Fall Benefit with Lou Reed

The Wooster Group invites you to our fall benefit on Monday, September 24, 2001

Cocktails & hors d'oeuvres 6:30 PM

Deitch Projects, 18 Wooster St.

Performance 8:00 PM

The Wooster Group's new work, To You, The Birdie! (Phèdre).
The Performing Garage, 33 Wooster St.

Party: 9:00 PM

Special appearance by Lou Reed, performing with Jane Scarpontoni, Willem Dafoe & Kate Valk. Open bar. Cocktails courtesy of Chambord. Beer from Brooklyn Brewery.
Deitch Projects, 18 Wooster St.

Tickets

$750 Patron
$350 Cocktails, performance & party
$200 Party
Reservations 212-966-3651
American Express and personal checks accepted. Reservations required.

Fall 2001 Tour

The Hairy Ape · Melbourne & Paris

Written by Eugene O'Neill in 1921, The Hairy Ape is one of a group of expressionist plays from O'Neill's early works. The play, in eight scenes, evolves as a stark and pitiless description of what happens to a stoker in the boiler room of a transatlantic liner, Yank Smith, when his animal superiority is shattered by a chance encounter with the daughter of a steel magnate who calls him a 'filthy beast,' translated by Yank's shipmates as 'hairy ape.' Scene by scene it follows Yank's tragic descent as he attempts to get back at her and her kind.

North Atlantic · Paris

First developed by The Wooster Group in 1983 North Atlantic takes a satiric look at how our culture at the end of the 20th century has been shaped by the rising influence of technology and the role of the military after the Vietnam war and before the fall of the Berlin Wall. The play is about an international peacekeeping force with a secret mission, on board an aircraft carrier in the North Atlantic Ocean, and the cultural and sexual dynamics that rise to the fore.

To You, The Birdie! · Paris

Based on Paul Schmidt's translation of Racine's Phèdre, the new work is a soap opera of windows and reflections, confessions and confrontations set in a mobile modernist landscape of aluminum tracks, sliding plexiglass panels, omnipresent monitors and hidden cameras. The project explores private moments thrust into the public spotlight of a gymnasium world of exhibitionism and voyeurism.

International Conference
Call For Papers

»Since its formal establishment in 1975 The Wooster Group, led by director Elizabeth LeCompte, has managed to become one of the most important avant-garde theatre companies, unrivalled when it comes to bridging past, present and future; the dramatic tradition and performance art; actors' theatre and multimedia art.
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The present conference should demonstrate anew the importance of such international artistic cooperation by reinvestigating the pioneering role and continuing relevance of The Wooster Group by itself and within the larger artistic community.«

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