LA PARTY Presented at PS122 7/9-11

LA Party plays Wednesday, July 7 through Sunday, July 11 at PS122, with performances July 7, 8, 9, 11 at 7:30pm, and July 10 at 9:30pm.

A fanatical vegan slides off the wagon one night, falling headfirst into a wild L.A. bender. The story written and spoken by David Barlow collides with live video in which six performers produce a compelling composite human being. A charming soup-çon from director Phil Soltanoff, whose collaborations with France's CIE 111 have produced playful meldings of theatre, visual art, dance and new cirque, LA Party has been an audience favorite at this past season's Under The Radar Festival, Fusebox Festival, and Prelude Festival. The show also appeared at The Collapsable Hole, and is now presented as part of the 2010 undergroundzero Festival at PS122.

LA Party is performed by David Barlow, Ilan Bachrach, Stephen Brady, Kristine Oakes, Claire Siebers and Phil Soltanoff.

"It is a really fantastic, hilarious, entertaining, and surreal freakout of a show...and the storytelling is riveting. Not to mention hilarious...Go see this show!!" - Culturebot.org

Director Phil Soltanoff is a New York-based theatre artist. His most recent work i/o, created in collaboration with sound artist Joe Diebes, fuses sound installation, physical theatre, and opera. i/o premiered at Theatre Garonne in November 2008. Original and site-specific creations include to whom it may concern (BITEF-31), Strange Attractors (Mass MoCA), five movements for people and sound, TIME/PIECE, wrench, Experimental Actions (Mass MoCA), Peter Handke?s The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other and LEMNATION (Mass MoCA). In 1999, Soltanoff teamed with performing artist Hanne Tierney to create five myles, an alternative performance/exhibition space in Brooklyn. They received an OBIE Award in 2000. Since 2002, Soltanoff has created two works in collaboration with Aurelien Bory and CIE111 (Toulouse, France). Their two collaborations, PLAN B and MORE OR LESS, INFINITY have performed around the world including Theatre Garonne (Toulouse), TNT (Toulouse), Kampnagel (Hamburg), Eurokaz Festival (Zagreb), Trafo (Budapest), Vidy Theatre (Lausanne), Centro Belem (Lisbon), Pina Bausch?s NRW International Dance Festival (Dusseldorf), Maison de la Danse (Lyon), Queen Elizabeth Hall (London), Patra Vadi (Bangkok), Theatre de la Ville (Paris), BITEF-42 (Belgrade) and the New Victory Theatre (NYC) among others. LA Party has appeared at the Prelude Festival, Under The Radar Festival, Fusebox Festival, and The Collapsable Hole. Upcoming projects include a commission to create an original work for The Center Theatre Group in LA, a new site-specific performance for SIGHTLINES, and a new collaboration with Joe Diebes and Mac Wellman. Mr. Soltanoff was nominated for a Moliere Award in 2007. His work is dedicated in loving memory to his wife Stephanie Mnookin.

David Barlow has written other true-life stories to be performed. As an actor, his collaborations with Phil Soltanoff include: i/o (Theatre Garonne), Experimental Actions (Mass MoCA), and to whom it may concern (BITEF-31). Off-Broadway: Rinde Eckert's Horizon (New York Theater Workshop), Scenes From An Execution (Potomac Theater Project), Mycenaean (BAM), Romola and Nijinski (Primary Stages); Oroonoko, Andorra and Saved (Theater For A New Audience), The Seagull (Roundtable Ensemble), and Smashing (The Play Company). Regional/International: King Lear (Kansas City Rep), On The Jump (Arena Stage), This Is Our Youth (Philadelphia Theater Co.), Bauern Theater (with dir. David Levine in Germany) and Babel (Avignon International Theater Festival). TV: "Without A Trace," "Third Watch," "All My Children." Barlow earned his MFA at NYU.

Ilan Bachrach is a performer and visual artist from New York City. Recent credits include: The National Theater of the United States of America's CHAUTAUQUA! (PS122, Walker Art Center, The Public), The Paper Industry Sine Wave Goodbye (Ontological), Collapsable Giraffe's The Last Crash (Hole), NTUSA?s Don Juan (Chocolate Factory), video appearances in The Radiohole?s Whatever, Heaven Allows (WHA?!), and various workshops and readings of the playwright Normandy Sherwood

Stephen Brady plies his trade as a lighting designer for the event world. Notable clients include Victoria Beckham, Phillip Lim, Gillette, Sobe and Bloomberg. LA Party marks another great piece in the continued collaborations with Phil Soltanoff, which includes the Obie winning The Hour We Knew Nothing Of Each Other. Check him out at SteveBradyLD.com

Kristine Oakes recently performed at La Mama in Anything To Declare, an original work she conceived about the immigrant experience in America. Other credits include Marilyn 5 Agosto and The Trojan Women at Gruppo Teatro Colli in Bologna, Italy.

Claire Siebers' New York credits include: Gormanzee & Other Stories (anna&meredith), two seasons of EST/Youngblood?s Asking For Trouble, The Greatest Night of Our Lives (EST/Youngblood), Deb Margolin's Time Is The Mercy of Eternity (West End Theatre) with Lisa Kron, developmental readings with Israel Horowitz at Columbia University, Sam Forman's Schmoozy Togetherness (Williamstown Theatre Festival, dir. Johanna McKeon). Siebers attended Yale University.

LA Party plays July 7, 8, 9, 11 at 7:30 PM and July 10 at 9:30 PM. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased online at: http://www.ps122.org or by calling 212-352-3101, or at the PS122 Box Office. PS122 is located at 150 1st Avenue at E. 9th St. 

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