The Escape Artist April 15, 2011

THE ESCAPE ARTIST
John Kelly: 2010 Ethyl Eichelberger Award Winner

"You realize what you're watching isn't so much an artist inventing himself as inevitably discovering the true self within." -The New York Times

While rehearsing a theater piece based on the life of the Italian Baroque painter Caravaggio, a stressed-out performer has a catastrophic trapeze accident. While stranded on a gurney in a hospital emergency room for 15 hours with a broken neck ('Alice in Wonderland' meets 'The Matrix'), he escapes and finds refuge in the images that flood his mind--the sinners and saints, the prostitutes and gods--that populate Caravaggio's paintings.

Fri, Apr 15 - Sat, Apr 30
Weds-Fri at 8PM
Sat at 8PM and 10PM

Please visit http://www.ps122.org/performances/the_escape_artist.html for show and ticketing information.