Pig Iron Theatre Company Celebrates 20th Anniversary Next Week

Since 1995, Pig Iron Theatre Company has been making unprecedented, original work for audiences in its hometown of Philadelphia and beyond. Inspired by the work of Jacques Lecoq, Joseph Chaikin, and Toshiki Okada, the company focuses on the intersection of physical theatre, clowning, and dance, and has innovated across the physical and the textual. Pig Iron has created over 30 original works and has toured to festivals and theatres in Poland, England, Scotland, Peru, Brazil, Ireland, Japan, Italy, Romania, and Germany, among others.

Following afternoon screenings of a selection of the company's productions, founders Dan Rothenberg, Dito van Reigersberg, Pig Iron artists Mimi Lien and Jenn Kidwell, and others will talk about the company's beginnings, its journey, and vision for the future in a dialogue moderated by Rebecca Rugg, Director of the Conservatory of Theater Arts, SUNY Purchase.
SCREENINGS

12:00pm Shut Eye (2001)
A comic meditation on dreaming, sleeping, and "the ordinary," conceived
and co-directed by Joe Chaikin.

2:00pm Welcome to Yuba City (2009)
A cowboy/clown odyssey through a mythic American desertscape.

4:00pm Chekhov Lizardbrain (2008)
The OBIE-winning amalgam of faux-Russian tragicomedy and contemporary
neuroscience.

The Segal Theatre The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Ave at 34th St
FREE + open to the publicFirst come, first served
We livestream our events at www.theSegalCenter.org/home
Photo by Jason Frank Rothenberg

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