Jun 29, 2014
3PM
“Surreal marriage of absurdism, pitch-black comedy, and vaudeville from director Robert Wilson. Based on the recently rediscovered writings of Russian avant-garde author Daniil Kharms—a master of Beckettian and Kafkaesque nonsensical drama—and adapted by Darryl Pinckney, Wilson’s meticulously designed production riffs ingeniously on Kharms’ warped, disorienting world. Exquisitely lit sets flicker between flatness and depth, repeated gestures and phrases become deliriously strange, and Baryshnikov and Dafoe dazzle as two sides of the same corkscrewed mind, tending darkly to their unknown visitor.”
Direction, set design, and lighting concept by Robert Wilson
with Mikhail Baryshnikov and Willem Dafoe
Written by Daniil Kharms
Adapted by Darryl Pinckney
Music by Hal Willner
THE BEST THING I’VE EVER BEEN TO IN MY LIFE
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