Dangerous Ground's 3! Plays As Part Of Undergroundzero Festival 7/22-7/26

Dangerous Ground presents 3! as part of the undergroundzero festival at Performance Space 122.

3! is a multimedia experiment inspired by Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1979 film The Third Generation. Radical politics, carnival, cops, philosophy, television, guns and terrorists... The performance features criss-crossing cameras, televisions, live feed video, a dj and an ensemble cast of 14 actors. Hybrid forms of performance collide and subvert reality in an attempt to interrogate violence, freedom and civil rights, dramatizing a disturbing world of sexual mayhem, chemical distortions, political manipulations and the exaltation and burden of discovering one's inability to fit into the system.

3! Conceived, designed and directed by Doris Mirescu featuring Zahraa Alzubaidi, Zoe Anastassiou, David White, Jennifer Blair-Bianco, Patrick Flynn, Gayle Greene, Zack Helwa, Anthony Laforgia, Mark Lechner, Katie McConaghy, Florin Penisoara, Joel Repman, Zehra Tas, JC Vasquez. Assistant to the director Patrick Flynn; live cameras Behnood Dadfar, Mark Lechner, Arrien Zinghiniy; dj Zehra Tas; Boom operators , Zahraa Alzubaidi, Cate Duffy.

3! will play as part of the underground zero festival at Performance Space 122 (150 First Avenue at East 9th Street), July 22 & 24 at 9pm, July 23 & 25 at 7pm, July 26 at 5pm Tickets ($15) are available online at www.ps122.org or by calling 212-352-3101.

DORIS MIRESCU (Director) is a Romanian born freelance director and writer. She is also the founder of New York-based theatre company Dangerous Ground. Her most recent productions include multimedia adaptations of John Cassavetes Husbands and Fassbinder's Beware of a Holy Whore, both at the SVA theatre (New York), Bernardo Bertolluci's Last Tango in Paris, Madness of Day by Maurice Blanchot and Neil LaBute's The Distance from Here, all at Tom Noonan's Paradise Factory (New York). She also directed the American Premiere of Paul Solomon's Aching to go Home at the Epic Center Theatre (Kalamazoo, Michigan) and Battle of Black and Dogs by Bernard-Marie Koltès as part of Koltès New York 2003, a festival which she also produced (Ohio Theater, New York). Directing credits include Story of Rats, her adaptation of works by French writer Georges Bataille (Chashama, New York) and the European Premiere of Les Nuits Sans Lune by French playwright Véronique Olmi (Parc de La Villette, Paris). Other New York credits include: Silence of Snow (Soho Rep), Seneca's Trojan Women, Cocteau's The Handsome Hunk and Juliet Montage, a one-woman show based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (all at the Shapiro Theatre). Ms. Mirescu was the assistant director of French director Brigitte Jaques, with whom she worked on Ibsen's Hedda Gabler (La Comédie, Geneva, Switzerland) and Shakespeare's Love's Labor's Lost (Western Michigan University) and assisted Mr. Andrei Serban on Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci at the Grand Théâtre of Geneva. Ms. Mirescu was four times the recipient of Etant Donnés, the French-American Fund for the Performing Arts. She was profiled in the New York Times in the spring of 2003. She holds a Summa Cum Laude Master of Arts in French Literature from Paris-IV Sorbonne as well as an MFA in Theatre Directing from Columbia University. She has taught French Literature, Theatre (performance, history and directing) and Film Analysis, worked as a theatre and film critic for the Swiss magazine Scènes and as a translator/interpreter for Lincoln Center Theater, the Centre Chorégraphique de Montpellier and the French Cultural Services in New York. She is an alumna of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab. She is at present teaching advanced acting and directing at The School of Visual Arts.