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New York City Players presents Richard Maxwell: Neutral Hero

PLEASE NOTE performances originally scheduled for November 1–3 have been rescheduled for November 30 - December 1st . We are currently moving existing customers with reservations to the new dates. All remaining tickets will be onsale to the general public on Wednesday, November 21st at 12noon.

Richard Maxwell has assembled twelve people to tell a story. The story concerns a young man searching for his father in the American landscape. Beneath gas stations and drive-ins, family routines, work schedules, small-town dreams and desires, Neutral Hero offers itself to the ancient stream of humanity.

Neutral Hero is theater. Undertaking the utterly impossible feat of portraying neutrality, Neutral Hero employs the fundamental properties- text, movement, and music, to continue to define what a new contract could mean between performers and audience.

Performers: Lakpa Bhutia, Janet Coleman, Keith Connolly, Alex Delinois, Bob Feldman, Jean Ann Garrish, Rosie Goldensohn, Paige Martin; James Moore; Philip Moore; Andie Springer; Andrew Weisell.

Production:
Kunstenfestivaldesarts

Executive production:
New York City Players

Neutral Hero was made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Neutral Hero is produced in New York by New York City Players and The Kitchen.

Neutral Hero is a co-production of the Wiener Festwochen, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Les Spectacles vivants - Centre Pompidou (Paris), Kampnagel (Hamburg), Hebbel am Ufer/HAU (Berlin), Théâtre de l’Agora, Scène Nationale d’Evry et de l’Essonne, Festival TransAmériques (Montréal), De Internationale Keuze van de Rotterdamse Schouwburg, La Bâtie - Festival de Genève, Théâtre Garonne (Toulouse).

Photo: © New York City Players

October 18–December 1, 2012

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Press Coverage:

Neutral Hero makes Hilton Als' best of 2012 theatre list
–The New Yorker

The finest work to date from the experimental auteur Richard Maxwell, this coming-of-age story suggested an improbable hybrid of “Our Town” and “The Odyssey.” And like the Broadway musical “Once,” it made startlingly inventive use of song.
–The New York Times

"Maxwell’s performers, speaking in a flat, generally affectless way, had real bodies and thus real souls, which meant that the director’s beautiful text—his fullest and grandest so far—was and wasn’t fully “embodied,” but I think that was the point: to show how one doesn’t and doesn’t match words to bodies in the landscape of dreams."
–The New Yorker

"In “Neutral Hero,” the remarkable new play that opened on Tuesday night at the Kitchen, Mr. Maxwell is hunting for the epic in the Everyday."
–The New York Times