The Marx Brothers meets Beckett in "Quatre-Vingt-Quatre" Five mustachioed apocalyptic survivors come together to perform a nightly ritual commemorating the discovery of counting and the subsequent destruction of their civilization. Each survivor takes on a role from their vanished civilization and begins the process of learning to count while constantly being sidetracked by animal transformations, aftershocks, and dissension among their ranks.
A timely parable of accumulation and collapse, "Quatre-Vingt-Quatre" is written by poet Evan Kennedy (Pop-up Poetry SFMoMA), directed by Adam Sussman (Armchair Vanya, Sex and Cynicism,) and choreographed by Tim Rubel (Tim Rubel Human Shakes). The cast and director previously collaborated with Evan Kennedy on a related performance that was presented at SFMoMA earlier in the summer.
Evan Kennedy is a poet who has written Shoo-Ins to Ruin (Gold Wake Press) and a few chapbooks, including Us Them Poems (BookThug). He oversees a small press, Dirty Swan Projects out of SF. A video-poem, "Voyage by Donkey," was presented with Zbyszek Bzymek at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church. His work recently appeared alongside Allen Ginsberg's and Lawrence Ferlinghetti's in The Captain's Tower, a poetry anthology commemorating Bob Dylan's 70th birthday.
Adam Sussman is a writer/performer/director from Boston where he worked with the critically acclaimed group "The Gold Dust Orphans" as well as The Theater Offensive, Vox Consort, Company One, and Cornerstone Theater. His short play "Sex and Cynicism" was part of "Come As You Are" a nationally produced evening of queer theater.
Tim Rubel received his MFA in Dance/Experimental Choreography from UC Riverside. He has taught dance at SF State, Mt. San Jacinto, and UC Riverside. His work has been seen on both coasts, including most recently at The Garage in San Francisco. He recently formed Tim Rubel Human Shakes as a vehicle for presenting his original choreographic works.
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