Great avant-garde theater
Richard Foreman, variously called the grandfather, godfather, and elder statesman of avant-garde theater, has a new play at The Public called “Old-Fashioned Prostitutes (A True Romance).” It was very well reviewed, with the caveat that Foreman productions are unlikely to please a broad audience. At the show one can expect a very memorable experience filled with stark visuals, nonsensical dialogue, and an absence of plot.
Great avant-garde theater can be beautiful and moving but admittedly is not for everyone.
The Public Theater
425 Lafayette St
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New York Post
Richard Foreman’s ‘Old-Fashioned Prostitutes’ is yet another incomprehensible brain teaser
New York Times
In the Scrim of Memory, Reality Itself
TimeOut New York
Settling in at Richard Foreman’s Old-Fashioned Prostitutes (A True Romance) is like stepping into the Ontological Theater at St. Mark’s Church circa 1994.