All tickets: $15 (La MaMa Members = $10)

Called “a hilarious, finely tuned absurdist” (Theatre Jones) and “outrageous and profane” (NYTimes), Alex Tatarsky makes performances in the uncomfortable in-between zone of comedy, performance art, dance-theater, and deluded rant—sometimes with songs. Playing with perceptions of language and narrative structure, their performances are highly responsive to venue and audience. Careening between tightly scripted sequences and wildly unhinged experiments, Tatarsky will address some of their ongoing obsessions: the plight of garden gnomes, the songs of harpies, and a sense of despair and foreboding after killing – through benign neglect followed by overzealous watering – their favorite houseplant: a species known as the Wandering Jew.

They are delighted to be sharing the evening with their friend, the genius freak River L. Ramirez.

Once, Tatarsky acquired a large painting River had made of a sad and scary clown named Flowers. Tatarsky brought this painting on the Chinatown bus to Philadelphia and then to a local Bank of America branch that was on their way home. Upon seeing the portrait of Flowers the Clown, the bank teller promptly declared that he’d made the wrong choices in life and that he actually wanted to be a social worker. This is what art does. It changes lives. Flowers may or may not feature in this evening.

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