The Village, A Disco Daydream Ends 3rd Run at Dixon Place
A meta musical comedy with dancing, disco and Go-Go boys
Set in New York City in 1979, and loosely based on Our Town (sorry Thornton), The Village centers around Trade, a hustler living in “Old George’s” apartment, who brings home his latest trick, Steve, an earnest NYU student, as a crazy collage of characters come by to drink, drug, flirt, dream and dish about love, life, death and taxis, and of course break out into daring disco dance numbers. The Village is a fun funny fete filled with high jinx, low kinks, soft core porn and rock hard abs.
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Photo Credit: 1-3 Eric McNatt, 4 Robin Carrigan
Photo Credit: Peter Yesley
REVIEWS
NITELIFE EXCHANGE | “A unique piece, a vivid combination of nostalgia, comedy, dance, period music—and Thornton Wilder. At times highly sophisticated, at other times seemingly amateur. At times filled with sentimental longing for a past culture, at other times a contemptuous commentary on that time. At times a broad farce, at other times verging on the tragic.”
BOY CULTURE | “While as broadly funny as expected, this 60-minute show slowly reveals itself to have wit, fangs, a big heart and impressively fresh takes on nostalgia and death. But again, the important part is: It’s funny.”
GAY CITY NEWS | “A witty, charmingly erratic, dance-filled romp that borrows liberally from ‘Our Town’.”
THEATERMANIA | “In her gleeful metatheatricality, Burns owes much to Bertolt Brecht and Thornton Wilder, and under the sharp direction of Adam Pivirotto, The Village is a lot more fun to watch than anything those two ever wrote.”
DC THEATER ARTS | “Directed by Adam Pivirotto with an eye on the over-the-top humor and hilarious hedonism, a vivacious cast embodies the array of spirited archetypes that populated Greenwich Village in the day.”
THE QUEER REVIEW | The Village! is a continually impressive piece of ensemble storytelling…A joyous, life-affirming hymn to Greenwich Village, a tribute to the far too many we lost too soon along the way, and a reminder to make the most of every New York minute.
Nora Burns (playwright) is a writer, performer, comedian, actress, archivist and generally social being who has lived in New York City since 1979. She is a founding member of the comedy groups Unitard and the Nellie Olesons. Her solo show David’s Friend had an extended run at LaMama Theater where it received rave reviews.
Adam Pivirotto (director) is a theater/filmmaker based in NYC. He was director/producer of drag performer Cleo Berlin’s cabaret series, presented at Pangea NYC through TWEED Theaterworks. His short films have been screened at Richmond International Film Fest, Genreblast Film Fest, NYC Poetry Festival, LA Cinefest, Sixth Sense Film Festival, Filmshortage, and Shondaland.com. His one act This Place showed at Dixon Place HOT Festival. He has been a featured director for the Visible Poetry Project and completed an arts/education fellowship at NYU Abu Dhabi.
Robin Carrigan (Choreographer) NYC choreography includes “Club Dada – Life in Hard Times”, “trick” feature film, “Hater”, “Bedbugs!!!”, “I Could Say More”,”Two Spoons”, “1966”, “Jesus and Mandy” (co-written with Eric Bernat), “Blood Orgy of the Carnival Queens!!!” (co-written with Jim Fall), “Girls Town” (writer), “Ronnie Spector Christmas Spectacular”, and drag performer “Love, Connie”. BFA from NYU-TSOA.