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Get Your Ass In the Water and Swim Like Me

Run Time:
1 hr
Closing: October 08, 2022

Get Your Ass In the Water and Swim Like Me - 2022 Off-Broadway History , Info & More

The Performing Garage
33 Wooster Street, New York City New York City

See the newest collaboration between The Wooster Group and Eric Berryman: Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me. This original work for the theater explores a distinctive genre of Black American storytelling called Toasts, via a record album of the same name recorded and edited by folklorist Bruce Jackson (LP cover below).

The Wooster Group/Berryman collaboration features performances by Eric Berryman and drummer Jharis Yokley. Kate Valk directs. The production design is by Elizabeth LeCompte, with sound design by Eric Sluyter and video design by Irfan Brkovic.


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The Wooster Group to Present GET YOUR ASS IN THE WATER AND SWIM LIKE ME in September
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Aug 1, 2022


The Wooster Group will present their newest production, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, an original work for theater that explores a distinctive genre of Black American storytelling called Toasts, September 16-October 8, 2022, at the Group’s home, The Performing Garage, in New York City. 

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