A LITTLE PIECE OF THE SUN, GEORGE BATAILLE'S BATHROBE, BLOOD ON THE CAT'S NECK, And SACRIFICIAL OFFERINGS Among The CollisionWorks

Gemini CollisionWorks and The Brick Theater, Inc. present The Collisionworks, an annual presentation of theatre from Gemini CollisionWorks. The presentation includes 4 Shows designed and directed by Ian W. Hill and assisted by Berit Johnson.

A Little Piece of the Sun
by Daniel McKleinfeld

A documentary for the stage, examining the stories of serial killer Andrei Chikatilo and the 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor through a collage of found texts that reveal these two stories of mass death to be one story of institutional corruption.  A theatrical autopsy where Art is the only scalpel sharp enough to cut through the mangled flesh of the lies to reveal the glowing fragment of truth underneath it all.

August 7, 12, 15, 21, 23 & 27 @ 8.00 pm; August 9, 16, & 30 @ 3.00 pm

George Bataille's Bathrobe
by Richard Foreman

An abstract play by Richard Foreman that receives its first fully-staged English-Language production, interpreted here as the story of an elderly, controversial writer in a prison (perhaps real, perhaps metaphoric) on his dying day, as he is confronted with his memories and regrets made flesh, both tormenting him and attempting to help him pass out of this life with peace and acceptance.

August 8, 11, 13, 18, 20, 28 & 29 @ 8.00 pm; August 22 & 23 @ 4.00 pm

Blood on The cat's Neck
by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
(sometimes subtitled "Marilyn Monroe vs. The Vampires")

A 1971 play by the iconoclastic playwright/filmmaker in which a beautiful, blonde, vampiric Amazon of a space alien is dropped into a bourgeois cocktail party of an unlikely group of guests to attempt to learn about human beings, without much success, until her plundering of the guests' minds becomes a more direct and physical acquisition of their life essences.

August 9, 14, 19, 22, 25 & 26 @ 8.00 pm; August 8, 15, & 29 @ 4.00 pm

Sacrificial Offerings
by David Finkelstein & Ian W. Hill

Sacrificial Offerings began as an improvisational performance duet created by the two authors as the basis for a multilayered video artwork by Mr. Finkelstein for his Lake Ivan Performance Group. Mr. Hill has taken the improvised text and transformed it into the story of a drawing room séance among the upper class of many decades past, with a version of Mr. Finkelstein's video presented mid-performance as the appearance of the "spirits" into the room.

August 8, 14, 22, & 28 @ 10.30 pm; August 16 & 30 @ 8.00 pm; August 15, 23, & 29 @ 2.00 pm

All tickets: $15 (except Sacrificial Offerings: $10)
Or 2 shows for $25, 3 for $35, or all four for $40!
All tickets available at Theatermania (212-352-3101)

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