The OBIE Award-winning new version
December 10-13, 2009
Arts Bank at the University of the Arts
Broad and South Streets
Philadelphia, PA

"This spellbinding curiosity from the Pig Iron Theatre Company of Philadelphia was the gem of the Off Off Broadway season." - Charles Isherwood, Top 10 of 2008, The New York Times

directed by Dan Rothenberg
featuring Quinn Bauriedel, Chad Lindsey, James Sugg, and Dito van Reigersberg

Following hot on the heels of their groundbreaking Live Arts Festival hit WELCOME TO YUBA CITY, Pig Iron Theatre Company returns with a new version of their acclaimed concoction of Chekhovian misunderstanding, neuroscience, and outsider art. James Sugg's OBIE-winning portrayal of an introverted botanist is at the center of a dizzying and poignant web of memory, vaudeville, and stories that won't stay straight.

"The performance juggles ideas about Chekhov, about playmaking, about what the theater's for, mixing them with bigger matters: love, honesty, friendship, and justice; our relation to nature, to each other, ultimately to ourselves. Nothing's insisted on and little is stated overtly; the show's almost aggressively un-didactic. As with Chekhov, the things we understand from it hang in the atmosphere, articulated but unspoken, engulfing the characters. The result is a kind of exhilarating despair." - Michael Feingold, Village Voice

Dates:
December 10, 8 PM
December 11, 7 PM
December 11, 10 PM
December 12, 2 PM
December 12, 8 PM
December 13, 3 PM

Visit www.pigiron.org for more information.