NYC Players Closes ADS At PS 122 2/6

NYC PLAYERS/ RICHARD MAXWELL'S ADS will play its final performance on February 6 at PS 122.

Ads marks a new departure in the work of celebrated downtown auteur Richard Maxwell and NYC Players. Moving into and beyond traditional video screening, and projecting video into the realm of live performance, Ads stages three-dimensional video recordings in the theater as theatre. Recorded speeches make the appeal for independence, displaying ideas and beliefs held up to be essential. Are we humble? Are we great? Can we begin to claim back space?

In collaboration with photographer/cinematographer Michael Schmelling and Wooster Group technical director Bozkurt Karasu, Maxwell asks these questions and more: Whether theatre is possible without a human presence. Can verisimilitude be enhanced by technology?

And perhaps most importantly: How can we address these questions in a live performance?

Ads is presented by Performance Space 122. Ads was a featured presentation in COIL 2010 in association with Under the Radar. ;

Performance Space 122 is New York's ultimate destination for cutting-edge theatre, dance, music, live art and multi-media. PS122 is dedicated to supporting and presenting artists who explore innovative form and provocative content and who rigorously challenge the boundaries of contemporary performance; PS122 is committed to a steadfast search for pioneering artists from a diversity of cultures, nations and beliefs. www.ps122.org

Tickets and PS122 Passports are now on sale and available online at www.ps122.org, by calling TheaterMania at 212-352-3101, and at the Performance Space 122 Box Office.

Note: The PS122 Passport is a bundle of 5 tickets for only $55 that can be used in ANY combination to onsite Spring 2010 season performances. Performance Space 122 is located at 150 First Avenue @ E. 9th Street, New York, NY 10009

 

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