PS 122 Presents 'Welcome to Nowhere' Feb.20 - 23

Performance Space 122 presents Temporary Distortion's Welcome to Nowhere (bullet hole road), with performances Wednesday, February 20 - Saturday, February 23.

"Part road movie, part fractured memory, part love story... Welcome to Nowhere (bullet hole road) is a hybrid of theatre and cinema. During the performance, a constant stream of video is projected above the cast. In scenes of prolonged stillness, silence and impassivity, doppelgangers of the onstage characters navigate a hyper-real cinematic landscape as if lost in a dream, creating parallel narratives that echo, reflect and refract each moment of the play," explain press notes.

"Staged in one of Temporary Distortion's signature, claustrophobic boxlike installations, the live performers' softly spoken words are amplified by microphones. Referencing filmic styles of performance, underplayed and restrained, they tell the story of a man who is haunted by his past and drifting across America. There is blood across the dashboard, headlights in the rear-view mirror and the vague memory of a hitchhiker who may have been a dream… Temporary Distortion's performances are characterized by an explicit obsession with sculptural form and are enclosed in claustrophobic boxlike structures, lined with industrial lights and entangled by all manner of cables, video monitors, speakers and microphones, to create hyper mediated four-dimensional objects that tell a story."

Welcome to Nowhere (bullet hole road) features writing, direction, scenic & lighting design by Kenneth Collins (past resident artist at Ontological-Hysteric Theater) with video by William Cusick (projection design, The Coast of Utopia and Dead City); music by and sound by John Sully; costumes by TaraFawn Marek; and performances by Ben Beckley (The Flea Theater), Stacey Collins, Brian Greer, Lorraine Mattox, Jessica Grace Pagan and Stephanie Silver.

Temporary Distortion has been hosted numerous times as a resident company at Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theater and as guest artists at The Chocolate Factory.  In March, they will take Welcome to Nowhere to the VIA Festival International in Maubeuge, France and in April to the Exit Festival in Paris, where they will also mount gallery installations based on the play.  Welcome to Nowhere received its New York premiere at The Chocolate Factory as part of its Visiting Artist Program.

Welcome to Nowhere (bullet hole road) will be performed from Wednesday, February 20 -Saturday, February 23 on the following schedule at P.S. 122 (150 First Avenue @ E. 9th Street):  Wednesday - Saturday at 8 p.m.  Tickets from $20, $15 (students/seniors), $10 P.S. 122 (members) and may be purchased by calling Theatermania at 212.352.3101 or online at www.ps122.org.

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