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2 Tickets to see Grasses of a Thousand Colors: Sunday, November 3rd at 2 PM
- Item Number
- 238
- Estimated Value
- 100 USD
- Sold
- 124 USD to nydwh59
- Number of Bids
- 12 - Bid History
Item Description
GRASSES OF A THOUSAND COLORS
By Wallace Shawn
Directed by André Gregory
Featuring Emily Cass McDonnell, Julie Hagerty, Kristina Mueller, Wallace Shawn, and Jennifer Tilly
Shawn’s most outlandish work to date, this disturbing and anomalously beautiful play touches on almost every imaginable form of sexual expression while spinning a dystopian fantasy about ecological disaster. Grasses won hugely enthusiastic critical praise at its world premiere at the Royal Court Theatre in 2009. From the Royal Court production, Wallace Shawn, Jennifer Tilly and Emily McDonnell reunite for this American Premiere.
Ben, the play’s central character, is a doctor who believes he has solved world hunger when he figures out how to rejigger the metabolisms of animals to tolerate eating their own kind. He ends up ruining the global ecosystem. Yet Grasses is no mere social drama. Instead of exclusively dwelling on social disaster, it also explores the riotous sexual imaginations of Ben, his wife and his lovers. Shawn has said about this taboo-bursting drama that he “decided to take a bet on my subconscious. Isn’t all writing to some extent about trying to get through the layers of propaganda and false interpretations and received ideas and clichés that prevent us from seeing what’s going on? I think that’s the enterprise.”
The Public Theater is located at 425 Lafayette Street, NYC.
Seats are located on the 1st Floor, Row A, Seats 13 & 14
Item Special Note
- Grasses of a Thousand Colors contains explicit descriptions of sexuality which some may find not appropriate for those under 16 years of age.
- After the play there's a moderated discussion with Wallace Shawn, lead actor and playwright, André Gregory, the director and the audience. If anyone's seen the film 'My Dinner with André', they know that these two lifelong friends and collaborators are not to be missed.
- Grasses of A Thousand Colors was first presented by the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre on May 18, 2009.
- This engagement is co-produced with the Public Theater.
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