Dixon Place and the Talking Band present a World Premiere Musical

THE PERIPHERALS

May 10 - 12 & 17 - 19 at 7:30pm,
May 12 & 19 at 9:30pm

Written & Composed by Ellen Maddow
Directed by Ken Rus Schmoll

"Proof, if it's needed, that the work being done on the periphery of NYC's theatre world is almost always the most interesting and stimulating... The Peripherals is so good that I wish it would stay on at Dixon Place much longer than its scheduled three weeks." Martin Denton, nytheatre.com

Sets and Video: Sue Rees
Lights: Alan C. Edwards
Costumes: Olivera Gajic
Production Stage Manager: Lisa McGinn
Additional Videos: David Dawkins and Ruth Marantz
Featuring: Viva Deconcini, Michael Evans, Kim Gambino, Sam Kulik, Ellen Maddow, Kamala Sankaram and Paul Zimet

Tickets: $20 (advance), $25 / $20 stu/sen (door)

Sluice and Suzy Q—well past their youth—perform a subterranean pop music concert accompanied by back up singers and a rock band: The Peripherals. They sing original songs that juxtapose pop music and stories of peripheral people who slip by unnoticed but whose lives are unexpectedly deep, colorful, complex, subtle and unique.

Check out their latest video:

Give a listen to two of their latest recordings:

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Read Martin Denton's article on The Talking Band in the latest Villager.

"One of the most exceptional experimental theater companies in the country." — American Theater

THE TALKING BAND engages in radical collaborations; turns the creative process upside down; makes unpredictable, richly textured music-theater works; explores the meeting point of text and music; employs striking visual imagery; illuminates the extraordinary dimensions of ordinary life; draws inspiration from melodrama, mathematics and magic, puppetry and postal workers, the Kalevala and Kepler, Lewis & Clark and Caravaggio; tours world-wide; creates across cultures; teaches, and is inspired by emerging artists.

THE PERIPHERALS is co-presented by Dixon Place and The Talking Band with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and the City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs. Additional funding for this Talking Band production is provided by the JP Morgan Chase Fund for Small Theaters and the Mental Insight Foundation.

Photo by Darien Bates.