Nuevo Laredo by Gabriella Barnstone & El Gato Teatro

Dixon Place presents a Mondo Cané! Commission

3 2's; or AFAR

by MAC WELLMAN

THURSDAYS - SATURDAYS,
OCTOBER 6-8, 13-15, 20-22, 27-29 at 7:30pm

...everything in "3 2's; or AFAR" eludes, and deliciously so.
--Claudia La Rocca, The New York Times

Mac Wellman's latest comes alive at Dixon Place
--Alexis Soloski, The Village Voice

Tickets: $15 (advance); $18 (door)

PLEASE ARRIVE AT LEAST 15 MINUTES IN ADVANCE:
DUE TO THE INTIMATE NATURE OF THE THEATER,
THERE WILL BE ABSOLUTELY NO LATE SEATING FOR THIS SHOW.

Check out the excellent reviews in The New York Times,The Village Voice, NYTheatre and NYTheatreReview and Stage Voices

Directed by MEGHAN FINN
Produced by LESLIE STRONGWATER
with:
Lighting by BRIAN ALDOUS
Sets by KYLE CHEPULIS
Costumes by NORMANDY SHERWOOD
Music by CÉSAR ALVAREZ
Sound Design by CHRIS GIARMO

featuring:
JAN LESLIE HARDING,* JOCELYN KURITSKY, QUINLAN CORBETT,* SOPHIE NIMMANNIT and CHUJA SEO

Stage Manager: ANNA KROUP
Assistant Director: SARAH PAINTER
Assistant Stage Manager: COURTNEY ULRICH
Choreography: LAURA DIFFENDERFER

3 2's; or AFARSet in a haunted puppet theater (which looks suspiciously like Dixon Place), 3 2's; or AFAR is a meditation on philosopher Martin Heidegger's Dialogue on Language between a Japanese and an Inquirer, the presence of certain suspicious and abandoned footwear, as well as an exploration of the Japanese notion of IKI (coquetry). From the critically-acclaimed playwright and linguistic gymnast, Mac Wellman, comes a new play about what endangers, what is near, and what is nearer than that.

Support Mac and the production by making a donation on Kickstarter! Plus, check out this interview with Mac in The Brooklyn Rail.

MAC WELLMAN's recent work includes The Difficulty of Crossing a Field (with composer David Lang) at Montclair and 1965 UU for performer Paul Lazar, and directed by Stephen Mellor at the Chocolate Factory. He is also working on two plays for chorus: The Invention of Tragedy (Classic Stage Company), and Nine Days Falling commissioned by the Stuck Pigs Company of Melbourne, Australia. He has received numerous honors, including both NEA and Guggenheim Fellowships and received his third Obie for Lifetime Achievement. His third novel, Q's Q, was published by Green Integer, and a volume of stories, A Chronicle of the Madness of Small Worlds, was published by Trip Street Press. His recent books of poetry are Miniature and Strange Elegies, both from Roof Books. He is the Donald I. Fine Professor of Play Writing at Brooklyn College.

3 2'S; OR AFAR is commissioned and first presented by Dixon Place with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs; and with private funds from The Peg Santvoord Foundation..

Graphic by Leah Barish. Photo by Cathryn Lynn.