Edgar Oliver has been a fixture of the downtown New York theatre scene for over three decades. Axis Theatre Company has served as an incubator and theatrical home for this beloved performer, poet and storyteller. In deep collaboration with Axis Theatre Company founder Randy Sharp, Oliver has created a body of work that Hilton Als of The New Yorker has described as “so beautiful—so enthralling in its undisguised but never tedious self-absorption, in its command of the spoken word, and in its demand for love.”
But how did Edgar begin his epic life as a performer? When he was twenty-three, he found the Pyramid Club. This long-gone ghost of Avenue A became a home for all artists and outcasts, and the first stage Edgar ever performed on in the city. In the dark recesses of this magic theatre Edgar found the voice that brought all the sorrow and glory, the solitude and companionship of his early life into the hearts of his audience. The Pyramid Club created the beautiful, heart-broken and triumphant person he is today.
Rip Tide will be performed with live, original music by Paul Carbonara that mirrors the strange and complex world of The Pyramid Club and Edgar’s place in it.
