FELDMAN AND THE INFINITE (performance excerpt 2)

In 1975, Joseph Feldman, a 58-year-old lawyer in New York City, was discovered to have stolen 15,000 books from the New York Public Library.

He had rented two or three apartments in the West Village specifically to store these books, and it took 20 men, 7 truckloads over 3 days to remove them all.

Books covered the stove.
Books filled the bathtub and sinks.
There was only a small passageway leading through the apartment, not room enough to live.

But why did he do it ?

Was he obsessively hoarding ?
Making a political statement ?
Making conceptual art ?
Or was he simply, as he told the judge who tried his case, reading ?

There are no accidents...

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FELDMAN AND THE INFINITE
A PLAY BY ERIKA MIJLIN

Feldman and the Infinite is a new play that speculates about Feldmans motives, about seeking knowledge and enlightenment, and finding what appears to be randomness and chaos.

Feldman turns to his landlord, and his new acquaintance, the sculptor Christo, for guidance through the maze of his own obsession - told with humor, passion, and love for the library and its contents.


First performed :
Artifact Pictures Studios
Philadelphia Fringe Festival
Sept 11-13, 2008

DOCUMENTATION :
Julie Goldstein / eilujion

CAST
Feldman : Jerry Perna
Christo : Ted Borodaeff
Apeiron (The Landlord) : Jeffrey Adam Baxt

WEBSITES

emijlin.wordpress.com
www.artifactpictures.com

Category:

Film & Animation

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