UNDER THE RADAR 2009 At The Public Theater Begins 1/7

The Public Theater will begin performances for UNDER THE RADAR 2009 on Wednesday, January 7, 2009. This 12-day festival, committed to tracking new theater from across the U.S. and around the world, will run through Sunday, January 18. Tickets are $15 to UNDER THE RADAR shows at The Public and are currently on-sale.

Now in its fifth year, UNDER THE RADAR is an explosively diverse kaleidoscope of new theater-examples from around the world and the U.S. that spotlight artists ranging from emerging talents to masters in the field. Located at The Public Theater as well as partner venues, UNDER THE RADAR offers a crash course in theater that is exciting, independent, and experimental, created by some of the most dynamic artists working today.
Complete Line-Up for UNDER THE RADAR (January 7-18, 2009):

Architecting
January 9-18 (Running Time: 150 minutes, with intermission)

The TEAM and The National Theatre of Scotland
Created by the TEAM
Fri. Jan 9th 8pm | Sat. Jan 10th 1pm | Sun. Jan. 11th 7pm | Wed. Jan 14th 7pm |
Thurs. Jan 15th 7pm | Sat. Jan 17th 7pm | Sun. Jan. 18th 2pm
A musical, time-bending multimedia requiem for modern America that weaves through the country's past, present and future. Athletic physicality crashes against text and hoop skirts in this saga about the reconstruction of nations and selves.

COUNTY OF KINGS: the beautiful struggle
January 7-18 (Running Time: 90 minutes)

The Public Theater in association with American Place Theater
Written and Performed by Lemon Anderson
Developed and Directed by Elise Thoron
Wed. Jan 7th 7pm | Thurs. Jan 8th 3pm | Sat. Jan. 10th 9:30pm | Sun. Jan 11th 3:00pm | Mon. Jan 12th 7pm | Tues. Jan 13th 7pm | Wed. Jan. 14th 2pm | Fri. Jan. 16th 7pm | Sat. Jan 17th 3pm |Sun. Jan 18th 7 pm
Brooklyn based hip-hop artist Lemon Anderson, who won a Tony Award for Def Poetry Jam, spins his version of the coming-of-age memoir with this jarring and poignant performance. From hard-edged drama to urban poetry, COUNTY OF KINGS is a true story of finding passion and purpose in life, against all odds.

First Love
January 9-18 (Running Time: 75 minutes)
By Samuel Beckett
Gare St. Lazare Players Ireland
Performed by Conor Lovett
Directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett
One of Samuel Beckett's early novellas, First Love contains much of his distinctive black humour and a plot that is regarded as a masterpiece of Beckettian perversity. A young man, expelled from the family home, takes refuge on a bench by a canal. There he meets a woman who takes him home, with comically disastrous consequences.
Fri. Jan 9th 4pm| Sat. Jan 10th 4:30pm| Sun. Jan 11th 4:30pm | Mon. Jan 12th 9:30pm | Wed. Jan 14th 7pm | Sat. Jan 17th 9:30pm | Sun. Jan 18th 4pm

Into The Dark Unknown: The Hope Chest
January 8-18 (Running Time: 80 minutes)
Created by Holcombe Waller
Performed by Holcombe Waller and the Healers
Thurs. Jan 8th 5:30pm | Fri. Jan 9th 7pm | Sat. Jan. 10th 2pm | Sun. Jan 11th 7pm | Tues. Jan 13th 7pm | Thurs. Jan. 15th 7pm | Fri. Jan. 16th 7pm | Sat. Jan 17th 7pm | Sun. Jan 18th 7 pm
Folk singer Holcombe Waller presents a music theater experience about moving, storage and, of course, crushes on sexy people. He holds a potent mirror to his generation, tracing an elusive but vitally tenable sense of hope and renewal.

LIGA, 50% reward & 50% punishment
January 7-18 (Running Time: 60 minutes)
Kassys (The Netherlands)
Wed. Jan 7th 8pm | Thurs. Jan 8th 1pm | Thurs. Jan. 8th 8:00pm | Sat. Jan 10th 7pm | Sun. Jan 11th 7pm | Tues. Jan 13th 7pm | Fri. Jan. 16th 7pm | Sat. Jan. 17th 9:30pm | Sun. Jan 18th 7pm

LIGA starts with the end on video. A live "flashback" follows as the actors learn to pretend. Young and easily influenced, their human need to conform makes them susceptible to manipulation.

