Pig Iron Receives Sensational Reviews for the NYC Run of
CHEKHOV LIZARDBRAIN
at the Ohio Theatre,66 Wooster Street, New York, NY
CLOSES October 19!
“Peculiar, hypnotic and unexpectedly moving… [a] wonderful production … [that] glimmers with a quirky fascination.” —Charles Isherwood, New York Times
“…hilarious and brilliant…Chekhov Lizardbrain is an astounding piece of theatre.” - Broadwayworld.com
“It's everything that great avant-garde theater should be … I don't say this often, but you really must see it right away.” — Curtainup.com
“A moving meditation on loneliness…a
delicate and precise work, one that
balances formal experimentation with moving drama.” - MetroMix
Pig Iron returns to New York with Chekhov Lizardbrain, a fractured comedy inspired by Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters and autistic author Temple Grandin's inquiries into the evolving contortions of her own brain.
A botanist builds a vaudeville theater in his head to better understand the workings of the world around him. The acts he presents careen between trancelike dances and drawing-room comedies, from perception experiments to domestic debacles.
The four award-winning performers - Quinn Bauriedel, Geoff Sobelle, James Sugg and Dito van Reigersberg - ricochet through a mental gymnasium both hilarious and sad.
Directed by Dan Rothenberg
Set Design by Anna Kiraly
Costume Design by Olivera Gajic
Lighting Design by James Clotfelter
Sound Design by Nick Kourtides
Text by Robert Quillen Camp
The development of Chekhov Lizardbrain was funded inpart by the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative, a program of the Philadelphia Center for Arts and Heritage funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts; by the National Endowment for the Arts; and by the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development; and by the Charlotte Cushman Foundation.
