The Wooster Group

<p>Elizabeth LeCompte and Kate Valk of The Wooster Group speak with Peter Scott of Carriage Trade Gallery.</p> <p>The exhibition mentioned in this episode, <em>The Wooster Group</em> at Carriage Trade Gallery, is on view in New York through February 16, 2020. The exhibition features archival material, props, and performance documentation emphasizing the group’s significant contribution to both performative and visual culture over the last four and a half decades.</p> <p>The production mentioned, <em>A PINK CHAIR (in place of a fake antique)</em> was at NYU Skirball Center for Performing Arts through February 2, 2020. <em>A PINK CHAIR (In Place of a Fake Antique)</em> references one of Polish stage director Tadeusz Kantor’s (1915–90) manifestos. It describes a theater that gives the simplest, everyday objects—chairs—hallucinatory power to summon up forgotten history and memory.</p>

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