Bessie Award-winning and New York Live Arts’ Stryker/Ranjelovic Resident Commissioned Artist Okwui Okpokwasili presents the culmination of her two-year residency at Live Arts with the New York Premiere of Poor People’s TV Room.
The piece is informed by two historic incidents in Nigeria: The Women’s War of 1929, a resistance movement against British colonial powers, and the Boko Haram kidnappings of more than 300 girls that launched the Bring Back Our Girls movement.
Created in collaboration with director/visual designer Peter Born, the piece will be performed by a multi-generational ensemble, featuring movement, song and text influenced by dystopian folklore, speculative fiction, Igbo cosmology and the futures and commodities markets
Show Finder
Okwui Okpokwasili:Poor People's TV Room
First Preview: Apr 12, 2017
Opening Date: Apr 19, 2017
Closing Date: Apr 30, 2017
Running Time: 01:10
Playing @
New York Live Arts
219 West 19th Street, New York City, NY 10011
Show Notes: No Intermission
Age Guidance: 13
Performance Schedule
WEDNESDAY thru SATURDAY @ 7:30 PM
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Full-price tickets:
$15.00 - $25.00
Accessibility
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Box Office
Lobby level; accessible -
Restroom
The ground floor restrooms and theater are wheelchair accessible. -
Elevator/Escalator
Elevator to all floors -
Telephone
None on premises -
Entrance
The lobby is accessible via the double doors to the left of the revolving door at 219 W 19th Street. -
Wheelchair Info
The first floor lobby is a communal public space and wheelchair accessible via the street facing double doors next to the main entrance at 219 W 19th Street. Theater, dressing rooms and 3rd floor studios are accessible by elevator. Restrooms throughout the building and theater are wheelchair accessible. -
Folding Armrests
None available -
Parking
Street parking only -
Water Fountain
Lobby level; wheelchair accessible
