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Old Paper Houses

First Preview: Feb 17, 2015
Opening Date: Feb 27, 2015
Closing Date: Mar 14, 2015
Running Time: 01:20
Old Paper Houses

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Playing @
Irondale Center
85 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Created by Piehole with texts by Bernadette Mayer
Directed by Tara Ahmadinejad


In New England, the winter is five months long. Everybody eats beans, the pipes always freeze, and everything's buried under six feet of snow. Moving from dreary 1970s New England to an 1840s Transcendental utopia and beyond, Old Paper Houses follows a group of wavering idealists searching for meaning and purpose in all the wrong places.

Combining paper dioramas, ecstatic small-town parades, live feed projection, and poetry by Bernadette Mayer, Old Paper Houses cycles through faith and doubt to ask: how do we continue to find things to believe in, even when it's really, really cold?

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
MONDAY & TUESDAY, THURSDAY thru SATURDAY @ 7:30 PM
SATURDAY @ 3 PM
RegionalPerformance ArtPlay - DramaRegional
Show Notes: No Intermission
Age Guidance: 13

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$15.00 - $18.00

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$15 - Students -w/ valid student ID 

Accessibility

  • Elevator/Escalator

    None available
  • Parking

    Irondale does not have a parking lot; however, there are numerous public parking lots.
  • Restroom

    Accessible restrooms in Lobby only
  • Telephone

    None on premises
  • Water Fountain

    None available.
  • Wheelchair Info

    Irondale is located on the second floor; however we are ADA compliant with a handicapped entrance and restrooms located in the lobby. There is no elevator, but there is a Handi-lift that can carry up to 450 pounds. The balcony is not wheelchair accessible.

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