PS 122 Presents CRIME OR EMERGENCY with Sibyl Kempson and Mike Iveson 12/4-20

PERFORMANCE SPACE 122 PRESENTS Sibyl Kempson and Mike Iveson, Jr.'s CRIME OR EMERGENCY OFFICIAL WORLD PREMIERE: FINAL EDITION December 4 - 20

PLUS Exclusive Late Night Edition: "EMERGENCY OR CRIME" Saturdays at 10PM -- Dec 12 and 19 ONLY PLUS Exclusive Holiday

Bonus Edition: "LOST ACTS OF CRIME OR EMERGENCY" One Night Only -- Tuesday, December 15
See it all. See it again.

See what you have never seen before and will never see again.

Sibyl Kempson and Mike Iveson, Jr. CRIME OR EMERGENCY OFFICIAL WORLD PREMIERE: FINAL EDITION

Theatre | Cabaret
Friday, December 4 - Sunday, December 20
Wednesday - Saturday 7:30pm / Sunday at 5:30pm

Two iconoclastic downtown performers entertain, tantalize, beguile, and finally threaten to break the elbows of our Aristotelian/Stanislavskian conceptions of contemporary American theatre and identity as we safely understand them in a new play by Sibyl Kempson. In other words...

Mike Iveson, with his demonic arrangements of the indigenous music of their native New Jersey, joins Kempson in a rapturous and obsessive melodrama of consciousness. Together they distill this 11-person play into a desperate and harried duet (Kempson performs 10 out of 11 characters; Iveson performs the 11th and underscores the entire evening with barely recognizable piano arrangements of early Bruce Springsteen songs.)

The plot begins when a routine medical examination goes critical and events quickly spiral unpredictably out of control. Inner, personal violences multiply among the characters and demand expression, all stemming from the explosion of one woman's acute but repressed medical terror.

Part cabaret fiasco, part aesthetic holocaust, their dual dueling performance pits them in a life-or-death struggle for the right to devour the soul of the play.

Written and performed by playwright/performer Sibyl Kempson with musical accompaniment and arrangements by Mike Iveson.

John Collins, directorial help. BrIan White, Production Manager. Ben Williams, Sound and Video Technician. Lighting Design TBA. Additional Surprise Performers TBA.

BONUS EDITIONS:

Late Shows "Emergency or Crime": Saturday, December 12 and Saturday, Dec 19 at 10pm. Please note that at the Late Shows, the part played by Ms. Kempson will be played by Mr. Iveson; and
the part and piano played by Mr. Iveson will be played or appear to be played by Ms. Kempson.

In this compulsory late night companion piece to "Crime or Emergency", a fifth dimension of dementia ensues. Recommended for those who have already seen Crime and Emergency or who do not get out of bed until 930 PM (wake up Spaniards!) Warning: Ears and eyes may bleed.
Tickets: $20 or get The Package: see both for $30. Details below.

Holiday Show "Lost Acts of Crime or Emergency": Tuesday, December 15 (offsite) Ms. Kempson & Mr. Iveson take past performers involved in the evolution and development of "Crime or Emergency" and hold them hostage, forcing them to relive their parts in a weird and festive Stockholm Syndrome-inspired atmosphere surrounded by the infamous debauchery of the PS122 Annual Red & White Party, downtown's definitive holiday bash. Drinking helmets recommended. Star Hostages: Kate Benson, Kourtney Rutherford, Jason Schuler, Andrew Dinwiddie, Eben Moore, Eleanor Hutchins, Susie Sokol, Jim Fletcher, Johanna S. Meyer, and more to come. Note: tickets to the 12/15 one-night-only OFF SITE extravaganza are included with admission to PS122 Red and White Party: $10 tickets/info available online at www.PS122.org.

Presented by Performance Space 122; developed at Dixon Place, Soho Rep, and Fusebox Festival. Originally developed at Dixon Place as a prefatory workshop in 2005 and as a Mondo Cane! commission in 2007 with a full cast. In January 2008, the duet version was workshopped at the Soho Rep Studio series. Made possible with the generous support of The Greenwall Foundation.

More about Sibyl and Mike: Mike Iveson has composed music for choreographer Sarah Michelson, including Group Experience (PS122), The Experts (White Oak Dance Project), Shadowmann (PS122 / the Kitchen), Love Is Everything (Lyon Opera Ballet), Daylight (PS122/Walker Art Center/On the Boards), and Dogs (BAM/ HAU. Bessie Award for Group Experience score. Contributed music to Charles Atlas's Instant Fame! and Cecilia Dougherty's film GONE. Performance as a musician includes Richard Maxwell's Ode to the Man Who Kneels. Continuing musical performance and composition for the ongoing series The Lucy Show. Solo musical works include I'm Special the Heat Is On. Performance as an actor and dancer includes many of the above-mentioned Sarah Michelson works; and with Elevator Repair Service: the world tour of GATZ, The Sound and the Fury, and The Sun Also Rises.

Sibyl Kempson is based in NYC and the Pocono Mountains. She performs in NYC and internationally in collaboration with NYC Players and Elevator Repair Service, as well as in her own plays. Her productions include Potatoes of August (Dixon Place), Zeit af der KürbisGeistNachten (or) It's a Good Life if You Don't Weaken (Dixon Place), Bad Girls Good Writers (Brick Theater), The Secret Death of Puppets (or) How Do Puppets Die? (or) Puppets Die in Secret (CATCH!), (In)communicable, (Con)Genital, Incommensurable (13th St Theater), The Wytche of Problymm Plantation (Dixon Place), and more; in progress: Kyckling and Screaming, an adaptation of Ibsen's The Wild Duck, and At the Kingdom's Gate: Prelude, a translation of Knut Hamsun's Ved Rigets Port: Forspil. Her work is published by the Brooklyn Review, Midway Literary Journal, i-theatron, 53rd State Press, and Semiotext(e) Native Agents/MIT Press. Founding member of the Joyce Cho Initiative and of Machiqq Women's Auxiliary playwriting group. Professor of literature at Brooklyn College and of playwriting at Bloomfield College in NJ; also teaches Adult Basic Education to parents of elementary school students at P.S. 27 in Brooklyn.

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 to "Crime or Emergency" and "Emergency or Crime" Single tickets: $20, $15 (students/seniors); The Package: see BOTH for $30; Available at http://www.ps122.org/ or by calling TheaterMania at 212-352-3101.

Performance Space 122 is located at 150 First Avenue @ E. 9th Street, New York,
NY 10009

 

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