The Tank NYC Presents THE ETERNAL SPACE and SHORT ORDER, 3/22 & 23

The Tank NYC presents two 9:30pm performances of The Eternal Space by Justin Rivers and Short Order by the late, Leah Ryan that will mount March 22 and 23, 2012. The plays are a part of rural.urban.ruin an evening of plays produced and directed by Barika Taheer Edwards (host of WBAI 99.5FM's Artsy Fartsy Show) and director, Keisha Ector.

The busiest transit hub in the world, Penn Station, today is being re-evaluated as plans for the Moynihan project have stalled. The plan is to move Penn Station across 8th avenue and its architectural redesign will homage the style of the station prior to its 1966 deconstructed. In the play, The Eternal Space, Penn Station is resurrected into the light when the station was above ground; and post-modernism was riding the rails in while neo-classicalism was departing. The Eternal Space opens with Joseph Lanza (R.L. Swartz), an aging AGBANY protester during the 1960's, who is much like Brooklyn Nets Stadium project protesters, and Paul Abbot (Richard D. Busser), a Penn Station construction worker who takes photographs in his lunchtimes. During the three year period of the station's transformation into Madison Square Gardens, an office tower and the construction of an underground train station; the two men clash over ideas of how important it is to move forward and if the station is worthy of preserving one New York City's architectural marvels. Edwards goes further by relating it to New York City today and how we continue to lose the unique character of neighborhoods by the explosion of new real estate developments that does not match the sometimes historical architectural design of New York communities.

The second play part of rural.urban.ruin is Short Order, a two-act play about debt and knowledge. The first act takes place in a NYC diner and the second act takes place in truck stop somewhere in the Midwest. The play was written by the late Leah Ryan and seriously explores The Commonalities of all people no matter where they live. The Common goal of how to make life better for ourselves despite crippling debt. Keisha Ector directs the cast: Leo Goodman, JJ Pyle, Stephen Ward and Vanessa Hardy.

Performances of rural.urban.ruin will take place at The Tank NYC, 151 West 46th Street, 8th Floor, in Times Sq. March 22 at 9:30pm and March 23 at 9:30pm. Tickets are $10 through BrownPaperTickets.com or at the box office.

Photo: Justin Rivers