2 STORIES THAT END IN SUICIDE
Zora Space, The Brick's Iranian Theater Festival, and HERE Arts Center, November 2010, March and September 2011
2 Stories uses puppets, animation, and live actors to explore the effect of censorship on identity. Drawing from the work of Cesare Pavese and Sadegh Hedayat, two authors with contemporaneous suicides, along with research on contemporary youth culture in Iran, Piehole’s 2 Stories examines the inadequacy of cultural representations, and the impossibility of emotional expression in a climate of repression.
After a workshop at Zora Space in November 2010, and at The Brick Theater in March 2011, as part of the Iranian Theater Festival, this piece culminated in a run at HERE Arts Center as part of their HEREstay program in September 2011. 2 Stories received a Space Grant from Brooklyn Arts Exchange, a grant from the Puppeteers of America, and is sponsored by Artspire, a program of NYFA. 2 Stories was co-directed by Tara Ahmadinejad and Elliot B. Quick and co-created by Piehole. This was the inaugural production of our newest member Alexandra Panzer, and featured the work of Piehole affiliates: Jessie Hopkins, Alexandra Lubensky, Vlada Kaganovskaya, Anna Carhart, Josie Holtzman, Rachael Quimby, Sara Wentworth, Gocha Tsinadze and Ben Cohen. Photos by Emily Friend Roberts.
After a workshop at Zora Space in November 2010, and at The Brick Theater in March 2011, as part of the Iranian Theater Festival, this piece culminated in a run at HERE Arts Center as part of their HEREstay program in September 2011. 2 Stories received a Space Grant from Brooklyn Arts Exchange, a grant from the Puppeteers of America, and is sponsored by Artspire, a program of NYFA. 2 Stories was co-directed by Tara Ahmadinejad and Elliot B. Quick and co-created by Piehole. This was the inaugural production of our newest member Alexandra Panzer, and featured the work of Piehole affiliates: Jessie Hopkins, Alexandra Lubensky, Vlada Kaganovskaya, Anna Carhart, Josie Holtzman, Rachael Quimby, Sara Wentworth, Gocha Tsinadze and Ben Cohen. Photos by Emily Friend Roberts.
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Photographs by Lee Friend Roberts