When: April 25 — May 19
Where: Torn Page, 435 W 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011
Price: $25–60; 18+
Tags: #sitespecific, #intimate, #salon, #MobilityAdvisory (see below)
Dancing as a young man in Europe, Paul Swan was billed as “The Most Beautiful Man in the World”. Decades later, as an old man still wearing the same revealing neo-Classical costumes, he looked into Andy Warhol’s camera and declared, “I am the most famous unknown person in New York.”
Playwright Claire Kiechel has a personal stake in Paul Swan; he is her great-great uncle. And in Paul Swan Is Dead and Gone, she resurrects her ancestor’s salon and reimagines it as a charged theatrical space where the forces of life, death, and art do battle. Each night, the Civilians’ production offers a small audience an intimate, immersive salon experience. As audience members cross the threshold into a Chelsea brownstone, they are transported to the aesthetic world of Swan’s creation brought to life.
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Contact Level: None
Content Advisories: The performance takes place inside on the 2nd floor of a historic Chelsea townhouse. There is no elevator.
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