Sight is the sense that dying people tend to lose first
January 8-11 (Running Time: 60 minutes)
Written and directed by Tim Etchells (UK)
Performed by Jim Fletcher
Thurs. Jan 8th 3pm | Sat. Jan 10th 7pm | Sun. Jan. 11th 1:30pm
Sight is the sense... is a long, free-associating monologue that tumbles from topic to topic to create a vast failing explanation of the world. Comical in its apparent naiveté and preposterously encyclopedic in scope, it exposes the absurdity and horror of consciousness as it tries and fails to define everything that it encounters.

the break/s: a mixtape for stage
January 8-17 (Running time: 75 minutes)
Marc Bamuthi Joseph for The Living Word Project
Directed by Michael John Garcés
Produced by MAPP International Productions
Thurs. Jan 8th 5:30-pm | Sat. Jan 10th 9:30pm | Sun. Jan.11th 3:30pm | Wed. Jan. 14th 9:30pm | Thurs. Jan 15th 7pm | Fri. Jan 16th 9:30pm | Sat. Jan 17th 7pm
A multimedia choreographed excursion across planet hip-hop, the break/s dramatically recreates the living history of the hip-hop generation through the personal narrative of poet Marc Bamuthi Joseph.

Transition
January 7-17 (Running Time: 60 minutes)
Performed by Reggie Watts
Created by Reggie Watts and Tommy Smith
Directed by Tommy Smith
Wed. Jan 7th 8pm | Thurs. Jan 8th 8pm | Fri. Jan. 9th 9:30pm | Sat. Jan 10th 9:30pm | Sun. Jan 11th 9:30pm | Mon. Jan 12th 7pm | Wed. Jan. 14th 9:30pm | Thurs. Jan. 15th 9:30pm | Fri. Jan 16th 9:30pm | Sat. Jan. 17th 2pm
Reality is boring. Drugs are harmful. How does one escape? Reggie Watts knows. Take a trip with Transition, a cutting-edge comedic explosion of stereophonic effects and multimedia interactions.

Woyzeck
January 9-15 (Running Time: 70 minutes)
Sadari Movement Laboratory in association with AsiaNow (Korea)
Fri. Jan 9th 8pm | Sat. Jan 10th 3pm | Sun. Jan. 11th 9:30pm | Mon. Jan 12th 7pm | Wed. Jan 14th 7pm | Thurs. Jan 15th 9:30pm
In this gripping, stripped-down version from Korea, wooden chairs are used as a changeable metaphor, while Astor Piazzolla's tango music pulses throughout, revealing the characters' emotional states with shattering clarity and force. Performed in Korean with English supertitles.

UNDER THE RADAR 2009 PARTNER VENUES:
ArKtype presents
World/Inferno Friendship Society's
Addicted to Bad Ideas: Peter Lorre's 20th Century
One Night Only!
Co-Conceived and Directed by Jay Scheib
Presented in association with Bowery Presents
Webster Hall, 125 East 11th Street (Between 3rd and 4th Avenues)
$20 Tickets: ticketmaster.com or walk-up at Mercury Lounge (217 E. Houston St.) or Music Hall of Williamsburg (66 N. 6th St.) Box Offices. $16 (code: LORRE) up to day of show
Fri. Jan 9th 9:30pm

An unprecedented fusion of one of today's best live punk acts with real time performance media, Addicted To Bad Ideas is a furious song cycle dedicated to 20th century movie star, archetype of alienation, Peter Lorre.

Call Cutta In A Box
January 7-18 (Running Time: 50 minutes)
An intercontinental phone play by Rimini Protokoll (Haug/Kaegi/Wetzel)
Presented by Goethe-Institut New York
Goethe Institut New York, 1014 Fifth Ave (Between 82nd and 83rd St.)
$15 Tickets: 212-439-8700

Presented daily from Wed 1/7 through Sun 1/18 between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m.

You enter an unknown office and the phone rings. The person on the phone is a call center agent in Calcutta, India. Offering you an exclusive performance - a story unfolds in which Sagnik and his colleagues, but above all you and your city are the actors, the audience, the setting, and the performance.

