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FITTERMAN & PLACE PRESENT: THE BEDBUG VARIATIONS

March 27th 2011 · 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
ZINC BAR 82 W.3rd Street NYC

ROBERT FITTERMAN AND VANESSA PLACE PRESENT:

THE BEDBUG VARIATIONS (from a play by Vladmir Mayakovsky)

The Bedbug begins outside a state-owned department store in a typical Russian city. Peddlers walk up and down the theater aisles hawking buttons, apples, balloons, underwear, and so on. Ivan Prisypkin enters, enthralled with the variety of merchandise for sale. Ivan is an ordinary worker, recently enfranchised by the 1917 Revolution. Anxious to possess goods, he buys ignorantly, comically mistaking brassieres for "aristocratic bonnets." His future mother-in-law Rosalie tries to restrain his extravagance, but her neighbor Oleg assures her that workers are now...
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This will be a bit like that.

Featuring:

Matvei Yankelevich—as Ivan Prisypkin (Pierre), former party member, fiance of...

Kim Rosenfield—as Elzevir Davidovna Renaissance, manicurist/cashier at beauty parlour

Kristen Gallagher—as Rosalie Pavlovna Renaissance, her mother

Eugene Ostashevsky—as Oleg Bard, eccentric house-owner

SaraWintz—as Zoya Beryozkina, a working-girl

Steven Zultanski—as Barefoot Youth

Joseph Kaplan—as Mechanic

Barbara Browning—as Girl

Chris Alexander—as Inventor


Music by Franklin Bruno (piano) & Leo (drum)

Video by Steve Giasson

Directed by Robert Fitterman & Vanessa Place

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