Peculiar Works and Other Revivals

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BELOW: PECULIAR WORKS’ wonderful OOB Street Shows, 2006/7

and some other OOB-revival events

Catherine Porter and Nick Matthews in a scene from Tom Eyen’s “Why Hanna’s Shirt Won’t Stay Down,” directed by Mark Finley. Part of Peculiar Works Project’s “OFF Stage: the East Village Fragments,” the production was an exciting site-specific multi-venue production that travelled along historic Greenwich Village streets featuring a company of over 50 actors, 14 directors, visiting a dozen theatrical landmarks. Photo by: Jim Baldassare © 2007.

DORIC WILSON’s And He Made a Her, done at the Caffe Cino in 1961. Right photo: Barry Rowell.

CLARIS NELSON’s The Rue Garden (Cino 1962). Photo: Bonnie Young.

PAUL FOSTER’s The Recluse (Rehearsed for Cino 1963?, but played at La Mama). Photos: Barry Rowell

My Camera Obscura (Cino 1966), photo: Jim Baldassare.

RUTH LANDSHAFF YORCK’s “Lullaby for a Dying Man,” Caffe Cino 1964. Photo: Jim Baldassare

BOB HEIDE’s The Bed (Cino 1965). Photo: Bonnie Young.

GEORGE HAIMSOHN, ROBIN MILLER, & JIM WISE’s Dames at Sea (Cino 1966). Photo: Barry Rowell.

DIANE DIPRIMA’s Monuments, the last play performed at the Caffe Cino (1968), photo Bonnie Young.

A danced tribute to JOE CINO’s lover, JOHNNY TORREY, ended touchingly with LANFORD WILSON’s Lady Bright (who had just done a segment about loneliness and lovely lads) rushing to cloak the kneeling youth with a cloth. The dance was done to Ravel’s “Bolero,” which was the music Johnny used to strip to after hours at the Cino, and the music Joe himself used for his last dance appearance at Judson Church shortly before he died.

Some of the authors involved in Peculiar Works’ spectacles: Top: Ilsa Gilbert, Susan Yankowitz, WILLIAM M. HOFFMAN, LARRY LOONIN, Rosalyn Drexler. Bottom: Michael McGrinder, DORIC WILSON, MICHAEL LOCASCIO, BOB DAHDAH, PAUL FOSTER, Tom Walker.

LANFORD WILSON’s Sex Is Between Two People (Cino 1965), in Boston 2006.

WILLIAM M. HOFFMAN’s Goodnight, I Love You (Caffe Cino 1965), La Mama E.T.C. 2008!!!! GEORGE BIRIMISA’s Daddy Violet (Cino 1967), in Boston, 2006! Photo by Eric Antoniou for The Boston Conservatory.

JEAN-CLAUDE VAN ITALLIE’s Interview (Cino at La Mama 1965), a Peculiar Works playreading project, April, 2007, photo Barry Rowell.

RUTH YORCK’s Lullaby for a Dying Man (Cino 1964), a Peculiar Works playreading project, April, 2007, photo Barry Rowell.

BOB HEIDE’s “The Bed” at Yale (!!!) 2009.
Photos copyrighted by Clayon Patterson 2009.

John Rowan in in LANFORD WILSON’s “The Madness of Lady Bright” at Pegasus Theatre Company in Guerneville, California, 2013.

Conor O’Shaughnessy, Rachel Custer, and John Rowan in in LANFORD WILSON’s “The Madness of Lady Bright” at Pegasus Theatre Company in Guerneville, California 2013.