Eric Bogosian: (100) Monologues
Performances through October 25,
2013
Bank Street Theater, 155 Bank
Street, New York, NY
Labyrinth Theater Company/labtheater.org
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| Eric Bogosian (photo: Monique Carboni) |
As a monologist, Eric Bogosian currently
has no peer. For two decades (from 1980 to 2000), in seminal shows like Sex Drugs and Rock’n’Roll, Pounding Nails in
My Forehead and Wake Up and Smell the
Coffee, Bogosian created and inhabited many varied and compellingly
original characters: a homeless man on a subway, a divorced father with anger
issues, a drug dealer a little too enthusiastic about sharing his stash with a
customer, a self-help guru who insists that the way to eternal happiness is
becoming filthy rich.
Although he also wrote the full-length
plays Suburbia and Talk Radio, Bogosian will always be thought
of—even more so than Anna Deavere Smith and Spalding Gray—as a solo performer
whom audiences are entertained and enlightened by, even as he uncovers the darker
side of the American psyche.
In celebration of his new book, a
collection of his work titled (100) Monologues,
Bogosian returns to the stage to do what he does best: he will read from and
perform an assortment of his “greatest hits”—the selections change from show to
show—in a special limited engagement at the Bank Street Theater. Although he
has become a terrific actor in movies and on television, Bogosian back onstage
alone is always a good thing.
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