Marie Brassard's JIMMY Makes New York Premiere At PS 122 5/27-6/14

Jimmy, a homosexual hairdresser, was born one night inside the dream of an American general in the 1950s. As Jimmy is about to kiss his lover (within the reality of the dream), the general dies, and the two lovers are left in a no man's land, in a state of pure pleasure. After staying suspended in time for fifty years, Jimmy starts to live again, but to his despair, he finds himself trapped inside the dreams of a Montreal actress.

Jimmy, Brassard's first solo play, premiered in June 2001 at the Festival TransAmériques. It has since toured several cities in France, UK, Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Australia, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Belgium, Mexico, The Netherlands and Portugal. The play has been translated and published in German and Italian and produced many times in Germany and Switzerland.

Marie Brassard is an actress, playwright and theatre director. For several years, she collaborated closely with renowned writer and director Robert Lepage, in theatre and in film. She co-wrote and performed in The Dragons' Trilogy, Polygraph, The Seven Streams of the River Ota, and Geometry of Miracles. She also played Lady Macbeth in Lepage's contemporary version of Shakespeare's Macbeth and Ariel in The Tempest.

In 2001, she branched out to create her own solo works, winning acclaim both nationally and internationally. She created her first solo production, Jimmy, within the framework of the Festival TransAmériques, in Montreal. In the meantime, she has produced four other works - The Darkness, Peepshow, The Glass Eye, and The Invisible - in which she has continued to experiment with technology and explore the many ways with which sound can be manipulated in theater. By interlacing voices and music and traversing the planes of reality, she leads us to a world where the boundaries between public and private dissolve and the relationship between human beings and technology becomes intimate. Her unique work has made of her a singular voice in contemporary theatre, receiving widespread acclaim in many cities across America, Europe and Australia. She is the artistic director of the Production Company Infrarouge. This is the first time her work is being presented in New York.

Produced by Infrarouge

Written, directed and performed by Marie Brassard

Co-produced by the Festival TransAmériques

Made possible with support from Conseil des arts et des lettres Québec

Performance Space 122 is New York's ultimate destination for cutting-edge theatre, dance, music, live art and cross-media. Founded in 1979, Performance Space 122 is dedicated to supporting and presenting artists whose work challenges the traditional boundaries of dance, theatre, music, and performance. Committed to exploring innovative form as well as material, P.S. 122 is steadfast in its search for pioneering artists from a diversity of cultures and points of view.

Jimmy runs Wednesday, May 27 through Sunday, June 14 on the following schedule: Wednesday - Saturday at 8:00pm, Sunday at 6:30pm. Additional late shows Friday, June 12 and Saturday, June 13 at 10:00pm. Tickets from $20, $15 (students/seniors), $10 (P.S. 122 members). Tickets may be purchased online at www.ps122.org or via phone at (212) 352-3101. Performance Space 122 is located at 150 First Avenue at East 9th Street, New York, New York 10009. www.ps122.org.

 

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