PS 122 Presents Radiohole's WHATEVER, HEAVEN ALLOWS

Radiohole remains the radical and reckless avant garde company that has worked and played in Brooklyn--and the world beyond--for the past ten years. Ever the anarchic artists skillfully bridging the gap between chaos and meaning, Radiohole has loaded this technically imaginative and brightly arranged show with all the cryptic charisma and wild adventure you'd expect.

Whatever, Heaven Allows is a star-spangled American meta-melodrama inspired by film director Douglas Sirk's 1950s potboilers - namely his 1955 film "All That Heaven Allows" - and Milton's epic Paradise Lost. From there, Radiohole picks the points from which to jump, and the show does jump--far. Our heroine is an all-American "Eve" who must save her home from an evil-doer while struggling to find fulfillment in a lasting relationship with a supposedly good man who looks like god.

Whatever, Heaven Allows is as much epic poem as raucous party; the stage becomes a playground of video, text, movement, and objects, a morphing world in which audience minds can play. It evokes, as one of the actors says during the show, the feeling of "falling out of the world a little at a time." But you are brought back, as much by the high-tech prowess as the lo-tech chaos complete with the usual, beer-drinking fun. Radiohole's newest synthesis of cultural flotsam is sure to be bawdy, silly, possibly transcendent, and a touch disturbed.

STARRING: Maggie Hoffman, Eric Dyer, Erin Douglass, Mark Jaynes, Joseph "Wedgewood" Silovsly, and Kourtney Rutherford as The Deer

Radiohole is the recipient of the 2009 Spalding Gray Award. The Spalding Gray Award supports gifted writer/performers who fully realize both aspects of Spalding's legacy. The award is a special commission created in Spalding Gray's honor by Performance Space 122 in New York , UCLA Live (University of California, Los Angeles' public performing arts program),The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.

Spalding Gray AWARD TOUR DATES:
The Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis: January 14-16, 2010
The Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh: February 12-13, 2010
Performance Space 122, New York: February 20 - March 13, 2010
UCLA Live, Los Angeles: October 13-17, 2010

Whatever, Heaven Allows is supported by a Commission Grant from the Jerome Foundation

Performance Space 122 is New York's ultimate destination for cutting-edge theatre, dance, music, live art and multi-media. PS122 is dedicated to supporting and presenting artists who explore innovative form and provocative content and who rigorously challenge the boundaries of contemporary performance; PS122 is committed to a steadfast search for pioneering artists from a diversity of cultures, nations and beliefs. www.ps122.org

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