In residency December 6–11, 2021; and January 5-14
French playwright and director Pascal Rambert, actors Jim Fletcher and Ismaïl ibn Conner, and writer/translator Nicholas Elliott adapting and rehearsing The Art of Theater, performed by Fletcher, and With My Own Hands, featuring Conner.
A monologue, The Art of Theater (2007), is a manifesto about the nature of dramatic acting addressed, not to the audience, but to the speaker’s dog. With My Own Hands, dating from 1993, when it premiered on a Dijon rooftop, is a protean meditation on the human condition, a soliloquy spoken by a wounded psyche on the brink of suicide. In January 2022, Fletcher and Connor presented four public performances of the plays. A copresentation of PS21 and the Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival.
Read more about the PS21 residency in The New York Times.
The New York Times: In a Double Bill, the Avant-Garde Meets a Very Good Girl
