WaxFactory's DELIRIUM 27 Plays March 24-28

WaxFactory's Year 11 Retrospective season concludes its mainstage presentations with DELIRIUM 27, set to play Wednesday, March 24 - Sunday, March 28 at Abrons Arts Center (466 Grand Street). An international co-production with Integrali (Ljubljana, Slovenia), this marks the American premiere of DELIRIUM 27, a hybrid performance melding sound, text, movement, architecture and video technology written and directed by Erika Latta (Co-Founder/Co-Artistic Director, WaxFactory). 

Since its formation in 1998 by Ivan Talijancic and Erika Latta, WaxFactory has established itself as one of the most internationally active multidisciplinary groups to emerge from New York's downtown scene, creating new performance, installation, film and video works featuring an innovative blend of physical performance, audio-visual, architectural and fashion design, and an integrated use of the new media and technology. In addition to site-specific works created for unconventional locations in the U.S. and abroad, WaxFactory's work has been presented at renowned venues/events such as: ICA/Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), the Gulbenkian Museum (Lisbon, Portugal), SommerSzene (Salzburg, Austria), OLTRE90 (Milan), FIT/Int'l Theatre Festival (Caracas), MESS Festival (Sarajevo, Bosnia), Cankarjev Dom (Ljubljana, Slovenia) and the Adelaide Festival (Australia), among others. In the company's first ten years, it developed, premiered and toured many innovative performance projects in nearly 30 countries in Europe, South America and Australia - often away from its NYC homebase.

WaxFactory proudly ushers in its second decade with the current Year 11 Retrospective, featuring the recent international co-productions BLIND.NESS and DELIRIUM 27, and a reimagining of QUARTET, which has toured the widely since 2002.

In an unknown amount of time, under the hum of the electric lights, a fever takes hold of Ode Black, who is being held under investigation for a crime. On the border of a breakdown, remnants of his former life blur the lines of memory, imagination and forgotten thoughts, while humor becomes his only compass out of the darkness.

International and interdisciplinary, DELIRIUM 27 unites collaborators from Slovenia, the U.S. and Italy in an artistic investigation of the struggle to regain one's bearings after loss, and its distorting effect on interpreting the past. Diverse design and performance elements build a multilayered dramaturgy depicting a mind grappling to reconstruct memories. Written and directed by Erika Latta, DELIRIUM 27 took shape in Ljubljana in collaboration with Bunker Productions. The script was developed in 2006 at the Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart, Germany), where Latta was awarded a fellowship in the Performing Arts to develop a piece on memory. This project evolved through a reading at Albert Watson's former studio in New York (Fall 2007), and was staged for the first time in Ljubljana at the Old Power Station (January 2008). This production is supported by the Trust For Mutual Understanding, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, the Manhattan Community Arts Fund administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Nancy Quinn Fund administered by A.R.T./New York, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.

DELIRIUM 27 features performances by Eric Dean Scott, Gregor Gruden, Primoz Bezjek and Gillian
Chadsey. This production includes set by Minimart, video by Antonio Giacomin, sound design by Miha Klemencic of Random Logic, technical direction/lights by Igor Remeta and props by Philippe Laliard and Erika Latta. Executive producers are Ivan Talijancic for WaxFactory (New York) and Simona Semenic for Integrali (Ljubljana).

Writer/Director Erika Latta is Co-Founder & Co-Artistic Director of WaxFactory. With the company, her work has been presented at some of the foremost international performance venues and museums. Upcoming directing projects: a site-specific audio installation titled HIDDEN STORIES with Begat Theater and Peter Holmstrom of the DAndy Warhols (France, 2010) and a new site-specific work on a film set entitled STRANGE JOY which is slated to premiere at Theater Oberhausen in Germany. Most recently, she performed in WaxFactory's BLIND.NESS at Abron's Art Center, and in QUARTET v4.0 at the Lincoln Center/NYPL Performing Revolution festival. She will appear in the upcoming WaxFactory performance of Haruki Murakami's AFTER DARK (Japan Society, Spring 2011). Recipient of a fellowship at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Germany for DELIRIUM 27 and a Bogliasco Fellowship in Italy of this year to write STRANGE JOY. She holds a MFA in acting at Columbia University.

?DELIRIUM 27 plays Wednesday, March 24 - Sunday, March 28 as follows: Wednesday through
Saturday at 8:00 PM and Sunday at 5:00 PM. Abrons Arts Center is located at 466 Grand Street.
Tickets are $15. Tickets are available at (212) 352-3101.

MORE ABOUT THE CURRENT SEASON:
• WaxFactory's BLIND.NESS (Love is a four-letter word) appeared at Abrons Arts Center as part of
COIL 2010, PS122's winter festival featuring the best of the past, present and future of contemporary
performance as a follow-up to its acclaimed world premiere at PS122 in Fall 2008.
• QUARTET v4.0 appeared as part of the Performing Revolution in Central and Eastern Europe, a
festival coordinated by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (Nov 2009 - March 2010).
Dates: February 24-28 at Abrons Arts Center.
WaxFactory concludes its Year 11 season this Spring with the following:
YUGOSTALGIA, a visual arts exhibition at HERE Arts Center (March 3 - May 1)
SPOTLIGHT CROATIA, an evening of new plays from Croatia at Martin E. Segal Theatre Center (May 13)
X-YU, a festival of new dance from the former Yugoslavia at Dixon Place & Dance New Amsterdam (May 26-29)

For more information and updates, follow WaxFactory at:
www.waxfactory.org / www.henrystreet.org/arts / www.ps122.org / www.performingrevolution.org
facebook: waxfactory / twitter: waxfactory

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