[Sign Felt] Opera in the Void

Presented by William Electric Black at Poetry Electric, La Mama NYC

An improvisational bildungsroman for an idiot exploring madness, despair, fugues states, word plays, the associative logic of the loony, language falling apart, quarter life crisis, the abyss, and the (de)construction of identity as told by a young Jewish girl who wants to be a theatre artist pretending to be a young German boy who wants to be a theatre artist. Young Wilhelm is beginning to lose faith in himself and the possibility that art can offer anything to a world as damaged as ours. 

Will this sad clown ever figure anything out?

PERFORMER/CREATOR: Alexandra Tatarsky
DIRECTOR: Eva Steinmetz
DRAMATURG: Basie Allen

This project was made possible, in part, through The Movement Research Artist-in-Residence Program, funded, in part, by the Jerome Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Harkness Foundation for Dance, the Davis/Dauray Family Fund, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.