“Intriguingly strange, fragmented elegy” – New York Times

March 4–8, 10, 13–17, 20–21 at 7:00 PM
March 22–23 at 3:00 PM
The Tank
312 W 36th St., New York, NY 10018
Tickets

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Created by The Goat Exchange
With original text by Eliya Smith
Directed by Chloe Claudel & Mitchell Polonsky

Loosely inspired by Tadeusz Kantor’s masterpiece The Dead Class and assembled from original text, recycled memories, family secrets, old photos, live violin score, and verbatim fragments of rediscovered memoirs and voicemails, DEADCLASS, OHIO is a seance for the living and a love song for the dead.

The show is about Mitchell Polonsky’s grandparents and has original text by ELIYA SMITH and a live score by SASHA YAKUB.

Caridad Svich, the editor of the Contemporary Theatre Review, described it like this:
“A memory that plays in the recesses of history – fresh and surprising, startling and moving. A story about family stories and what gets left behind. A sly piece of theatre about how we construct our past and present when all is undone.”

Join us after the opening on March 4 for a champagne toast. Or you can book for March 5, when we’ll be having a talkback with Jonathan Brent, director of the YIVO Institute, with complimentary wine after the show.

The cast:
PETE SIMPSON
CHLOE CLAUDEL
MARCUS AMAGLO
JULIANA SASS
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JIM FLETCHER and LUKE BOSCO

you’re never home
how are you?
i hope you’re staying far away from places

if anybody knows what’s safe
what isn’t safe
we had a little scary ice storm
i wonder if you had any of it
it felt like someone was breaking windows
but no windows were broken
thank god
it was an ice storm

hello?

oh maybe she hung up?

hello?

About The Goat Exchange: THE GOAT EXCHANGE is an interdisciplinary performance company founded in 2016. We bring together artists from across disciplines to create live art, film, public installation, and experimental theater. We enjoy working with old films, new plays, verbatim transcripts, classic texts, and ladybugs. Our work is interdisciplinary and collaborative, incorporating wide-ranging influences from opera, dance, literature, classic cinema, vaudeville, slapstick, pop-culture, and public art. We have developed over 20 original productions in traditional theaters and a range of site-specific venues, from a museum gallery to a swimming pool to a football stadium to a kitchen sponge.

Photo from the archive: Paul Lazar, Marcus Amaglo, Sasha Yakub, Juliana Sass, Chloe Claudel, and Luke Bosco in DEADCLASS, OHIO at the Ice Factory Festival