Mabou Mines
Pataphysics Penyeach: Summa Dramatica/Porco Morto
Written and Directed by Lee Breuer

Mabou Mines Studio 150 First Avenue (At 9th Street)

Tickets $25 for both, or $15 each: theatermania.com, 212-352-3101 or 866-811-4111

 
Photo credit: Julie Archer

“As fabulously far-fetched as it is brilliant, injected with comedic irony.” -Irish Independent of Breuer’s writing

Mabou Mines presents avant-garde legend Lee Breuer’s Pataphysics Pennyeach (a la Alfred Jarry), two one acts: Summa Dramatica – a spiritual acting lesson, and Porco Morto – a memorial service for Gonzo Porco PhD, an avant-garde pig. Delivered as a lecture/postscript to William James’ “Varieties of Religious Experience”, Summa sends up and up and up into the ionosphere -“Acting-in-Itself”. A post-obit Porco comes back to life via a bunraku puppet. OBIE award winners Ruth Maleczech and Greg Mehrten star as a four-armed bovine Goddess, and as an old pot head pig who fell in love with The New York Times when he realized he had always wanted to screw the system.

Running Times: 40 minutes (Summa), 45 minutes (Porco)

Thursday, January 8 - Sunday, January 18

Thurs-Sat Jan 8-10 & 15-17: Summa at 7:30pm, Porco at 9:00pm
Sun Jan 11 & 18, Summa at 3:00pm, Porco at 4:30pm

Developed in workshops at The Flea Theater and the Actors’ Studio and made possible through generous support from the New York City Dept. of Cultural Affairs, NYSCA, The Henson Foundation, and The Ruth Abrams Foundation.