HERE to Present Betts' The Error of Their Ways, 8/30-9/2

Torben Betts' The Error of Their Ways will run as part of The American Living Room Festival at HERE Arts Center (145 Sixth Avenue, between Spring and Broome) from Thursday, August 30th - Sunday, September 2nd, 2007.

Previewing at The HERE Arts Center's American Living Room Festival, this World Premiere is designed by leading animator Thomas Hicks, Video Artist Liz Magic Laser, Stage Designer Peter Lin gand Lighting Designer Charles Foster. Directed by James Dacre (Orpheus in the Underworld at Cambridge Arts Theatre, etc.), this work-in-progress features an original musical score by Jonathan Styles.

"The Error of Their Ways is a shattering re-imagination of life as we live it now set in the
context of a bloody revolution. A brutal political assassination robs a nation of itscharismatic
President and thrusts his beautiful, icy widow into the
limelight.
 As the people demand blood and vengeance, she must choose
between
the prospect of immense power and her depraved love of the
assassin. This skewed world spins giddily between the
surreal, the mundane and a ghastly graphic reality. Powerful poetic language, raw emotion, dark humor and big uncomfortable ideas build a fast moving story about a morally-bankrupt political system and its effects on those who profit from it, those who merely acquiesce to it and those who oppose it," state press notes.

Torben Betts (A Listening Heaven, Incarcerator) has just won Best New Play 2007 for his most recent work (The Unconquered) at the Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland.

This work is presented as part of The American Living Room, which provides artist fees, marketing and technical support.

"Since 1993, HERE has been one of New York's most prolific producing organizations, and today, it stands at the forefront of the city's presenters of daring new hybrid art. HERE supports multidisciplinary work that does not fit into a conventional programming agenda. Our aesthetic represents the independent, the innovative, and the experimental."

All performances are at 8:30pm.  Visit www.here.org for more information.