Laboratory Theater's

Seven Deadly Pleasures

Extended for TWO MORE PERFORMANCES!!

September 5 - 6

9 pm

Tickets : $ 7 (still only $1 a pleasure)

Reservations : 212-592-4644

The Review in the New York Press

  Directed by Yvan Greenberg, Seven Deadly Pleasures juxtaposes the clichéd trappings of the lounge act with elements of German Expressionism. Corey Dargel and Sheila Donovan play Heinrich and Elsa, German lounge performers who have been "exiled" from Berlin due to a Milli Vanilli-esque scandal. The piece includes original pop-cabaret songs by Corey Dargel with lyrics based on poems by Goethe, dance sequences tinged with the stylings of Mary Wigman and Pina Bausch, and banter which draws equally on stand-up comedy and the writings of Herman Hesse and Georg Buchner.

The Laboratory Theater is a Brooklyn-based experimental theater ensemble dedicated to collaborating on the creation of original, interdisciplinary work for the theater. Since forming in 2001, they have performed at Dixon Place, HERE, Judson Church, WOW Café Theater, Raw Space, Low (the bar below Rice), and The Performing Garage. Eva Yaa Asantewaa of the Village Voice has lauded "the talented trio's smooth integration of movement and acting," and Alisa Solomon has praised Seven Deadly Pleasures, as "ironic, weird, experimental, anti-dramatic, and compelling work… [which] produces a forceful pitch of fear - for the safety of the actors as they carom around the stage and for the future of a form that had always seemed so undemanding…"

Core Ensemble:
Yvan Greenberg (artistic director) has danced with the Walter Thompson Orchestra and Mad Science Productions and is currently an administrator and graphic designer with The Wooster Group.
Corey Dargel writes and performs original Karaoke songs in collaboration with video artist Duckless. He studied with Pauline Oliveros and John Luther Adams and has collaborated with Eve Beglarian, David Dorfman, K. Terumi Shorb, Brian Chase of The Yeah Yeah Yeahs and others.
Sheila Donovan is the lead singer of the post-punk band Tall Boys. Shelia "carries the band…radiating demonic charm at the mic" writes Cathy Hong in the Village Voice. She trained at the Moscow Art Theatre and has performed with the Brooklyn Pageant Project, a touring summer theater company.