Montgomery Park, Or Opulence

OK, I lied -- I am going to make time see a small handful of can't-miss shows this fall. And this is one of them. If you haven't experienced my co-host's work, you owe it to yourself to go to this. It will be brilliant and weird. Info and tickets here.

Also, how awesome is it that it was supported by the NYC Department of Sanitation?

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Announcing Montgomery Park, or Opulence

A new play by Karinne Keithley

An immersive, radiant, and paranormal psychic health experience. With songs.

SEPT. 18-20, 2009 at HERE Arts Center

Montgomery Park, Opulence charts the rise of terrible energy. Weaving together anachronistic storytelling with superabundant and ill-behaved sentences, in an environment of immersive video and sound, Montgomery Park embeds questions of mind in a spooky trespass between conscious minds and conscious buildings.

Written and directed by Karinne Keithley
Performed by David Brooks, Karinne Keithley, and Katy Pyle
Video appearance by Heidi Schreck
Choregraphy by Sara Smith
Sound and video by Karinne Keithley with additional video by Amber Reed
Lighting by Zack Brown
Stage managing and mind-reading by Lacy Post


Part of the Autumn Artist Lodge at
HERE Arts Center
145 6th Ave.
(Enter on Dominick, 1 Block South of Spring)

Performances are at 7PM Friday – Sunday, Sept. 18 – 20,
and at 2PM on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 19 – 20.


Tickets are $15 and can be purchased by visiting www.here.org or by calling 212-352-3101. Limited seating so sign up now.


Please come! And please forward the invite!

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"wonderfully uncategorizable" ; "Karinne Keithley’s affecting video. . . featured her singular, delicate voice and a gorgeous, miniature Neverland. . ."
- Claudia La Rocco, The New York Times

"Keithley clearly follows a skewed muse. Where exactly she is going is unmapped. Following her is often captivating, sometimes bewildering, always unusual. When she knows the way, she realizes the possibility of enchantment."
- Chris Dohse, Dance Insider

"Her writing is vital and unnerving, a lesson in the varieties of awareness the human animal can achieve."
- Gregory Pardlo, real live poet


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This production is being presented through HERE’s Autumn Artist Lodge, which provides artists with subsidized space and equipment, as well as technical and administrative support.

Montgomery Park was written, in part, during a residency at the MacDowell Colony.

This production has been put together with materials from Materials for the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs/NYC Department of Sanitation/NYC Department of Education.