England
Jan 8-Jan 18 (Running Time: 50 minutes)
By Tim Crouch (UK)
Chelsea Art Museum 556 West 22nd Street
$15 Tickets: 212.255.0719
Thurs. Jan 8th 6:30 pm and 8 pm | Fri. Jan 9th 2 pm | Sat. Jan. 10th 2 pm and 4 pm | Thurs. Jan 15th 6:30 pm and 8 pm | Fri. Jan 16th 6:30pm and 8 pm | Sat. Jan 17th 2 pm and 4 pm
Two guides in a gallery. Two lovers with a lifestyle to maintain. Two hearts beating four thousand miles apart. A moving evocation of the relative values we place on precious things.
Pataphysics Penyeach: Summa Dramatica/Porco Morto
Jan 8 - Jan 18 (Running Times: 40 minutes, Summa; 45 minutes, Porco)

Mabou Mines
Written and Directed by Lee Breuer
Mabou Mines Studio 150 First Avenue (Corner of 9th Street)
$25 for both, or $15 each: theatermania.com, 212-352-3101 or 866-811-4111
Summa:
Thurs. Jan 8th 7:30pm | Fri. Jan 9th 7:30pm | Sat. Jan. 10th 7:30pm | Sun. Jan 11th 3pm | Thurs. Jan 15th 7:30pm | Fri. Jan. 16th 7:30pm | Sat. Jan 17th 7:30pm| Sun. Jan 18th 3pm
Porco:
Thurs. Jan 8th 9pm | Fri. Jan 9th 9pm | Sat. Jan. 10th 9pm | Sun. Jan 11th 4:30pm | Thurs. Jan 15th 9pm | Fri. Jan. 16th 9pm | Sat. Jan 17th 9pm| Sun. Jan 18th 4:30pm
Lee Breuer's new "Pataphysical" one acts: Summa Dramatica -a spiritual acting lesson starring Ruth Maleczech and Porco Morto -a memorial for an avant-garde "pig" -starring Greg Mehrten.

Removable Parts
January 7-11 (Running Time: 60 minutes)
Created by Corey Dargel
Performed by Corey Dargel and Kathleen Supove
Directed by Emma Griffin
With dances by Yvan Greenberg and production design by Raquel Davis
HERE Arts Center (145 6th Ave., between Spring and Broome)
$20 Tickets: here.org or 212-352-3101
Wed. Jan 7th 7pm | Thurs. Jan 8th 7pm | Fri. Jan. 9th 7pm | Sat. Jan 10th 7pm and 10pm| Sun. Jan 11th 1pm and 5pm
A theatrical series of love songs about voluntary amputation in which the unrequited lover - whose heart is broken - begins to question the usefulness of his other body parts.

Siren
January 8-11 (Running time: 40 minutes)
By Ray Lee
Performed by Ray Lee and Harry Dawes
HERE Arts Center (145 6th Ave., between Spring and Broome)
$20 Tickets: here.org or 212-352-3101
Thurs. Jan 8th 6pm & 8:30pm| Fri. Jan 9th 4pm, 6pm & 8:30pm | Sat. Jan. 10th, 4pm, 6pm & 8:30pm | Sun. Jan 11th 2pm, 4pm & 6pm
Siren is a whirling, spinning spectacle of mechanical movement, electronic sound and light by award winning artist, composer and performer Ray Lee.

The Crumb Trail
January 7-17(Running time: 1 hour and 40 minutes)
Written by Gina Moxley & directed by Gavin Quinn
Presented by Pan Pan Theatre (Ireland)
Performance Space 122 (150 First Avenue at 9th Street)
$15 (Code:UTR) Tickets: ps122.org or 212-352-3101

Wed. Jan 7th 6:30pm | Thurs. Jan 8th 10:30pm | Fri. Jan. 9th 2:30pm | Sun. Jan 11th 7pm | Mon. Jan 12th 3:30pm |Thurs. Jan 15th 8pm | Fri. Jan. 16th 8pm | Sat. Jan 17th 8pm & 11pm

Where did being good ever get anyone? A sharp, surprisingly blunt new show exploring the death of the Fairy Tale from this endlessly inventive Irish company.

$15 single tickets for UNDER THE RADAR shows at The Public Theater are on-sale now at The Public Theater box office, 425 Lafayette Street; on-line at www.publictheater.org or by phone at 212-967-7555. Seating for all UTR shows at The Public is general admission. Seats are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Box office hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 1:00 pm to 7:30 pm, and Sunday and Monday from 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm.

For more information, visit www.publictheater.org