Nancy Pearl Highlighted Off-Off-Broadway
Daughter Katie has developed a dance-theater show based on life with her action-figure mom
-- Library Journal, 12/02/2009
If you don’t want to miss rock star librarian Nancy Pearl in any of her various media formats—book, radio show, television—there’s a new one to track: “Terrible Things.” This dance theater performance based on the life of Pearl’s daughter features “a T-R-I-P inside the many lives of Katie Pearl [right] and her action-figure literary mom,” complemented by dancers, Jiu Jitsu wrestlers, and 1000 marshmallows. The show is set to debut December 4 at Performance Space 122 in New York City and will run through December 20.
Nancy Pearl has helped raise money for the production, having hosted a “Book Lust” conversation at a fundraiser brunch.
The show is the latest collaboration between the younger Pearl and Lisa D’Amour; the two have been working together since 1997 developing new works. The pair initially bonded over a shared interest in site-specific performance, resulting in a 14-hour “installation” performed in an Austin, TX, tree grove for the benefit of commuters on a nearby boulevard. They’ve since gone on to perform in New Orleans, Minneapolis, and New York City, where they won a 2003 Village Voice OBIE Award for “Nita & Zita,” about two former vaudeville showgirls. See pearldamour.com.
The producers have offered a discount code for librarians:
Discounted tickets* for Librarians:
$15 Single tickets with code BOOK15
2-for-1 tickets with code BOOK241
Discount codes may be entered online at http://www.ps122.org/performances/terrible_things.html
By phone at 212-352-3101
Or in person at the Box Office in Performance Space 122 (150 1st Ave at E. 9th St)
*Restrictions apply - May be discontinued at any time, may not be applied to past sales or combined with other offers.
