Presented as part of ALIEN AND ORDINARY: A POETS THEATER SYMPOSIUM, curated by Ethan Philbrick
hosted by Morgan Bassichis
featuring Jess Barbagallo, Mónica de la Torre, Nazareth Hassan, Stephen Ira, Kite, The Illustrious Pearl, Fargo Nissim Tbakhi, and Tony Torn
ALIEN AND ORDINARY opens with a Poets Theater Variety Show hosted by the performance artist Morgan Bassichis and featuring performances and readings from Jess Barbagallo, Nazareth Hassan, Stephen Ira, Kite, The Illustrious Pearl, Fargo Nissim Tbakhi, and Tony Torn. While variety shows have been a central genre of theatrical performance since the vaudeville era, our Poets Theater Variety Show aims to bring forth the broader etymological resonance of variety: an absence of monotony, a change of fortunes, going astray, altering, transforming, bending, all things various and varying.
We hope you can join us at 7:30pm for a reception before the event!
Tickets to POETS THEATER VARIETY SHOW are $15 in advance, or $20 at the door. Attendees can also purchase a pass to all five events of ALIEN AND ORDINARY: A POETS THEATER SYMPOSIUM for $40.
This event will also be livestreamed for free on The Poetry Project's YouTube channel.
Alien and Ordinary: A Poets Theater Symposium is generously supported and made possible by funding from the Axe-Houghton Foundation.