Fri 1/2 & Sat 1/3 @ 7-8:30PM
Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project., which specializes in presenting experimental, improvisational, often multi-disciplinary artists, and W.O.W.I.E. (“Wholesome Ohio Weirdo Independent Events zine”) have joined forced to present an artist from New York, Alex Tatarsky who is touring with a show she calls Sad Boys in Harpy Land, a “deranged adaptation” of a novel fragment by Goethe called Wilhelm Meister’s Theatrical Mission about a young man who travels around Germany trying to find a place for himself in the theater world.
It’s described as “a falling apart coming-of-age tale, a decaying bildungsroman, a semi-autobiographical tour-de-farce that takes place in the hellscape of the mind” that “chews itself up and spits itself out, embracing the fragment, the spiral, the unfinished, and the broken bits—moving through inaction born of anxiety, shame, guilt, and overwhelm towards strange & ecstatic modes of re-making the world together.”
It emerged from New York’s La Mama theater, which pioneered boundary-breaking experimental theater in the 60s, and still survives to this day! And there’s definitely still an audience for this type of theater because the promoters added a Friday date to the original Saturday date, and it’s being presented at Pilgrim UCC in Tremont instead of CUSP’s usual venue in AsiaTown.
Go here for tickets.
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